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RN, Pre Admission Testing
Job Location:
Job Location:
Gardner, KS - USA
Hourly Salary:
USD 39 - 78
Hourly Salary:
Posted:
20 September 2026 (3 days ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
18 December 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
Overview
You Matter Here!
Heywood Healthcare values our employees! We offer competitive wages great benefits and generous earned time off.
Hours:Days 4- 8 hour shifts 8am-430pm no weekends
$39.58 - $78.93
Disclaimer
We are committed to equitable and transparent compensation practices. The salary range for this position reflects our good-faith estimate of base pay at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined based on a variety of factors including relevant experience skills qualifications and internal equity. We regularly review our compensation structures to ensure fairness and consistency across our organization.
Primary role of a pre-admission testing Register Nurse (RN) is to evaluate patients prior to their arrival to perioperative services which includes but is not limited to: completing and documenting a thorough nursing assessment history and physical as applicable initiate pertinent patient teaching initiate and evaluate pertinent diagnostic tests and notify physicians/providers as necessary. Pre-admission testing RN works closely with perioperative staff surgeons proceduralists and anesthesia providers to ensure patient readiness for their scheduled procedures.
Responsibilities
EssentialFunctions
- Provides patient care based on standards of care standards of practice protocols and established policies and procedures.
- Respects each patient as an individual; provides care that fosters the patients sense of dignity and positive self-regard.
- Provides patient/family teaching based on identified learning needs readiness to learn and barriers to learning.
- Collaboratively plans and prepares patient/family for discharge incorporating support systems/resources as necessary.
- Appropriately delegates and supervises nursing interventions performed by others
- Appropriately prioritizes patient care (e.g. seeks assistance as needed from appropriate resources reassigns personnel as necessary recognizes need for emergency intervention etc.).
- Provides thorough timely and accurate documentation of all pertinent data therapeutic interventions and patient responses according to established standards.
- Provides timely and thorough report on assigned patients to other health care team members to ensure integration of services and continuity of patient care.
- Promotes learning for colleagues and self (e.g. functions as preceptor instructor trainer attends professional development programs etc.).
- Proactively identifies risk to patient safety and identifies opportunities to reduce medical/health care errors (i.e. appropriate reporting of errors/incidents).
- Identifies ethical issues in care and develops plan to address.
- Assesses patient pain level as necessary depending upon diagnosis utilizing the numerical pain scale
- Obtains supporting information and completes required documentation related to medication reconciliation in the electronic record.
- Collaborates with surgeon proceduralist radiologist anesthesiologist cardiologist primary care physician etc to assure patients wellbeing and appropriate plan for perioperative period.
- Assures pertinent diagnostic tests (e.g. labs EKG xray etc) are obtained. Communicates abnormal values effectively to medical providers as necessary.
- Identifies patients correctly by checking patient identification bands and consent forms as well as verifying operative procedure and site.
- Demonstrates competency in providing infection prevention pre-anesthesia and post-operative care education to patients family or health care proxy as applicable.
- Seeks out learning opportunities practice recommendations and updates relevant to perioperative care.
- Exhibits excellent customer relations to patients visitors physicians and co-workers. Provides compassionate patient centered care at all times.
- Demonstrates competency in accurate and thorough documentation of pre-admission nursing assessment history physical (as applicable) and pre-anesthesia screening.
- Maintains all competencies and certifications required for this position
Statement of Other Duties
This document describes the major duties and responsibilities for this job and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood therefore that employees may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described.
Functional Demands
Physical Requirements
Exerts 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Frequently reaches (extending hands and arms in any direction) handles (seizing holding grasping turning or working with hands) and feels (perceiving attributes of items such as size shape temperature or texture by means of fingertips). Occasionally stoops (bending the body downward and forward by bending the spine at the waist) and kneels (bending the legs at knee to come to rest on knee or knees).
Organizational Expectations
Behavioral Attributes
The following behavioral attributes are required: achievement motivation flexibility concern for order initiative self-confidence self control customer service orientation interpersonal effectiveness teamwork and information seeking.
Qualifications
Job Requirements
Minimum Education
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
Minimum Work Experience
- Qualified candidates must have minimum 3 years of experience within Perioperative Services.
Minimum Licenses and Certifications
- Massachusetts United States Registered Nurses
Current MA license and CPR certification required.
Required Skills
- Must be self-directed; must be able to manage time efficiently; must demonstrate mature professional behaviors (i.e. tact empathy and diplomacy); must be willing to work/cross train to other areas within perioperative services if needed.
About Company
About Heywood Healthcare Heywood Healthcare is an independent, community-owned healthcare system serving north central Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire, comprised of Heywood Hospital, a 134-bed acute care community-owned non-profit hospital in Gardner, MA; Athol Hospital, a 25 ... View more
