Job Title: OR
Location: Gardner, Massachusetts
Schedule: 7:00AM – 5:00PM x 4
Term: 13-week assignment with the potential for extension
Pay Rate: $62 – $67/hr
Astrya Global, a San Diego based medical staffing agency, is hiring a OR for a temporary assignment in Gardner, Massachusetts. These positions are 13-week contracts with the ability to extend.
Responsibilities for a OR:
• Conduct interactions with everyone in a friendly, courteous, and respectful manner
• Go out of way to offer assistance to others or find someone who can assist
• Advocate to ensure privacy and confidentiality while helping others maintain awareness
• Maintain a clean and safe hospital environment
• Respond appropriately and immediately in emergency situations
• Maintain a safe and healthy environment for patients, visitors, and/or staff to provide the highest level of physical comfort and minimize risk and injury
• Ensure compliance with regulations to maintain accreditation and licensure
• Comply with Hospital Attendance and Tardiness Policy
• Complete all Hospital and Department Specific Mandatory requirements
• Report incidents in a timely and effective manner
• Actively engage in the practice of, monitoring, and enforcing compliance with hand hygiene
• Assess (and reassess), plan, implement, and evaluate nursing interventions/plans of care/patient goals
• Provide patient care based on standards of care, standards of practice, protocols, and established policies and procedures
• Respect each patient as an individual and provide care that fosters the patient’s sense of dignity and positive self-regard
• Provide patient/family teaching based on identified learning needs, readiness to learn, and barriers to learning
• Collaboratively plan and prepare patient/family for discharge incorporating support systems/resources as necessary
• Appropriately delegate and supervise nursing interventions performed by others
• Appropriately prioritize patient care and seek assistance as needed from appropriate resources
• Provide thorough, timely, and accurate documentation of all pertinent data, therapeutic interventions, and patient responses according to established standards
• Provide timely and thorough report on assigned patients to other health care team members to ensure integration of services and continuity of patient care
• Promote learning for colleagues and self by functioning as preceptor, instructor, or trainer and attending professional development programs
• Proactively identify risk to patient safety and identify opportunities to reduce medical/health care errors
• Identify ethical issues in care and develop a plan to address them
• Safely administer medications and intravenous therapy in accordance with physician’s orders, protocols, policies, and procedures
• Assess patient pain level upon admission and as necessary utilizing the numerical pain scale
• Reassess effectiveness of pain control and notify physicians as needed, documenting assessment and patient responses to medication
• Obtain supporting information and complete required documentation related to medication reconciliation for use by the Attending MD
• Collaborate with surgeon, anesthesiologist, clinical coordinator, and surgical technicians to assure patient well-being during surgical intervention
• Maintain sterile fields and direct the correct care, handling, and sterilization of sterile supplies and instruments
• Identify patients correctly by checking patient identification bands and consent forms and verifying operative procedure and site before taking patients to the operating room
• Apply principles of aseptic practice and oversee the selection and preparation of supplies, equipment, and instrumentation for all surgical cases
• Apply principles of body mechanics and adapt them to various situations during positioning and transfer of patients
• Assure that all techniques and practices carried out during the surgical procedure are accurate and reflect standards of perioperative practice
• Maintain sponge, needle, and instrument counts according to policies and procedures, including notifying the surgeon of the results
• Identify, label, care for, and handle all specimens and cultures according to established policy and procedure
• Maintain current MA RN license
• Maintain ACLS certification upon hire or obtain AHA ACLS within 60 days of hire
• Utilize excellent communication skills, ability to multitask, and maintain a can-do attitude
Benefits for a OR:
- Weekly pay every Friday
- Medical/Dental/Vision/Life/Pet Insurance
- 401K Retirement Plan (matching)
- Full-service Credentialing and Corporate Travel Team
- Referral Bonus up to $1,500
Astrya Global Medical Staffing offers 10+ years of staffing experience, 100% domestic support, and is certified by both the Joint Commission and National Association of Locum Tenens Organizations. At Astrya, we are dedicated to helping healthcare professionals find the perfect job.
