Clinical RN

########## Position Summary: The Registered Nurse functions in the Outpatient and Main Operating Room as a staff nurse under the guidance and supervision of the Charge Nurse.# Performs routine patient care assignments and carries out established nursing procedures utilizing the nursing process and AORN Standards of Care. Education:# #Hold a current Texas permit or license as a Registered Nurse.# BSN preferred. B. Required Certifications # Training: 1. Current BLS Certification through the American Heart Association upon hire or transfer to department. 2.##### Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) through the American Heart# ## Association within 6 months of hire or transfer to department. 3.##### Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) through the American #### Heart Association within 12 months of hire or transfer to #### department. 4.##### Minimal Lift required annually. 5.##### Clinical Carnival required annually. C. Preferred Training # Certification: 1. Trauma Norse Core Curriculum (TNCC) preferred. 2.##### CNOR preferred. D. Training # Experience 1.##### One year of RN experience in acute care setting preferred. 2.##### EKG course within one year of hire or transfer to department.# 3.##### Moderate sedation competency completed within 3 months of hire# or transfer to department.# 4.##### Complete the following competencies within 3 months of hire or transfer to department.# # Aseptic technique # Gowning and gloving # Surgical hand scrub # Surgical skin prep # Electronic perioperative charting # Role of the circulator in surgical case preparation# # Role of the circulator in preoperative patient assessment # Role of the circulator in intraoperative patient care # Role of the circulator in postoperative patient care 5.#### Basic daVinci Robotic Surgery proficiency-within 1 year for# ### new hires; within 2 years of signing job description for tenured staff.