Operating Room

Registered Nurse - Surgery Center

Location:

Mercy Cedar Rapids Downtown Surgery Center

Schedule:

Monday-Friday | Call every 7th Weekend from  and rotating holidays  (1 holiday/calendar year)

Hours:

40 hours/week (Full-time pay & benefits)

A Rare Opportunity in Outpatient Surgery

Are you an RN that thrives on routine looking for a fulfilling Monday-Friday role? Join Mercy Cedar Rapids at our Surgery Center where you’ll work with a dedicated surgical team specializing in anything ranging from carpal tunnel all the way to open-heart surgery. You will see Urology, Neurology, Gynecology, Plastics, Trauma and more!

This is a rare chance to step into a high-functioning surgical environment while making a meaningful impact on patients’ lives.

Why Choose Mercy Cedar Rapids

• Independent and locally managed for over 120 years
• Consistent weekday schedule — excellent for work-life balance
• Full benefits with a $15,000 sign-on bonus
• Supportive team-based culture where your voice matters
• Opportunities to grow within a high-performing surgical team

What You’ll Do

As an RN in the Surgery Center you will:

• Deliver safe high-quality patient-centered intra-operative care
• Demonstrate critical thinking and anticipate the needs of the surgical team
• Maintain proper sterile technique and a safe environment
• Ensure accurate and complete documentation
• Collaborate within a respectful compassionate and team-focused culture

Job Description

Job Duties

• Ensures that accurate and clinically relevant information is communicated with patients, their families, and co-workers at hand offs and other times as needed.
• Demonstrates competent assessment, planning, intervention, coordination, and evaluation skills based on the individual patient plan of care.
• Continually assesses patient and family needs in order to provide quality care based on a patient-centered care model.
• Demonstrates critical thinking skills and judgment necessary to implement a patient plan of care, nursing interventions, and procedures.
• Maintains accurate and real-time documentation of nursing care provided to ensure the integration of information for use by the healthcare team according to hospital policy and procedure related to documentation parameters.
• Functions as a role model for current and new staff by creating a healthy work environment to facilitate the department’s or unit’s ability to meet identified goals and objectives.
• Demonstrates respect and regard for the dignity of all patients, families, visitors, and fellow employees to ensure a professional, responsible, and courteous environment.
• Directs other licensed and non-licensed personnel in the provision of care to patients as assigned.
• Demonstrates effective and age-appropriate communication as well as the ability to understand the needs of the patient including non-verbal communication, fears, anxieties, and language/cultural barriers.
• Responds within scope of practice to emergencies and life-threatening conditions.
• Adheres to and promotes patient safety practices throughout the patient experience.
• Communicates and collaborates effectively with all members of the healthcare team.
• Provides ongoing education to patients and families.
• Delegates to other staff registered nurse licensed practical nurses certified nursing assistants patient care technicians unit secretaries and other staff positions specific to the department.
• Remains current on Evidence-based practice as well as appropriate Protocols and Procedures.
• Follows Mercy’s safety guidelines carries out job-specific safety duties and responsibilities and promptly reports any unsafe conditions, situations, incidents, and injuries.

Department Specific Duties

• For OPSC:
  Maintains high success rate for IV starts on first attempt. Processes patient through the surgical experience in a timely fashion to maintain departmental efficiencies. Remains flexible with dynamic work schedule to meet staffing needs.
• For PASE:
  Interviews patient in-person and/or on phone to prepare for surgical day. Educates patient and/or family member for surgical experience. Creates initial assessment along with home medication and allergy list. Reviews charts for appropriate documentation to prevent cancellation of…