Pre-Admission Nurse – Full Time

• Organizes and maintains the medical record of pending surgical patients;
• Telephones and/or answers incoming calls of scheduled patients to gather his/her medical history, gives instructions regarding the medications they are currently taking and gives detailed information regarding their arrival for surgery;
• Evaluates patients for pre-anesthesia laboratory test and/or chest x-rays, and schedules testing with appropriate facilities;
• Prepares medical records in orderly manner;
• Records surgical procedure taken from physician order onto the surgical consent form, files all laboratory results onto chart;
• Notes allergies on the chart, prepares armband to notify other personnel of latex allergy, diabetes patient, or hypoglycemic patient;
• Confers with Anesthesiologist and/or Director of Nursing and/or Clinical Compliance Coordinator regarding any unusual medical problem;
• Notifies staff of any special needs of patient;
• Prepares charts for the day of surgery insuring that physician orders, history and physical of patient, laboratory results, and any other pertinent information is on the chart;
• Confirms surgical site and time of surgery on patient chart with the surgery schedule;
• Must have experience with multi-disease processes and medications to treat such diseases/illnesses.