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Job Description Job Title: Registered Nurse (RN) Reports to: Senior Nurse Manager FLSA Status: Non-Exempt Exempt GENERAL DESCRIPTION The Registered Nurse (RN) provides safe, efficient, and high-quality perioperative nursing care to patients undergoing outpatient orthopedic procedures. This role supports pre-operative assessment, intra-operative coordination, and post-anesthesia recovery, ensuring exceptional patient experience, clinical quality, and regulatory compliance in a fast-paced surgical environment. RESPONSIBILITIES To be successful in this role, the qualified individual may be asked to perform any of the following areas: Pre-Operative Care • Perform pre-operative patient assessments, including medical history, medication reconciliation, and surgical readiness, • Prepare patients for surgery, including IV initiation, pre-op medications, patient education, and verification of surgical consents, • Assistwith room turnover and case preparationin accordance withsterile technique and infection-prevention standards, • Support anesthesia and surgical teams as needed to ensure patient safety and procedural efficiency, • Monitor patients during recovery from anesthesia, assessing vital signs, pain levels, neurovascular status, and surgical sites, • Administer medications and interventions perordersand ASC protocols, • Recognize and respond promptly to post-operative complications or changes in patient condition, • Accurately document all patient care, assessments, medications, and interventions in the electronic health record (EHR), • Ensure compliance with ASC policies, CMS Conditions for Coverage, AAAHC/Joint Commission standards, and state regulations, • Promote a culture of safety, efficiency, and patient-centered care, • Participate in quality improvement initiatives, infection-control practices, and performance metrics The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and ability to perform the essential functions: • Current NYS RNLicense;, • BCLSrequired;, • ACLS/PALSpreferred;, • Minimum one year as an OR nurse, two or more years preferred with scrub and circulatingexperience;, • This is an “in office” position in a safe work environment, • Ability to travel to variousOrthoNYlocations if needed. Reliable transportation is essential., • Schedules are Monday-Friday; no weekends,holidaysor on-call