Job Summary: Provides direct pre-assessment nursing care to patients by performing the following duties.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
Prepares patients for surgery by providing pre-operative instructions. Administers to the assessment of physical and emotional needs of patients and considers same for their families as appropriate. Understands and interprets physician's orders; prescribed medications and other pharmaceutical products in accordance with orders, reviews lab values, EKG's and x-ray reports. Checks the accuracy of admission paperwork (history, consents, instructions, etc.). Understands and interprets medication dosages, contraindications and side effects. Assessment and documentation of patients’ medical histories, including allergies and other assessment parameters, per policy. Faxes abnormal results to surgeon’s office and alerts anesthesia to any pote...