Pre Anesthesia Testing RN

CommonSpirit Health was formed by the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health. With more than 700 care sites across the U.S., from clinics and hospitals to home-based care and virtual care services, CommonSpirit is accessible to nearly one out of every four U.S. residents. Our world needs compassion like never before. Our communities need caring and our families need protection. With our combined resources, CommonSpirit is committed to building healthy communities, advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable, and innovating how and where healing can happen, both inside our hospitals and out in the community.

This position contributes to the mission and vision of CHI Health by providing direct and indirect nursing care to a designated group of patients across the age continuum. Provides services which encompass the spiritual, physiological, social, and psychological aspects of care of the sick, prevention of disease, or conservation of health.

• Performs duties according to department specific expectations.
• Identify the care and resources required for accessing hospital services for surgical, procedural, non-invasive diagnostic, invasive diagnostic, admitted, and clinical procedure patients.
• Evaluates the appropriateness of levels of care, diagnostic testing and clinical procedures.
• Provides timely, accurate and complete medical record documentation and data collection initiating the electronic medical record and patient assessment clinical documentation.
• Facilitates the initiation of anesthesia orders.
• Establishes positive working relationships with physicians and their office staff with a focus on customer service and ease of access to hospital services.

This is a hybrid position calling preop patients for surgery along with covering the pre-anesthesia testing clinic at St. Francis Medical Center and Good Samaritan Hospital.

• Graduate of an accredited school of Licensed Nursing, upon hire
• Registered Nurse: NE, upon hire and
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire