RN OPERATING ROOM 32 HOUR DAY ROTATION

North Shore Medical Center is the largest healthcare provider on the North Shore, offering state-of-the art comprehensive health care to communities north of Boston. It is a member of Partners Health Care, the largest health system in Massachusetts, and founded by Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Womens Hospital. As a member of Partners HealthCare, NSMC enjoys access to extensive clinical, technical and administrative resources. North Shore Medical Center includes NSMC Salem Hospital, NSMC Union Hospital, Massachusetts General for Children at North Shore Medical Center, NSMC Heart Center and NSMC Womens Center. In addition, we have more than 200 physicians, nurse practitioners and healthcare professionals in more than 15 practices of our North Shore Physician Group network. The North Shore Medical Center community shares a responsibility to provide the safest, highest quality and most compassionate care to our patients. We promise truly world-class primary and specialty care, essential community health services and a commitment to perfection in patient experience every time, every day, everywhere at North Shore Medical Center. BENEFITS: Your decision to join an organization is based on many considerations. At The North Shore Medical Center, we feel our benefit program plays a vital role in demonstrating the organizations commitment to its employees. NSMCs benefits package includes Medical, Dental, Retirement, Earned Time Off, Flexible Spending, Life and Disability Insurances, and Tuition Reimbursement. SUMMARY: The Registered Nurse manages all aspects of the nursing process and the delivery of patient and family centered care. The Registered Nurse has the responsibility and authority to request and use governing and administrative resources, technological and support systems, and multidisciplinary clinical experts necessary to manage and deliver quality, cost effective patient care. PRIMARY RESPONIBILITIES: 1. Utilizes the standards of Patient Focused Model. Plans, implements and evaluates, and manages care for all patients with consideration of age, developmental, socioeconomic, psychological, physical, spiritual and cultural factors. 2. Practice reflects knowledge of current nursing literature and resources, demonstrates ongoing learning in appropriate science, such as: contemporary medical, pharmacologic, pathophysiology to care for specific patient types. 3. Maintains competency in nursing practice and clinical skills and makes annual plan for professional development. Completes mandatory educational requirements. 4. Assesses, diagnoses, plans, implements and evaluates care for assigned patients that is consistent with the medical plan and is responsive to the patients changing needs. 5. Delegates appropriate nursing activities to unlicensed personnel based on: the stability of the patient; the training an capability of the unlicensed person to whom the nursing task is delegated; nature of the nursing task being delegated; and the proximity and availability of the nurse to the unlicensed person when performing the activity. 6. Collects and analyzes patient information. Collaborates with patient, family, physicians and health care team members to: expedite and coordinate the delivery of services and insure efficient use of resources. 7. Collaborates with the physician regarding the patients clinical status, medical and nursing treatment plans, progression toward outcomes and next level of care. Maintains continuity of care, delivery process and familysignificant other communication to achieve optimal outcomes. 8. Assesses patients learning needs. Develops a teaching plan based upon assessment. Educates patients and family members in disease processes, testing, medications, signs symptoms, etc. Communicates understandingprogress to outcomes with other team members. 9. Assures timely initiation, completion, communication and documentation of nursing care, tests, treatment, teaching and discharge p