Lexington Medical Center is hiring: RN CVOR in Columbia

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Operating Room

Full Time

Day Shift

0600-1430

Sign-On Bonus: $20,000.00

Consistently named best hospital, Lexington Medical Center dedicates itself to providing quality health services that meet the needs of its communities. Ranked #1 in the Columbia metro area by U.S. News & World Report, Lexington Medical Center is the only hospital named one of the Best Places to Work in South Carolina and the first hospital in the state to achieve Magnet with Distinction status for excellence in nursing care.

The 607-bed teaching hospital anchors a health care network that includes six community medical centers and employs more than 8,700 health care professionals. The network includes a cardiovascular program recognized by the American College of Cardiology as South Carolina’s first HeartCARE CenterTM and an accredited Cancer Center of Excellence affiliated with MUSC Hollings Cancer Center for research and education.

Job Summary

The cardiovascular operating room nurse (CVOR RN) coordinates and performs all aspects of patient care during cardiovascular, cardiothoracic, or vascular surgical procedures and other areas of the OR as needed to include pre-op preparation and patient transport. The CVOR RN works to ensure the operating room environment is safe and consults with health care team members to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care.

Utilizes the nursing process to promote and restore patient’s health status; collaborates with physicians and multidisciplinary team members; provides physical and psychological support to patients, family members and significant others; and supervises assigned team members.

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Education: ADN, Diploma or Bachelors of Science in Nursing

• New graduate RN’s who acquire their generic RN education through an on-line program will not meet LMC minimum qualifications

Minimum Years of Experience: None

Required Certifications/Licensure: Current RN license to practice in the State of South Carolina;

• Refer to Mandatory Certification Requirements P&P for required education/certification for various nursing specialties.

Essential Functions

PATIENT CARE AND SUPPORT

• Establishes positive rapport with patient and family.
• Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.
• Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals; provides education to patient, and family in a manner they can understand their condition, medications, and self-care skills, etc. and provides them ample opportunity to ask questions.
• Serves as patient/family advocate.
• Maintains continuity among nursing teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs.
• Uses a systematic critical-thinking approach to guide data gathering, assessment, nursing judgement, intervention and evaluation of human responses to actual and potential health problems.

CLINICAL WORK QUALITY

• Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments; following hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations.
• Resolves patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.
• Participates in process/performance improvement activities and initiatives utilizing evidence based practice to maintain and/or improve quality of care and safe patient care systems and processes.

Professional Responsibilities

• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
• Meets or exceeds all LMC requirements for attendance and service expectations.
• Maintains required certifications.

We are committed to offering quality, cost-effective benefits choices for our employees and their families:

• Day ONE medical, dental and life insurance benefits
• Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Employees are eligible for enrollment into the 403(b) match plan day one. LHI matches dollar for dollar up to 6%.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the policy of LMC to provide equal opportunity of employment for all individuals, and to remain compliant with applicable state and federal laws and regulations.