Job Description

Mission statement

Superior health care and exceptional service for each person, every time.

Vision

To be a vibrant and thriving five-star center for health, serving as our community's first choice for health and wellness.

Our C.A.R.E. Values

• Compassion - I will treat everyone with kindness, acceptance, empathy, and understanding.
• Accountability - I will be trustworthy, responsible, and dependable while taking ownership of my actions.
• Respect - I will value the feelings, wishes, rights, and traditions of everyone without judgment.
• Excellence - I will strive to understand and exceed the expectations of others.

Benefits

Medical Insurance

Dental

Vision 

Health Savings Account

Flex Spending Account/Dependent Care Spending Account

Hospital Indemnity

Life Insurance- Employer Paid

Long-Term Disability/ Short-Term Disability-Employer paid

Voluntary Life & AD&D

MASA- Medical Transportation Solutions

403 (b) Retirement Plan- up to 4% employer contribution

Earned Time Off

Extended Illness Bank-Hospital contribution

Free 24-hour fitness center

JOB DESCRIPTION: Perioperative Registered Nurse- Outpatient Surgery

• Full-time- Days (May be eligible for Sign on Bonus)

Evaluate, plan, implement, and document nursing care given to the patients. Function within the Kansas Nurse Practice Act, to deliver comprehensive, family centered nursing care to all patients.

Essential Functions/Accountabilities:

1.    Reports to OR Nurse Manager.

2.    Works as a team with co-workers to manage the workload and patient volumes.

 Principal Accountabilities:

1.    Coordinate the surgical patients care in the perioperative setting.

2.    Assess patient understanding of plan of care, to better facilitate opportunities and materials during hospital stay, working towards dismissal from admission.

3.    Follows established protocols for narcotic and other medication administration ensuring the 5 rights of medication administration are met.

4.    Communicates pertinent information related to patients’ condition to inform doctors, additional staff nurses and/or ancillary departments of patients’ needs and/or plan of care.

5.    Document concerns, findings, and actions, implementing appropriate care plans related to patients’ diagnosis for continuity of care.

6.    Assess patients’ conditions, continuously monitoring changes in status, physical findings, vital signs, coping skills ensuring appropriate care is given related to patients needs.

 Department Specific Accountabilities:

1.    Performs and documents admissions, dismissal, and intermittent nursing assessments as appropriate per policy and patient needs.

2.    Assess patient risk and initiate measures to prevent unplanned perioperative hypothermia to maintain normothermia in a range from 36oC-38oC (96.8oF-100.4oF).

3.    Manage patients’ postoperative nausea and vomiting to prevent prolonged postoperative stay and unanticipated admission.

4.    Manage Patients postoperative pain and comfort to prevent prolonged postoperative stay and unanticipated admission.