Tidelands Health

Nurse

• Prepare patients for surgery and address their concerns
• Ensure the operating room is sterile and secure necessary supplies and instruments
• Hand medical supplies to attending surgeons during operations
• Monitor patients' physical and emotional well-being throughout the care continuum
• Observe patient vital signs
• Inform the attending surgeon of issues and anomalies
• Provide nursing care based on AORN standards of care and professional nursing practice
• Be accountable for outcomes of nursing care delivered

Registered Nurse

• Assess patients and perform comprehensive vascular evaluations to select the most appropriate vascular access device
• Insert and maintain PICCs, Midlines, extended-dwell peripheral catheters, and ultrasound-guided peripheral IVs
• Verify catheter placement, patency, and function according to organizational policy and standards of practice
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and recommend management of infection, thrombosis, infiltration, and catheter malfunction
• Educate patients and families about vascular access devices, care, and complication prevention
• Apply infection-prevention standards for catheter insertion, maintenance, dressing integrity, and device care
• Serve as a vascular access resource and collaborate with physicians, nursing, case management, infusion services, home health agencies, and interdisciplinary partners
• Respond to difficult-access and escalation requests while prioritizing consults and patient-care needs
• Maintain electronic medical record documentation and track procedural data, outcomes, complications, and quality metrics
• Support quality-improvement activities and audits
• Maintain ultrasound equipment, insertion supplies, cleaning processes, inspections, and inventory

Registered Nurse

Vascular Access Insertion Nurse