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Operating Room Registered Nurse – OR RN – Heart Team
POSITION TYPE: Registered Nurse (RN)
SPECIALTY UNIT: Operating Room – OR – Heart Team
LOCATION: Colorado Springs, CO
SHIFT: Days
JOB TYPE: Full-Time Permanent
$20,000 Sign On Bonus with a 1 year commitment! (Paid out in 1st 45 days)
$4.75 Heart Team differential added to Base Rate!
Depending on your location, you may be eligible for up to $8,000 in relocation assistance!
Job Description:
We are looking for a competent RN – Operating Room Nurse to join our dynamic dream team of healthcare professionals in order to provide the highest quality care making critical decisions and leading on clinical issues within a person-centered care model.
Our ideal RN -Operating Room candidate is a compassionate individual with a friendly personality, always ready to go the extra mile to ensure the comfort and well-being of our patients. You will assist surgeons during operations and keep the operating room sterile at all times. Furthermore, you will be responsible for the safe, effective, and efficient care of the patient in the operating room.
To be a successful RN – Operating Room Nurse, you need to possess phenomenal efficiency and attention to detail with a strong knowledge of operation procedures and patient safety. Being sympathetic and sensitive is a prerequisite for the profession. As an operating room nurse, you’ll go one step further by being a critical thinker and fast to act in emergencies.
*Previous OR Heart Team experience required*
Day to Day duties:
- Circulate and/or Scrub on all cases.
- Primarily, GEN, Urology, Ortho (Totals/ Trauma), Spine, Neuro, Plastics, Oncology, Robotics (DaVinci XI) and Trauma.
- Penrose specializes in Heart, Vascular surgeries with dedicated service teams for hearts and Vascular only.
- Associates are cross trained for all other services.
- Giving breaks and/or providing additional supplies and sterile instruments as needed during operations.
- Assisting with Room turnover and restocking for next day’s cases.
- Acting as an advocate for patient before, during and after surgery.
16 OR Suites
Approx. 600+ cases per month
Schedule: 40hrs/week – Variable shifts per surgical volume and current unit needs.
Call Required: Average 1 call shift per week Mon-Thu. 24 hour call shifts Fri/Sat/Sun, every 4 to 6 weeks. 80+ call hours per month. 30 min callback radius required
Responsibilities:
- Assess patients prior to surgery and alleviate their concerns.
- Ensure that the Operating Room is prepared with all necessary supplies, implants, instrumentation, and equipment.
- Keep the operating room sterilized at all times.
- Position and prepare the patient on the operating table.
- Pass medical instruments to the surgeons during operation.
- Monitor the patient’s vital signs to detect anomalies.
- Evaluate patients in postoperative phases.
- Reviews charts for completeness, in accordance with documentation protocols prior to and after the surgical procedure
- Adhere to all relevant health and safety standards.
- Communicate with patients, teammates, and physicians to ensure continuity of care.
Job Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Direct Deposit
- 401K
- Comprehensive Health, Dental, and Vision benefits
- Employee discount program
- Excellent room for growth and advancement
Education Requirements
- Associates Degree in Nursing required; Nursing Diploma or by endorsement
- Bachelors Degree in Nursing preferred
- Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing required for new graduates, preferred for experienced RNs
Experience Requirements
- One year experience preferred
- Nursing skills and knowledge base specific to specialty
Licenses/Certification Requirements
- RN License required; Current state nursing licenses or valid RN license from a participating state in the National Licensure Compact