Scrub nurse vs contractor-registered nurse

Differences between scrub nurse and contractor-registered nurse duties and responsibilities

Scrub nurse example responsibilities.

• Organize and manage regular clinics involving external physicians, including ophthalmology, ENT, Med/Surg, orthopedics, and podiatry professionals.
• Assist scrub nurse in the setup, arrangement and count of surgical equipment and sponges.
• Maintain and accurately document proper counting of instruments, sponges and needles as per policy.
• Include teaching at community outreach seminars and optometry seminars for patients and physicians
• Provide teaching to patients and families regarding health care preparation in ambulatory/outpatient care.
• Perform and participate in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
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Contractor-registered nurse example responsibilities.

• Assign to cardiac vascular recovery units, manage open-heart recovery, critical care, and post-anesthesia patients.
• Manage patient pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacological and non-pharmacological intervention, monitor patient response and record care plans accordingly.
• Contract RN caring for patients in ICU, CCU, and telemetry floor.
• Float to other floors such as orthopedics, oncology, and skil units.
• Collaborate with house nursing supervisor for transfer and admittance of new patients to the ICU.
• Assist with staffing needs in PACU recovering post-op surgical patients after general, spinal, and conscious sedation anesthesia.
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