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Job Summary:
MedStar Health is looking for a Surgical Liaison to join our team at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital!
As a Surgical Liaison, you will serve as a personal contact who provides support and helps to alleviate stress for families of surgical patients during the perioperative period, acting as a link in the communication network between family, patient, and staff. These functions are performed in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations and MGUH's philosophy, policies, procedures, and standards.
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Primary Duties:
Supports, comforts, and assists families of surgical patients on the day of surgery, traveling back and forth continuously between the Operating Room, Surgery Center, Post Anesthesia Care Unit, and the patient's families. Makes rounds in surgical waiting rooms, identifying families and their relationship to the patient and informs surgeon of family's location.
Collaborates with nursing staff, volunteers, support staff, surgeons to facilitate and support timely and private communication and information on the patient's progress to families and/or friends throughout the perioperative process.
Provides reassurance to the patient that on the day of surgery, his or her family member/significant other will be kept informed of patient's location and adherence to or delays in the operating room schedule.
Relays messages between patient, family member/significant other and the surgeon. Maintains personal contact with and arranges privacy for family member(s)/significant other(s) who may need to be by themselves, have special concerns, or who may have received an unfavorable medical report from the surgeon.
Assists with guiding patient families such as hospital resources and facilities and their locations.
Collaborates with Post Anesthesia Care Unit nurses and if needed, prepares and escorts families to & from the PACU following patient's surgery.
Qualifications:
Associate degree.
1-2 years hospital, nursing, or comparable experience in acute care setting.
RN (Registered Nurse) State Licensure and/or Compact State Licensure preferred.
Associate's degree in nursing preferred.
This position has a hiring range of
USD $23.19 - USD $40.61 /Hr.
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