POSITION SUMMARY Provides nursing care to the patient by assessment, planning, treatment, and evaluation. Provides safe, knowledgeable, compassionate, educative, individualized, and goal-directed nursing care to all patients and their families. Oversees a safe atmosphere in the operating room to ensure that sterility is maintained for the duration of the surgical procedure. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS Education: • Graduate of a registered nurse program. Experience: • Previous RN experience required. • Operating room experience preferred. • If a suitable RN candidate with OR experience is not available, we will consider an RN applicant willing to fulfill on the job training. Knowledge, Skills, Abilities: • Effectively functions as a team member and as a liaison between patient and staff. • Possesses basic computer skills. • Ability to work well with patients, families, physicians, visitors, and coworkers who are often under physical or emotional stress. • Able to maintain confidentiality of all records and information in the course of the work day. • Able to share knowledge, as in orienting new employees to the surgical center. License/Certification/Registration: • Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse. • Meets the American Heart Association's standards for Healthcare Provider Basic Life Support (BLS) and renews BLS every two years. • After four months from the hire/transfer date, meets the American Heart Association's standards for Healthcare Provider Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and renews ACLS every two years. • After six months from the hire/transfer date, meets the American Heart Association's standards for Healthcare Provider Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) and renews PALS every two years SUPERVISION RECEIVED Receives general supervision from Manager / Nursing Supervisor Surgical Center. SUPERVISION GIVEN Leads the activities of the technicians.  ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS • Assesses and responds to the individual physical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of the patient through personal observation and interaction. Acts as a patient advocate. • Sets up operating room with appropriate sterile supplies, and equipment according to the assignments and schedule. • Works as a team with the scrub nurse/technician, anesthesia personnel, and surgeon to provide an organized, safe, and efficient environment of care. • Identifies patient and operative site, per policy. Transports patient safely, communicates information accurately to the surgical team, and charts it in a timely and accurate manner. • Constantly observes sterile field throughout surgical procedure. • Charts the required information on the patient record, checks the consent schedule, H&P for each surgical procedure, and performs the "time out" properly. Oversees sponge/needle/instruments counts before surgery, and reports the results to the surgeon after they are completed intraoperatively. • Provides the appropriate medications available for each case, labeled properly, and oversees their proper use and labeling on the sterile field. • Handles specimen correctly and safely. Labels, records, and places specimens in proper containers, records the information on the couriers list according to the policy and transports to the lab. • Uses appropriate PPE when needed. • When functioning as float nurse/resource, maintains communication among all areas, relieves personnel for breaks and lunches in a timely manner, assists with checking case carts, maintains the flow of patients according to the OR schedule, and utilizes staff in a cost effective manner. • Reviews surgeon's preference cards periodically to ensure that specific supplies and equipment are available for the procedure. • Independently gains knowledge and familiarizes self with all equipment, procedures, supplies, and drugs, and is familiar with their storage locations. • Familiar with anesthesia supplies, location of crash cart, MH cart, anesthesia emergency carts, and locations of endotrach tubes, LMA's, endoscopes, and anesthesia medications. • Utilizes supplies, equipment, and resources to contain costs without compromising patient care. Participates in annual inventory counts. Decrements supplies accurately. • Assists with housekeeping duties as necessary, making beds, mopping floors between cases, disposing of trash, etc. • Participates in committee meetings, offers suggestions as improvements, seeks guidance and direction when needed. • Other duties as assigned. NON-ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS Performs related and miscellaneous duties as assigned.