Clinical Nurse - Operating Room
Company: Howard University Hospital
Location: Washington
Posted on: May 16, 2022
Job Description:
Job DescriptionWith over 150 years of caring for our community
and each other in the Washington DC area, Howard University
Hospital has a world-renowned reputation for high-quality,
patient-centric care. Howard University Hospital is the nation's
only teaching hospital located on the campus of a Historically
Black University and has created a superior learning environment,
with groundbreaking research and positive patient outcomes. Howard
University Hospital seeks to hire a Clinical Registered Nurse for
our Operating Room who will embrace our reach and historic
tradition of excellence. If you want to make a difference in
someone's life every day, consider a position with a team of
professionals who are doing just that, making a difference. Being a
teaching hospital, we are education driven and willing to
train!
Required shifts:
- Three 12-hour days (0630-1900)
- On-call and weekendsThe Operating Room Clinical Nurse:
- Collaborates with patient/family and health care team to
determine health goals and interventions and to revise plans of
care as needed
- Maintains awareness of the unit's periodic statistics regarding
core measures, nursing quality indicators, customer satisfaction
measures, and actively participates in activities/behaviors that
progressively improve the statistics
- Provides nursing care consistent with the nursing practice
standards, policies and procedures established by the unit,
department, division, and institution, professional ethics and
standards, and legal requirements
- Serves in the rotational role of charge nurse upon completion
of the 6 month orientation period, and with approval by the nurse
manager
- Participates in unit performance improvement programs through
ongoing design, assessment and measurement, and performance
improvement activities
- Identifies patient care requirements by establishing personal
rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a
position to understand care requirements
- Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional,
psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and
families
- Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care
goals; teaching patient, friends, and family to understand
condition, medications, and self-care skills; answering
questions
- Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards;
measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards;
making or recommending necessary adjustments; following hospital
and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care set by
Nurse Practice Act of the District of Columbia, and other governing
agency regulations
- Protects patients and employees by adhering to
infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration
and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations
- Maintains nursing supplies inventory by checking stock to
determine inventory level; anticipating needed supplies; placing
and expediting orders for supplies; verifying receipt of supplies;
using equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish job
results
- Demonstrates competency in clinical skills, bedside manner,
infection control, physiological knowledge, administering
medication, medical teamwork, multi-tasking, listening, verbal
communication, health promotion and maintenanceQualified candidates
will possess:
- Associates Degree in Nursing Required.
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing preferred.
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
- Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in the
District of Columbia.
- Maintains active American Heart Association Basic Life Support
BLS certification
- Maintains active American Heart Association Advanced
Cardiovascular Life Support ACLS certification
- CNOR preferred
- At least 12 months acute care experience in hospital-based
nursing, OR scrub experience not required At Howard University
Hospital our job is to care for you. We do this by offering:
- Work-life balance
- Recognition and rewards for professional expertise
- Competitive, comprehensive benefit plans offered (including
health, disability, vacation and sick leave and 403B retirement
plan)
- 100% free tuition to attend Howard University for you and/or
your dependent childrenCOVID-19 Vaccination Howard University
Hospital requires all external applicants to be fully vaccinated
for COVID-19 before commencing employment. External Applicants may
be required to furnish proof of vaccination and, if offered, may
elect to be vaccinated at a designated Howard University Hospital
location.
Keywords: Howard University Hospital, Washington DC , Clinical Nurse - Operating Room, Healthcare , Washington, DC
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