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Pre-Admission Testing Nurse – RN/LVN
Advanced Pain Care. Initiates preoperative assessment and care for pre-surgical patients using the nursing process .
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Initiates preoperative assessment and care for pre-surgical patients using the nursing process
- Performs pre-procedural testing, documents and communicates patient history
- Provides preoperative instructions and education to patients before surgery
- Discusses and arranges post-operative follow-up care
- Reviews physician orders to ensure necessary tests and preoperative labs are complete
- Evaluates and screens patients for possible complications
- Communicates with surgeons, office nursing staff, triage, scheduling and OR staff as needed
- Collaborates with team members to ensure safe and accurate patient care
- Assesses patient condition and addresses needs before and during surgery
- Maintains regular and predictable attendance
- Adheres to ADSC policies and procedures
- Performs other duties as assigned
- Reports directly to the Director of Nursing and Administrator
Requirements
What you’ll need- Graduate of an Accredited School of Nursing; LVN or RN required
- Current nursing licensure to practice in the State of Texas
- Successful completion of Basic Cardiac Life Support Course
- ACLS required
- PALS preferred
- Two years’ experience in perioperative nursing preferred
- Bilingual preferred
- Prior PAT nurse experience
- Knowledge and experience in ASC, operating room or ASC nursing care
- Competence in assessing, treating and caring for patients based on age-specific needs
- Ability to set priorities and provide direction to others that promotes efficiency on the unit
- Ability to correlate clinical data with patient’s medical and nursing care
- Effective communication and positive interpersonal skills
- Ability to maintain patient confidentiality
- Ability to transcribe physicians’ orders accurately and read labels and instructions completely
- Must be able to work as scheduled
- Good visual acuity and accurate color vision
- Ability to lift/transfer patients in excess of 100 pounds
- Ability to push a gurney with a 150-pound patient on it
- Ability to stand, walk, stop, kneel, crouch and/or crawl
- Ability to reach, grasp, use fine finger movement and feel fine sensation to discern temperature, texture, size and shape
- Ability to lift 25-pound instrument trays
- Ability to push heavy equipment on wheels within the OR suite
- Ability to wear a lead apron