<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif">OR RN II</span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif"> </span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif">Position Objective:</span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif">The Registered Nurse in surgery provides expert, professional nursing care to patients during the perioperative course. The RN assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates the care of patients throughout surgical intervention. The RN in surgery will supervise Operating Room Technicians and ancillary personnel. The primary responsibility of the RN will be to perform the duties of a circulator in the Operating Room. The RN may also be competent in the role of a scrub nurse and perform the duties of that role, as staffing requires.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif"> </span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif">Job Responsibilities:</span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif">Clinical Decision-Making / Judgment</span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif">The nurse applies expert clinical knowledge to ensure safe and effective perioperative care. Responsibilities include:</span></p><ul style="margin-top: 0in"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif">Assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating patient care throughout the surgical experience.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif">Performing comprehensive preoperative assessments, including verification of the procedure, operative site, allergies, and risk factors.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif">Applying the nursing process effectively with attention to patient safety, sterile technique, and evidence-based standards.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif">Organizing and reprioritizing patient care based on clinical changes and environmental factors.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif">Monitoring patients intraoperatively, including EKG, vital signs, and sedation levels, and responding promptly to emergent situations such as codes or airway compromise.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif">Administering medications, managing pain, and performing unit-specific technical skills (e.g., moderate sedation, hemodynamic monitoring).</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif">Ensuring aseptic technique, accurate sponge and needle counts, and specimen handling per protocol.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif">Preparing and positioning patients safely for procedures.</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif">Nurse–Patient Family Relationships</span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif">The nurse fosters therapeutic relationships with patients and families to promote trust, comfort, and learning. Responsibilities include:</span></p><ul style="margin-top: 0in"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif">Introducing self and role to the patient and family in the preoperative area, assuring the patient of nursing presence throughout the procedure.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif">Demonstrating compassion, professionalism, and cultural sensitivity in all interactions.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif">Assessing patient and family learning needs, readiness, and potential barriers to understanding.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif">Developing and implementing individualized teaching plans that address physical, psychosocial, spiritual, and educational needs.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif">Providing thorough and accurate handoff reports to PACU staff to ensure continuity of care.</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif">Clinical Scholarship</span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif">The