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Registered Nurse - Operating Room
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 1 days ago
About the Role
The Western New York VA Medical Center is looking for a full-time Registered Nurse to join our dedicated team in the Operating Room at the Buffalo VA Medical Center, where you will provide high-quality, veteran-centered care that supports recovery, comfort, and dignity.
What You'll Do
- →The Registered Nurse (RN) is assigned to the Operating Room (OR) in the Ambulatory Care Service with the Buffalo, NY VA Medical Center.
- →The incumbent is a professional registered nurse, qualified by education and recent operating room experience to provide direct patient care and specializes in perioperative nursing practice.
- →The Registered Nurse will be involved in the three phases of the patient's surgical/OR experience.
- →This includes the preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative surgical phases of care.
- →The incumbent will possess intimate knowledge of regulatory requirements, VHA guidelines, utilization of organizational processes, clinical documentation requirements, current standards of care, evidence based practices and compliance guidelines.
- →The incumbent will execute position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex client surgical care.
- →The Operating Room Nurse functional role includes specialization in perioperative nursing practice and is responsible for preoperative assessment and postoperative evaluation, providing individualized direct care with emphasis on the intraoperative period, organizing and coordinating the clinical components in response to individual healthcare needs and care continuum in multiple settings.
- →The goals are to center services around the patient, to foster patient self-managed care, and maximize efficient and cost-effective use of health care resources.
- →The Operating Room Nurse utilizes all avenues of resources available to provide safe and efficient timely coordination of quality health care and services.
- →The scope of practice will include but is not limited to the role of scrub/instrument and circulating nurse.
- →The incumbent collaborates and coordinates the patient's plan of care with the multidisciplinary team members.
- →The duties include, but are not limited to: Expected to function proficiently in both the circulator and scrub role within the OR and to be competent in all surgical specialties served.
- →Maintain knowledge of current Association of peri-Operative Registered Nurses (AORN) Standards, VHA Directives, and service level standard operating procedures.
- →Assure the sterility of the surgical field is maintained and all instrumentation and equipment in play is used in a safe and efficient manner.
Requirements
- ✓Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓You may be required to serve a probationary period.
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 3a642633-94b2-446b-be60-eb2aa43173fa
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