Pre-Op/Pre - Admissions Nurse (PAT RN)
Pre-Op/Pre - Admissions Nurse (PAT RN)
Dallas, Texas
Overview
When you join USPI, you’re joining a caring, compassionate team who provides excellence in patient care across all of our facilities. As part of our staff, you’ll work with a high level of professionalism and commitment to our patients by providing safe, efficient patient care throughout their health experience. We follow the highest standard for nursing excellence, quality patient care, and innovation.
- Job Type: Full Time
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Success Profile
What makes a successful Pre-Op/Pre - Admissions Nurse (PAT RN) at our location? Check out the traits we’re looking for and see if you have the right mix.
- Team player
- Multi-Tasker
- Positive
- Compassionate
- Analytical
- Detail-Oriented
Culture
The culture of USPI revolves around our mission of treating each and every one of our patients, and their families, as if they were our own family members – each patient, each family, each and every time. We also believe in:
- Working with compassion and respect for others and each other, supporting our communities and advocating for our patients
- Acting with integrity and the highest ethical standards – always
- Delivering results through accountability and transparency
- Embracing inclusiveness for all people in our workplace and in the communities we serve
Benefits
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Healthcare
Medical, dental, vision, healthcare/dependent FSA, life and disability insurance
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401(k) Retirement Plans
Secure your future with plans that also include employer discretionary match
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Tuition Reimbursement
Up to $1,500 maximum reimbursement per year
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Paid Time Off
Up to 15 PTO days per year and 6 paid holidays
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Work/Life Balance
Benefits such as paid holidays and vacation help you keep a healthy work-life balance
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Compensation
Competitive salaries
Pre-Op/Pre - Admissions Nurse (PAT RN)
Responsibilities
Under the direct supervision of the Pre-Op Nurse Manager, in conjunction with the Clinical Director, the Pre-Admission Nurse performs a verbal assessment with the patient prior to admission via a phone interview as well as collects the patient’s medical history from previous medical records and integrates information into facilities’ web-based patient medical portal. The nurse also works closely with the surgeons’ offices and anesthesia groups in coordinating the patient’s needs prior to surgery.
Education Minimum: Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
Required Work Experience: Minimum 1-2 years in Ambulatory Surgery Center or Pre-op or Pre-Admission Testing department.
Preferred Work Experience: at least 1 year of Telephonic assessment skills
Licenses & Certifications: State of Texas RN licensure, BLS certified
Required Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities:
Possess good communication skills and the ability to maintain interactive/interpersonal relationships. Possess a good working knowledge of nursing theory, practice, and legal aspects of nursing, and techniques, care and use of equipment used in an ambulatory surgery center setting. Interview/communication skills, nursing assessment skills, critical thinking/problem solving skills, and teaching/counseling skills. Possess strong computer skills and experience with health care applications, Microsoft and/or Windows applications, web-based EHR systems. Ability to work in a self-directed environment with little supervision. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Telephone voice/speech pattern is articulate and has a pleasant tone. Professional demeanor. Ability to work as a member of a team. Ability to prioritize tasks
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Practice appropriate telephone and patient triage skills, being aware of the need to balance quality care with efficient use of time and resources.
2. Perform verbal assessment with patient prior to admission – in person or via telephone, communicating information to appropriate team members.
3. Ensure pre-operative care requirements of patients are accomplished through use of the nursing process including assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation
4. Perform patient teaching/education as established by the department.
5. Assess pertinent information, plan, implement, and document interventions and evaluate results.
6. Maintain and promote patient’s safety by assessing physical and psychological needs.
7. Respond to telephone inquiries regarding expressed needs of the caller.
8. Perform outbound follow-up calls as requested.
9. Provide general health information.
11. Thoroughly document all call encounters utilizing manual and/or on-line information systems at the time of the call.
12. Alert anesthesia/surgeon of results of labs, physical assessment, or special needs of individual with medical problems – prior to date of surgery.
13. Use effective communication techniques which adhere to common standards of courtesy.
14. Answer inquiries in a timely and helpful manner.
15. Communicate NPO instructions to patients as prescribed.
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employee’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin,
age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or
expression, veteran status or any other legally protected status. Tenet will
make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities
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