Perioperative Resource Nurse [7/4/2025]

Company: Guthrie
Location: Binghamton
Posted on: July 4, 2025

Job Description:

Job Description Job Description The pay range for this position is $37.50-53.06. Position Summary: The Perioperative Resource Nurse at The Guthrie Clinic Health System is designed to fill workforce gaps in high vacancy areas in the ORs. A Perioperative Resource Nurse may serve at either our Level 1 Trauma Center (Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital) or Guthrie Lourdes Hospital (197 bed multi specialty community hospital.) The incumbent will work in the services lines for which they have competencies. The Perioperative Resource Nurses provides a high-level of clinical nursing care to assigned patients, performing related assessments, procedures and treatments, evaluations, patient care plan development/revisions, and education to patient and/or family. The Perioperative Resource Nurse puts the patient first and ensures that high quality care is given to assigned patients by following policies, clinical guidelines, safety systems such as medication scanning and bed alarm use, timely and accurate documentation, core measure compliance and serving as a patient advocate. The RN – System Resource makes providing an exceptional patient/family experience high priority. Education, License & Cert: To be employed as an RN – Perioperative Resource Nurse, an individual must have at minimum, a Bachelor’s degree in Nursing, two years of recent experience in an acute care operating suite, and pass the NCLEX. The incumbent will preferably be proficient in two or more services. (General, Orthopedic, ENT, Urology, Ophthalmology, Plastics, DaVinci Robotics, Cardiology, GI, Vascular, Trauma). Ability to both scrub and circulate cases is preferential but not required. Duties: The caregiver will be employed as a Perioperative Resource Nurse (RN) for the following duties: - Must be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide a high level of nursing care in units to which assigned. (Operating Room at Robert Packer Hospital or Guthrie Lourdes Hospital) - Assesses patient's condition based upon observation, examination, and/or interview, physician's diagnosis, laboratory findings, age-related issues, and other pertinent information - Completes assessment in specified time frame. Identifies and consistently recognizes changes in normal and abnormal parameters in the patient's physiological, psychological, cultural, developmental, and spiritual needs - Implements nursing interventions to achieve progress toward expected patient outcomes or to stabilize a patient's condition and/or prevent complications - Evaluates and documents patients' response to nursing care and modifies or revises treatment plans, and/or contacts physicians as circumstances require - Participates in interdisciplinary patient care planning and evaluates patient progression in preparation for safe discharge - Identifies and completes assessments of patient (family) educational needs. Provides education consistent with patient's level of understanding using existing resources based on diagnosis, treatment plan or prescribed medical regimen - Uses professional judgment and critical thinking to prepare, prioritize and execute the patient's plan of care consistent with patient assessment data and physician's treatment plans and professional standards of evidence-based practice/care - Incorporates the patient's physiological, psychological, cultural, developmental, and spiritual needs into the plan of care - Follows patient care and facility guidelines and procedures in performance of one's duties consistently - Directs and delegates support personnel in implementing patient's plan of care, provides guidance, and immediately intervenes with deviation standards of care - Follows polices and protocol when administering medications, starting intravenous fluids and blood products. - Performs both complex and routine treatments as prescribed by physicians, approved nursing protocols that aligns with clinical assessment of patient's condition - Works closely with the Nurse Manager to ensure that all budgetary, Process Improvement, Core Measures and Patient Satisfaction initiatives are achieved - Recognizes the importance of being a professional role model for others

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