OPERATING ROOM - RN - Full-time - Days

As part of the Operating Room (OR) Newport Beach, you'll give direct inpatient nursing care as per the California Nurse Practice Act, and in support of the mission of the Patient Care Services Division. Being a Hoag Clinical Nurse I means serving our community by using research and evidence-based outcomes, incorporating perioperative care modalities, and collaborating with members of your team to offer the highest level of care to those who depend on us.\n\nHoag Newport Beach OR features 18 beds and offers a nurse to patient ratio of 1 : 1. You will serve the pediatric, adult and geriatric population requiring surgical or procedural intervention, as well as those patients in maternal health. As RN you may care for patients requiring the following service : Neurosurgery, Orthopedic, General, Gynecology, EENT (Eyes, ears, nose & throat), Gastroenterology, Plastic, Hepatobiliary, Thoracic, Vascular, and Urology. Patients may require inpatient or outpatient surgeries in multi-specialties with acuity levels ranging from healthy to elective and / or emergent, to critical and / or end of life.\n\nOther duties may include : \n\n

• Assessing and documenting a complete physical assessment, nursing interventions, and teaching and discharge needs for patients assigned to each shift, utilizing documentation guidelines, Standards of Care and Pathway goals.\n\n
• Communicating changes in the patient's condition to the Charge Nurse / Supervisor and the physician directing care, as well as pertinent information at shift report using the patient Plan of Care (POC).\n\n
• Providing continuity of care through the implementation and utilization of the POC.\n\n
• Responding to emergency situations in a timeframe appropriate to the needs of each patient.\n\n
• Administering medications and intravenous therapy with the ability to assess the appropriate indication dosing and effects of the medication administered.\n\n
• Assessing the educational ability / level for the patient, incorporating available educational material into patient / significant other teaching and documenting understanding in the patient record.