Evaluates operating room patients and plans, implements and documents nursing care. Assists physicians during surgical procedures. Functions in a scrub and circulating nurse role. Provide nurse/scrub tech education, clinical supervision and evaluation of personnel.

Interprets, explains and follows all regulatory guidelines, including medical staff bylaws, fair hearing plan, rules and regulations and polices.Maintains systems to identify (and disseminate to others) medical staff members and their clinical privileges, prepares and maintains other related records and reports. Works with medical staff leadership and hospital clinical staff for the approval and ongoing review of these practitioners.Monitors and revises credentialing and privileging forms as needed.Ensures maintenance of medical staff and allied health staff files.Ensures that results of medical staff quality management findings are provided to appropriate review committees/ departments and maintained in a confidential file.Coordinates continuing medical education programs for the medical staff and ensures compliance with the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization (JCAHO) and other regulatory organizations.

Employed critical thinking to integrate objective data with knowledge gained from an assessment of the subjective experiences of patients.Utilized the critical thinking process to apply the best available evidence and research data to the processes of diagnosis and treatment.Evaluated quality and effectiveness of nursing practice to optimize patient outcomes. Applied medical/clinical knowledge, technical and clinical skills, clinical judgment, interpersonal skills and communication as indicated in the current Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Hospitals.