Staff Nurse - Operating Room

Queens Hospital Center is making good on its promise to the people of southeastern and central Queens to maximize both patient convenience and positive clinical outcomes. Residents of Queens can count on the delivery of quality medical care right in their own borough. In 2002 the hospital opened a state-of-the-art, 261-bed facility that includes the Queens Cancer Center, the first comprehensive cancer treatment center in the borough.

Job Description:

Under supervision, provides professional nursing care to patients/clients within an
assigned unit. Diagnoses and treats responses to actual or potential health problems by
means of nursing methods and techniques such as case-finding, health teaching, health
counseling and the provision of care supportive to and restorative of life and well-being.

Examples of Typical Tasks

1. Identifies and discriminates between physical and psycho-social signs and
symptoms. Selects and performs those therapeutic measures which are essential for
effective execution of the nursing regimen for assigned patients/clients.
2. Develops, implements and evaluates the nursing regimen for assigned
patients/clients.
3. Records and maintains nursing care plans and progress notes on patients/clients to
ensure continuity of care.
4. Interprets and reports responses of patients/clients to appropriate members of the
health team.
5. Participates with other health team members to plan a comprehensive patient care
program.
6. Determines and assigns those components of the nursing regimen which may be
carried out by allied nursing personnel.
7. Provides teaching, guidance and direction to allied nursing personnel in rendering
patient care.
8. Participates in defining, implementing, maintaining and interpreting standards of
nursing practice
9. Participates in departmental and interdisciplinary conferences pertaining to policies
and procedures affecting nursing practice.