Registered Nurse - Operating Room - Surgical Services - Bayfront Health

Position Summary:Qualifications:Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates critical knowledge, skills, and judgement to care for patients requiring complex assessment and therapies, highintensity interventions, and high-level continuous nursing vigilance.
• Utilizes information and assessment data to anticipate and respond with confidence and adapt to rapidly changing patient

conditions.

• Monitors and adjusts specialized equipment used on patients, and interprets and records electronic displays, such as intracranial
• Identifies and prioritizes information to take immediate and decisive evidence-based, patient focused action.

pressures, central venous pressures, pulmonary artery pressures, and cardiac rhythms from cardiac monitors, respirators,
ventilators, oxygen pumps, etc.

• Responds to life-saving situations based on nursing standards and protocol.
• Observes, monitors, and assesses patients’ condition, recognizes, identifies, and interprets serious situations and calls Physician or

takes preplanned emergency measures when Physician is not immediately available.

• Assesses patient’s needs and develops/revises an individualized plan of care based on patient needs and responses. Evaluates the

patient’s progress toward attaining expected outcomes.

• Functions as a patient and family advocate.
• Respects diversity by building respectful relationships with all team members and customers.
• Demonstrates advanced knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served on his or her

assigned unit/ department.

• Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span, assesses the data reflective of the
• Communicates and collaborates with medical staff and interdisciplinary team to effectively plan and manage the unit/department.
• Serves as a role model for staff and supports the hospital and nursing department’s goals and strategies.
• Serves as a preceptor, charge nurse, unit educator, and/ or nurse clinician.

patient’s status, and interprets the necessary information needed to identify each patient’s requirements relative to his or her agespecific needs.

• Documents patient care in a knowledgeable, skillful, and consistent manner meeting all required and regulatory standards. This
• Coordinates the care and delegates as appropriate to other team members on a defined group of patients.

includes but is not limited to patient assessment, education, medication administration, treatments, and patient safety.

• Demonstrates competency in nursing skills and use of patient care/unit equipment as defined by unit/department-specific requisite

skills.

• Practices effective problem identification and resolution.
• Prioritizes patient care in an ongoing manner in accordance with Evidence-Based Practice Standards of Care.
• Delegates tasks and duties to healthcare team members in accordance with the patient’s needs and the team member’s

capabilities and qualifications.

• Demonstrates awareness of legal issues and patients’ rights.
• Collaborates with the education department and nursing leadership team to effectively transition and support new team members
• Communicates appropriate information regarding patient condition or unit concerns to other health care team members.
• Demonstrates caring practices by providing a compassionate and therapeutic environment for patients and their families.

and/or students.

• Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies, the ADA, FMLA, and other federal,

state, and local standards.

• Maintains compliance with all Orlando Health policies and procedures