OR Circulating Nurse

Overview:

• Ability to circulate OR different service cases/procedures.
• Able to work long, and at times, flexible hours.
• Demonstrates manual dexterity, hearing acuity, and verbal ability.
• Displays ability for standing for extended periods of time, walking, lifting, bending, and stooping for most of the workday.
• Involves exposure to blood/body fluids, hazardous material, radiations and communicable diseases.
• Able to deal with frustration and stress appropriately. Remains calm under pressure.

Responsibilities:

• Communicates effectively with a wide range of age groups, ethnic, educational and socioeconomic backgrounds.
• Demonstrates physical assessment skills. Displays effective organizational skills, with the ability to prioritize with accuracy and speed.
• Illustrates efficient computer skills within service provided.
• Shows effective problem solving and can develop critical thinking skills. Maintains clinical and professional competency levels required of age-specific populations.
• Must be an effective team-oriented nurse, assisting and mentoring others to facilitate patient and/or customer satisfaction.
• Able to identify appropriate staffing, supply, maintenance, and equipment needs and adjust as necessary with budgetary guidelines.
• Able to serve as a positive role model, be flexible/open to change, function effectively under pressure.
• Collaborates with Assistant Nurse Managers to complete evaluations/counseling/ disciplinary actions.
• Effectively and professionally communicates with other staff, physicians, shift supervisors and ancillary departments.

Qualifications:

• Current North Carolina RN license or RN multi-state licensure privilege through the Nurse Licensure Compact required.
• BSN preferred. To develop and maintain a highly educated registered nursing staff to meet the present and future demands of the nursing profession, employees who begin employment with FirstHealth of the Carolinas in a position that requires a registered nurse must have a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree within five (5) years of their employment date.
• Minimum of two years OR experience required.
• BCLS required.
• CNOR preferred.