Registered Nurse – Surgical

Job Description

Come join our Surgical Department at Santiam Hospital & Clinics. We are a 5-star rated Hospital and voted 2021’s Best of the Mid-Valley for Best Hospital, Best Place to Have a Baby, and Best Local Surgery Center!

We are seeking an experienced Registered Nurse to enhance our healthcare team of innovated leaders.

Santiam Hospital & Clinics is an independent, not-for-profit, 40 bed acute-care community-based hospital with 13 clinics across 8 specialties settled in the foothills of the Cascades serving many recreational sites as well as agricultural communities. We are an ever growing, progressive, up-to-date healthcare facility that is proud to serve our community and care for our friends and neighbors, ensuring the highest quality of care is delivered.

Job Summary: Full-time, dayshift with call

We have a busy and growing surgery department with a great team to work! Our specialties include Orthopedics/Podiatry, OB/GYN, General surgery, ENT, and Ophthalmology. In the surgery department, we have 7 pre and post beds, 3 large surgical suites and a GI suite with another large surgical suite in the OB department.

Job Responsibilities

• Work in environments where patients receive intense interventions, therapies, and complex cares, and they must offer humane care for their patients
• Protect patients’ rights by maintaining confidentiality of personal, medical and financial information per HIPAA.
• Preoperative Unit Duties:
• Complete appropriate Service documentation, including that related to patient admission.
• Verify Service patient understanding of pending surgery.
• Verify patient consent forms, and ensure that such forms are accurately signed, dated, and timed.
• Verify completion of preoperative testing ordered by Medical Staff.
• Intraoperative Duties:
• Continuously ensure optimal patient care provision by all surgery team members.
• Initiate and ensure surgery team “Time Out” participation immediately prior to procedure commencement and ensure that “Time Out” checklists are completed.
• Consistently maintain aseptic technique.
• Thoroughly and accurately document intraoperative care, charges, specimen collection, and misadventures.
• Complete and document surgery sponge and needle counts and notify surgeons of results of such counts.
• Anticipate needs of other surgery team members, and assist such members as requested.
• Post-Anesthesia Care Unit Duties:
• Ensure continuous Unit readiness for receipt of post-surgery patients.
• Provide complete patient assessment on Unit admission and immediately prior to Unit discharge.
• Provide direct and continuous Unit patient care, including airway optimization, immediately report significant patient data or change in patient condition to responsible anesthesia providers.
• Thoroughly and accurately document Unit care and misadventures.
• Request appropriate assistance when indicated.
• Postoperative Unit Duties:
• Provide patient assessment on Unit admission.
• Monitor patient vital signs according to Service protocol.
• Immediately report significant patient data or change in patient condition to responsible surgery providers.
• Immediately prior to Unit discharge, provide patient assessment and ensure patient wakefulness, oral fluid tolerance, applicable ambulation ability, and pain and nausea levels.
• Ensure that patient discharge instructions are prepared, given to patient.

Job Qualifications

• Treat clients with compassion, respect, and dignity without regard to age, culture, ethnicity, gender expression, gender identity, language, mental disability, physical disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status.
• Adequately maintain service area standards.
• Demonstrate ability to educate others about pertinent patient care issues.
• Recognize how the service area relates to healthcare generally, and coordinate Service activity with that of other Hospital Services.
• Promote community health and welfare through education, support, and medical service.
• Promote the Hospital as the health center of the community and encourage community participation in Hospital activities.
• Work with public and private agencies to promote patient and community health and welfare.
• Patient Rights, Responsibilities, and Ethics
• Adhere to Hospital policy that concerns patient rights.
• Respect and maintain patient confidentiality and privacy in manner consistent with Hospital policy.
• Must be able to communicate effectively and have excellent interpersonal skills
• Must be highly motivated
• Work well with a team and have the ability to function in a fast-paced environment
• Current unencumbered RN license in the State of Oregon
• Current BLS required
• Experience with Electronic Medical Records preferred

Job Benefits

• Medical/Vision/Dental Insurance with coverage effective on the 1st of the next month following start date.
• Employee Assistance Program
• Employee Discounts at the Cafeteria, On-site Pharmacy, Gift Shop, and Medical Care.
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) & Extended Illness Bank (EIB)
• Annual PTO Cash-Out Program
• Hospital Incentive Program
• Bilingual Pay Differential Program
• Employee Referral Bonus Program
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Life Insurance
• Long Term Disability Insurance