(Archived) Registered Nurse (RN) – Operating Room

Contract position with a Spring 2019 start date. Position contingent on contract award. Incumbents highly encourage to contact us. Come join our team of healthcare professionals!

Registered Nurse (RN) - Operating Room in Biloxi, Mississippi.

The Registered Nurse (RN) - Operating Room job is within the military medical system and is a civilian position. Civilian and military personnel work together in the extensive military medical system. The hospitals and medical clinics provide services to the active duty military service members, military retirees, and their families and provide a full range of medical services.

Our employees are our best assets! Come join our team of healthcare professionals where you are valued.

• Fantastic PTO accrual rate
• Competitive Compensation
• Benefit Package (health, dental, and vision plans)

Registered Nurse (RN) - Operating Room Job Overview:

• Ability to maintain composure and react appropriately while relating to patients, families, physicians, coworkers and ancillary staff; manage distraught, irritable, unreasonable or angry individuals; and, maintain positive rapport with all individuals involved in patient care.
• Knowledge of a wide range of medical disorders and conditions as appropriate and seen in critically ill patient.
• Knowledge of professional care theories, principles, practices, and procedures to perform nursing assignments of critically ill patients.
• Demonstrates knowledge of growth and development, and pathophysiology of disease processes specific to the critical care unit population to include all ages from adult to geriatrics.
• Assess patients' conditions for potential or life-threatening crises. Distinguish between normal and abnormal physical findings (from physical assessment and vital sign assessment). Plan appropriate nursing care. Notify physician if needed and carry out appropriate interventions as ordered.
• Identify impending or existing emotional or psychiatric crisis and provide appropriate intervention.
• Ability to react with alertness and skill in any emergency situation, (e.g., cardiac or respiratory arrest, hemorrhage, shock, severe physical trauma and psychiatric reaction). Serves as member of the Rapid Response Team (RRT) and Code Blue resuscitation/response team.
• Reassess patient's condition and revise plan of care based on identified nursing problems.
• Assess patient/family knowledge level, implement plan of instructions and record patient/family demonstrated level of understanding.
• Implement the Nursing process (assessment, planning, diagnosis, intervention and evaluation) to include holistic approach.
• Effectively communicates and collaborates with a diverse group of people for the purpose of informing the healthcare team of plans/actions, for teaching/education to benefit the patient/family and organization. Effectively uses appropriate communication format in addressing professional issues.
• Utilize appropriate nursing personnel to assist in delivery of care when indicated (LPN's/paraprofessionals).
• Transcribe or verify transcription of physician orders.
• Carry out prescribed physician orders and document in patient medical record.
• Communicate pertinent patient data to charge nurse and/or physician as appropriate.
• Reassess patient's condition and revise plan of care based on identified nursing problems.
• Administer prescribed critical care medications to include multiple critical care medication drips and intravenous push drugs.
• Assess and document patient response to medications administered.
• Care for patients with a variety of monitors.
• Demonstrate use and operation of defibrillator to include emergency defibrillator.
• Care of patients on ventilators to include knowledge of the modes of ventilation, Ventilator Associated Pneumonia Bundle.
• Be able to initiate life saving measures in the absence of a physician.
• Operate infusion pumps, enteral feeding pumps, and Patient Controlled Analgesia pumps, epidural pumps, electronic thermometers, and wound-vacs.

Registered Nurse (RN) - Operating Room Job Qualifications:

• BLS
• ACLS
• ADN
• Graduate of nursing program accredited by NLNAC or CCNE
• One year of experience in comparable setting after graduation
  
• Demonstrated clinical competency within the past two years in comparable setting
• RN Licensure/Registration: Active, full and unrestricted.