Operating Room Circulating Nurse
Boulder, Colorado
RN
Posted Aug 18 · Not open to new grads
- Unit
- OR
What the listing says
Role
- Term
- Permanent
- Setting
- Ambulatory Surgery
- Accepts
- RN
- Experience
- 1+ years
Ratio not posted. Ask in the interview.
Pay
- Against the board
The median for nursing in Colorado is $37/hr, across 585 postings. It covers every nursing role in the state, so it is a bearing, not a like-for-like comparison.
About this role
Operating Room RN is a specialized field of nursing. This RN demonstrates competency and skill in perioperative nursing to ensure patient safety throughout the three stages of perioperative care while performing the following job responsibilities.
Essential Job Responsibilities with demonstrated competency
Communication of procedures and treatments with patient and significant others to gain cooperation, understanding, and trust and allay apprehension while reaching mutual consent in care approach.
Communicates patient education based on individualized needs of the patient, as requested by Physician and/or facility policy to optimize the patients preparation for surgery and continued care upon discharge.
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Directs care of the patient in accordance with physician orders, including astute assessment of patient responses to medical treatment, therapeutic response to prescribed medications, ability to recognize significant conditions and adverse reactions, and effectively communicates patient's condition, progress, and reaction to drugs, treatments, and or significant change in condition with physician, peers & family.
Obtains concurrent vital signs to detect deviations from expected normal values and assesses condition for changing patient status and independently intervenes with appropriate care.
Plans and delivers direct patient care based upon evidence based practices, facility policies, procedures, protocols or processes.
Maintains awareness of specific needs of patient including but not limited to: comfort; pain relief; anxiety relief; cultural and spiritual diversity; age specificity; verifies correct patient, procedure, side/site; protection of tissue and nerve damage by proper body positioning while under anesthesia; applies aseptic techniques for prevention of surgical site infection; hydration; thermoregulation; hemodynamics; accurate management of specimens; prevention of retained foreign objects, and burn and fire prevention and plans direct care interventions accordingly.
Verifies patient identification; patients understanding of planned procedure by cross reference to informed consent; correct procedure site, side, & supplies; allergies and other special needs before proceeding with planned procedure.
Advanced knowledge in operating/procedure room equipment, instrumentation, supplies unique to perioperative environment.
Applies experiential knowledge for making decisions specific to efficiencies and cost containment to optimize work flow and protection of business assets.
Accurately communicates continuum of direct patient care verbally and in writing within the medical record. Acknowledges medical and surgical history obtained from H&P, known allergies and physical condition by visualization. Conducts assessment and re-assessments before and following treatments, medications administered, and patient condition at time of transfer of care.
Prepares operating / procedure rooms with specific equipment, sterile instruments and supplies based on physician preferences and the accumulative knowledge based on experiences to optimize patient safety, work flow, efficiencies and cost containment strategies.
Consistently performs hand hygiene practices for the prevention of infection.
Concurrently participates in facility quality assessment and performance improvement activities identified by the organization.
Education/
Experience
Associate degree (A. A.) or equivalent from two-year accredited School of Nursing or Diploma program Baccalaureate degree (B. S.) from four-year accredited School of Nursing, preferred Current license from State Board of Nursing Current BCLS certification Current ACLS certification (to administer Moderate Sedation) Advanced knowledge in critical thinking, and applied critical care nursing practice Specialized knowledge, skill and abilities in empirical & practical perioperative nursing. Specific knowledge, skill and abilities in aseptic techniques, use and application of surgical instrumentation and specialty other equipment & supplies used for surgical or invasive procedures.
Pay: $44.00 - $48.00 per hour
Benefits
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Experience
- OR: 1 year (Required)
License/
Certification
- RN License (Required)
- BLS Certification (Required)
Work Location: In person
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Requirements
- RN
- Associate degree (A. A.) or equivalent from two-year accredited School of Nursing or Diploma program Baccalaureate degree (B.S.) from four-year accredited School of Nursing, preferred Current license from State Board of Nursing Current BCLS certification Current ACLS certification (to administer Moderate Sedation) Advanced knowledge in critical thinking, and applied critical care nursing practice Specialized knowledge, skill and abilities in empirical & practical perioperative nursing. Specific knowledge, skill and abilities in aseptic techniques, use and application of surgical instrumentation and specialty other equipment & supplies used for surgical or invasive procedures.
Place
- City
- Boulder, Colorado
- Median rent
- $2,018/mo
- Local household income
- $87,493/yr
- Metro price level
- 5% above the national average
- Address
- 4743 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
rent and tenant-paid utilities
all local households, not nurse pay
Boulder area index 105.2, where 100 is the national average.
Boulder sits where the Rocky Mountains meet the plains, offering outdoor-loving RNs world-class hiking, climbing, and cycling right outside their door. Home to the University of Colorado, this health-conscious community centers on the lively Pearl Street Mall. Expect a fit, educated population and easy access to major hospital systems along the Front Range.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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It is a surgery center, so the work sits in ambulatory care rather than on a hospital unit. We do not have ratios, the charting system, or a posted pay range for this site, and union status is unknown. If…
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Operating Room is a specialty you move into. Periop programs often train from the ground up.
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