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Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate nursing interventions and patient care plans for surgical patients.
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Provide patient care in accordance with established standards of care, practice, protocols, and policies.
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Collaborate effectively with surgeons, anesthesiologists, clinical coordinators, and surgical technicians to ensure optimal patient well-being during surgical interventions.
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Maintain and oversee sterile fields, ensuring correct care, handling, and sterilization of supplies and instruments.
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Verify patient identification, consent forms, operative procedure, and site prior to transfer to the operating room.
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Apply principles of aseptic practice, overseeing the selection and preparation of supplies, equipment, and instrumentation for all surgical cases.
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Utilize principles of body mechanics for safe patient positioning and transfer.
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Ensure all techniques and practices during surgical procedures adhere to perioperative practice standards.
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Perform and maintain accurate sponge, needle, and instrument counts according to policy, communicating results to the surgeon.
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Identify, label, care for, and handle all specimens and cultures per established policy and procedure.
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Safely administer medications and intravenous therapy as per physician's orders and protocols.
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Conduct thorough and timely documentation of all pertinent data, interventions, and patient responses.
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Provide timely and comprehensive patient reports to ensure continuity of care.
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Educate patients and families based on identified learning needs and barriers.
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Proactively identify risks to patient safety and contribute to error reduction initiatives.
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Actively engage in and monitor compliance with hand hygiene practices.
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Clinical Skills: Perioperative nursing care, aseptic technique, sterile field management, surgical instrument handling, patient positioning and transfer, medication administration, IV therapy, pain assessment and management, patient assessment, care planning, discharge planning, specimen handling.
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Equipment: Surgical instruments, sterile supplies.
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Soft Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication, strong organizational skills, ability to multitask and prioritize in a dynamic environment, critical thinking, problem-solving, teamwork and collaboration, attention to detail, adaptability, patient advocacy, professional demeanor.
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Call Requirements: Not specified.
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Weekend Rotations: Not specified.
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Contract Length: 13 weeks
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Start Date: September 21, 2026
