Certified Nurse Operating Room (CNOR)Functions as a staff RN and also a resource for speciality services for other staff members to use for clinical support.Demonstrates the ability to work collaboratively with surgeons in planning, implementing, and evaluating the care for the surgical patient. Precept new staff members for 6 month orientations.Provides the surgical patients needs by assessing, planning, implementing nurse care throughout the phases of surgery.Perioperative nursing care includes assessing patient, creating and maintaining sterile environment, preoperative and postoperative teaching, coordinating care by using necessary resources.

Coordinated, documented and structured the care of 30+ chronically ill residents within a long-term care facility.Safely reviewed and administered medication through parental, intramuscular, and oral medications.Deliver enteral nutrition through feeding tubes such as, gastrostomy tube, jejunostomy tube, or percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) for chronically ill patients.Document daily skin and pain assessments for other nursing staff to care for the patient