Endoscopy Unit Registered Nurse Full Time (sjrmc)

Job Description

Creating Life Better Here starts with you. At San Juan Regional Medical Center, we're more than a healthcare provider—we're a values-driven organization dedicated to delivering exceptional care. As a team member, you help fulfill our mission to make life better here for our community.

The Endoscopy Nurse will follow the guidelines imposed by the New Mexico State Practice Act while providing care to a patient. The Endoscopy nurse will provide services to the physician while performing Endoscopy procedures. The Endoscopy nurse will facilitate and guide the growth of the patient. The patient and the Endoscopy team will benefit from the nurses anticipation and knowledge of procedures performed in the GI Lab in the way of a safe and efficient environment. The Endoscopy nurse will be composed of skills that require kindness, benevolence, expertise, and proficiency for competent implementation in patient care. The Endoscopy nurse requires systematized knowledge derived from observation, critical thinking, and study to defeat illness. Through science and art of nursing care, the Endoscopy nurse will provide personal reverence to the patient, family, and health care team involved in each individual situation.

Required Behaviors:

• As you go about fulfilling this mission, your work habits and work relationships should embody SJRMC's values. These values are our culture, our identity as an organization: Sacred Trust, Personal Reverence, Thoughtful Anticipation, Team Accountability and Creative Vitality ask more of us than merely completing some list of tasks. Our values ask for a deeper level of commitment, and what is asked of us we freely give because we believe in our mission.

Required Qualifications:

• NM State Nursing Licensing
• BLS Certification

Preferred Qualifications:

• CGRN
• ACLS Certification – within six (6) months of hire/transfer

Duties and Responsibilities:

• The Endoscopy nurse is responsible for pre procedural arrangements with Nursing floors and the outpatients in regard to scheduled procedure time, transportation, and instructions
• Maintains continuity of patient care through communication with other healthcare team members involved in the care of the patient
• The Endoscopy nurse is responsible for receiving patients and admitting, periodic, and discharge vital signs per department policy
• The nurse will utilizes assessment skills to help plan an approach of individualized care to each patient and provide safe patient care during pre, intra, and post procedure
• The Endoscopy nurse is responsible for IV access prior to the procedure; all prerequisite medical intervention (i.e. fluid, antibiotic, blood products, medications etc.) will be administered according to nursing protocol policy and physician’s orders
• The Endoscopy nurse is responsible for teaching pre-procedure and discharge instructions
• The nurse will communicate an attitude of concern to the patient and family through active listening, responding to the needs communicated and giving feedback
• The Endoscopy nurse is responsible for assisting in Endoscopy/Bronchoscopy set up of equipment, assisting with the procedure, and clean-up of equipment
• Specimen handling according to proper laboratory procedures i.e. pathology, histology, cytology, microbiology solutions and proper handling
• The Endoscopy nurse is responsible for proper and accurate documentation stated by department policy of care given and is responsible for patient records and procedure charges
• The Endoscopy nurse is responsible for adhering to department policy concerning infection control and maintains aseptic laboratory skills
• The Endoscopy nurse is responsible respecting culture diversity, employing interpreters when needed, note and accommodate hearing and visual impaired patients
• The nurse will included family and significant others in patient care, planning education, use age appropriate teaching when needed, advocate patient rights as needed, understand age-related physiological difference and can implement age-appropriate therapeutic in interventions, interact professional with co-workers and promote interdepartmental teamwork
• Each employee is responsible for implementing SJRMC’s Service Standards into their daily work:

                                                     Safety, Courtesy, Effectiveness, and Stewardship

• Other duties as assigned

Physical Demands and Environmental Work Conditions:

• Recognize that potential exposure to blood borne pathogens and/or hazardous materials, x-ray, noxious/irritating fumes, long hours, and unforeseen conditions that might generate stress may be encountered
• Must be able to see with corrective eyewear and hear clearly with assistance
• Must be able to walk, stand, squat, climb, kneel, and twist frequently
• Must be able to lift greater than 50 pounds and push 0-300 pounds frequently
• Recognize that physical demands such as extensive walking, standing, lifting, positioning, pushing, and or transferring of patients may be required
• Responsible for on-call duties as assigned by GI Lab Manager