Company Description
Holy Cross Health is a Hospital & Health Care institute that was founded in 1963 and headquartered in Silver Spring, MD. They have the vision to rehabilitate the patients quickly through their state-of-the-art healthcare facilities. To cure and diagnose the patients, they engage their employees in offering different special services such as Seniors, Neuroscience, Gynecologic Surgery, Maternity, Joints, Cancer, and much more. They entice, enthuse, and appreciate the efforts of their employees and award them different employment benefits such as health insurance, flexible spending account 401K plan, and much more. They prefer to incorporate creative, proactive, and professional candidates who can tackle the pressing situations of the patients carefully. They recruit new employees in different domains such as marketing communication specialists, clinical researchers, major gifts officers, food service cashiers, patient registration representatives, and much more.
Job Description
Registered Nurse with Operating Room experience Circulating RN with OR experience. Will need to work variable shifts and function across all services
General Summary:
Responsible for providing and coordinating interdisciplinary patient care utilizing the nursing process in the Operating Room. Must have familiarity with a broad scope of surgical cases.
Interpretation of the patient's condition and abnormal findings are appropriately communicated to members of the interdisciplinary healthcare team, with appropriate documentation.
Effectively communicates fundamental patient/family information to health care team. Identifies and communicates variances from patient goals.
Using the Quality Caring Model, demonstrates acceptable performance and applies the nursing process to plan and manage the care of routine patients, including patient and family education and continuum of care planning.
The employee supports the Mission of CHE Trinity Health and Holy Cross Hospital.
Minimum licensure/certification required (if applicable):
Graduation from an accredited nursing program; basic professional nursing degree (BSN or MSN) preferred.
Current licensure by the Maryland State Board of Nursing or Compact State as a Registered Nurse.
BLS certification; additional Life Support training as applicable to unit requirements.
Professional specialty certifications may be required in accordance with departmental standards or role requirements.
Minimum Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities Required:
Demonstrated knowledge of nursing skills and practice in anoperating room setting
Proficiency in computer and audiovisual skills using various applications: Internet, email, word processing
Must have the ability to retrieve and interpret data, effectively read, speak, write, compose and comprehend English
Effective eye and hand coordination and the ability to analyze and synthesize information within a short period of time is a must.
Must be able to function autonomously or as part of the surgical team to effectively problem-solve, multi-task, organize and prioritize.
Working Conditions:
Physical Requirements: Ability to lift patients/patient care equipment up to 35 pounds. Must be able to push, pull, and move patients and patient care equipment. Must be able to bend body downward at the waist and be able to kneel. Must be able to utilize a computer for periods of time throughout the shift.
Visual Acuity: The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and/or operation of machines (including inspection); using measurement devices; and/or assembly at distances close to the eyes.
Auditory Acuity: Must have sufficient acuity to identify auditory alarms in noisy environments.
Environmental Conditions: The worker is subject to hazards associated with a hospital environment.
Reporting Relationship:
Reports to a manager or director
Holy Cross Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to Minority/Females/disabled/Veteran (M/F/D/V) status.