NURSE (OPERATING ROOM)

<p>About the Position: This position is with Tripler Army Medical Center (TAMC) in the Directorate of Nursing in Honolulu, Hawaii. Tripler Army Medical Center is a tobacco-free workplace. Tobacco products include, but are not limited to, smoking, smokeless tobacco, and electronic nicotine delivery devices.</p><h3>Major Duties</h3><p>Serve as an Operating Room Nurse providing perioperative nursing care in a multi-service operating room providing a full range of surgical nursing services supporting complex and extensive surgical procedures.</p><p>Collaborate with surgeons in one or more surgical services to assess, coordinate, plan, and implement the newest approaches and practices to deliver efficient, cost-effective surgical care for the beneficiary population.</p><p>Open all sterile packs and supplies, according to aseptic technique.</p><p>Coordinate with physicians and other staff, preoperatively, to develop a multi-disciplinary, intra-operative plan of care.</p><p>Assist physician with examination, as well as treatment prior to, during, and following invasive procedures.</p><p>Implement individualized nursing care plans to include safety precautions, correct positioning, infection control precautions, aseptic and/or sterile practices, dispensing and/or administering medications.</p><p>Assist anesthesia providers with administering local, regional, and general anesthesia as well as assisting with the insertion of invasive monitoring lines.</p><p>Provide direction and on-the-job training to military and civilian personnel, para- professionals, medical students, residents, and other healthcare professionals.</p><h3>Education</h3>FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/. Only degrees from an accredited college or university recognized by the Department of Education are acceptable to meet positive education requirements or to substitute education for experience. For additional information, please go to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and U.S. Department of Education websites. Education above high school level completed in a college, university, or other educational institution must be accredited by one of the accrediting agencies or associations recognized by the Secretary, U.S. Department of Education. When using education to qualify you must submit your transcripts.