Resource Person | OR | Orthopaedic Surgery Center (OSC) bei Crhc

Summary

Under the direction of the Orthopaedic Surgery Center Director, the Resource Person performs the duties and responsibilities of charge nurse for the patient populations served in the Orthopaedic Surgery Center. The Resource Person is assigned to assist in assuring a patient/family focused environment. The Resource Person demonstrates high standards of quality patient care and holds care providers accountable to clinical and service standards. The Resource Person demonstrates and coaches others to utilize critical thinking skills. He/she implements and evaluates systems that promote cost effective, quality patient care. He/she is a front line member of the management team. The Resource Person is responsible for supporting and assisting in the delivery of quality patient care and professional nursing practice.

Education

Graduate from an accredited Nursing program required. Bachelor's degree (BSN) from four-year college or university preferred.

Certification, Registration & Licensure

Certification required to obtain: Basic Life support and ACLS certification within 3 months of hire

Licensure required: Current New Hampshire State Registered Nurse license.

Experience

Minimum of 3 years of acute care clinical experience in perioperative/perianesthesia nursing, with demonstrated clinical proficiency. Previous supervisory/leadership experience desired.

Responsibilities

• Participates, engages and promotes positive activities for the centers.

• Promotes a safe, therapeutic, customer-friendly environment and provides services that are delivered in a

  professional, compassionate manner.

• Assists in the oversight of clinical nursing care, ensuring compliance with established standards of care

  and practice.

• Manages patient care and transitions across the continuum.

• Participates in the recruitment, retention, nurturing, evaluation and development staff.

• Assists in the planning, administering, and accounting for human, material, and educational resources as

  well as systems and processes to effectuate care and services.

• Assists in monitoring, evaluating and improving quality of care and services provided.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

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Physical and Work Requirements

The physical demands and characteristics of the work environment described here are representative of those that will be encountered by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The Dictionary of Occupational Titles Material Handling Classification is MEDIUM. The employee must regularly lift, carry or push/pull up to 10 pounds, frequently lift, carry or push/pull up to 10 - 25 pounds, and occasionally lift, carry or push/pull up to 20 - 50 pounds.

The employee is frequently required to bend, hear, speak, and walk. The employee is occasionally required to climb, kneel, perform activities that require fine motor skills, reach, sit, smell, squat, and stand.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include color vision, depth perception, far vision, near vision, and peripheral vision.

The employee is frequently exposed to bodily fluids. The employee is occasionally exposed to airborne contaminants, airborne pathogens, bloodborne pathogens, electrical hazards - shock, moving mechanical parts, non-weather related heat or cold, radiation, slippery surfaces, and variable weather conditions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.