Registered Nurse Surgery/OR

UnityPoint Health- Fort Dodge

Full-time, 32 hours per week

At UnityPoint Health, you matter. We’re proud to be recognized as a Top 150 Place to Work in Healthcare by Becker's Healthcare several years in a row for our commitment to our team members.  

Our competitive Total Rewards program offers benefits options that align with your needs and priorities, no matter what life stage you’re in.  Here are just a few:      

• Expect paid time off, parental leave, 401K matching and an employee recognition program.   

• Dental and health insurance, paid holidays, short and long-term disability and more. We even offer pet insurance for your four-legged family members.  

• Early access to earned wages with Daily Pay, tuition reimbursement to help further your career and adoption assistance to help you grow your family.   

With a collective goal to champion a culture of belonging where everyone feels valued and respected, we honor the ways people are unique and embrace what brings us together.   

And, we believe equipping you with support and development opportunities is a vital part of delivering an exceptional employment experience. 

Find a fulfilling career and make a difference with UnityPoint Health.

• Assesses and monitors total physiological, psychological, sociocultural, and spiritual needs of surgical patients from infant through geriatrics.
• Develops and maintains an individualized, professionally modified plan of care reflective of changing needs/outcomes by evaluating the patient's needs during procedure.
• Provides nursing care in accordance with nursing standards and the patient's plan of care.
• Initiates teaching appropriate to patient procedure.
• Performs circulating scrub duties according to surgery standards.
• Assists the surgeon with exposure, hemostasis, wound closure and retraction.
• Maintains aseptic technique.
• Organizes instruments and supplies on Mayo stand and back table.
• Demonstrates correct draping technique.
• Prepares operative site prep per procedure.
• Positions, supports, and/or restrains patient appropriately.
• Positions electrosurgical grounding pad.
• Performs accurate sponge, instrument and sharps count.
• Identifies and prepares medications to be administered by physician.
• Applies tourniquet cuffs to extremities.
• Handles and labels specimens correctly.
• Documents nursing care consistent with documentation guidelines.
• Communicates with other members of the healthcare team in order to ensure continuity of care and coordination of services.
• Participates in unit operations demonstrating professional behaviors to include supporting goals of Nursing unit and maintaining awareness of resource utilization.
• Participates in non-direct patient care activities including educational activities, performance improvement activities, standards development and review, hospital/nursing committees and other related activities.
• Demonstrates competent use of computer programs as appropriate.

Education:                  

Nursing/Certified RNFA Course         

Licensure:                  

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