Registered Nurse - OR Residency Program

This paid full time internship is open to current Registered Nurses or recent graduates who have an interest in perioperative nursing. The program offers a unique opportunity for new nurses and experienced nurses who want to work in the Operating Room. Learn how to be an O.R. Circulator and develop O.R. skills while on the job through an internship program. This program offers the AORN Periop 101 course with contact hours and CNOR certification reimbursement.

The O.R. interns will be trained via an online didactic course and through hands‑on skills that are essential to perioperative nursing. The course allows the nurse intern to learn in the clinical setting with coaching from the Education team and qualified staff. Upon completion, the nurse will then move to an available perioperative nurse position in one of the OR specialties offered at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital.

Delivers high quality patient-focused health care services that meet the assessed and individually planned needs and desires of all patients on the assigned nursing unit.

Minimum Education

• Diploma, Associate’s or Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited RN program

Required Certification/Registration

• Current unrestricted Louisiana RN license and BLS certification

• An 988-bed hospital and the area’s only Level II Trauma Center
• A 545-provider care network covering more than 40 specialties
• Two free- standing emergency rooms—Our Lady of the Lake Livingston and Our Lady of the Lake North
• A network of nearly 15 urgent-care clinics
• Our Lady of the Lake Ascension, a 78-bed community hospital providing emergency, inpatient, outpatient, and surgical services to Ascension Parish and surrounding area
• Afreestanding Children's Hospital
• Outpatient imaging and surgery centers
• Assumption Community Hospital
• Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University