Registered Nurse Operating Room

Job Summary and Responsibilities

Nurses are at the heartbeat of our organization and your time will be spent in a supportive, team environment with resources to help you flourish and leaders who care about your success. We offer Certification pay and a Clinical Career Ladder to help you grow and recognize your contributions to clinical excellence!

Here, you will help advance modern nursing by providing your skills, experience, and commitment to compassionate care. The impact you will make in our faith‑based, mission‑driven culture will cultivate excellence and achieve professional fulfillment united in human kindness.

• Facilitating, communicating, and collaborating with both the healthcare team and the patient/family to identify and meet the patient’s physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.
• Promote the optimal health, well‑being and safety of the patient through use of the nursing process and in accordance with patient care standards, guidelines and the State Nurse Practice Act.
• Demonstrate personal accountability for relationship‑based care, organizational mission, and core values.

• Circulate and/or Scrub on all cases.
• Primarily, Spine, Ortho (Totals/Smaller Sports medicine cases), Robotics, Urology, plastics, ENT, GYN, Eyes, Dental, Gen.
• Associates are cross trained for all services, no specialized service Teams.
• 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.

9 OR Suites-1 dedicated labor and delivery suite. Labor Delivery attends C-Sections

Approx. 20-30+ cases per Day

Schedule:

30hrs/ Week
- Variable shifts per surgical volume and current unit needs

Call Required-Approx 5 call shifts in 6 weeks – weeknights and 700-1900,  on weekends

30min Callback radius required. Sleep rooms available in House

In addition to bringing human kindness to the workplace each day, qualified nursing candidates will need the following:

• 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

• One year experience preferred
• Nursing skills and knowledge base specific to specialty

• RN License required;
  Current state nursing licenses or valid RN license from a participating state in the National Licensure Compact

• Medium Work - (Exert up to 50lbs force occasionally, and/or up to 20lbs frequently, and/or up to 10lbs constantly)

At Common Spirit Mountain Region, we believe in the healing power of humanity and serving the common good through our dedicated work and shared mission to celebrate human kindness.

The Surgery department at Mercy Regional Medical Center is a Level III operating room that treats spine, ortho, ENT, GYN patients, a few eye surgeries, some dental, plastics and a mix of general surgical procedures. We have seven ORs with two dedicated to outpatient cases and are strictly surgical for patients one year old and above. We provide care to the Four Corners region and see patients from all over, including occasional trauma.

Our department is service oriented, and we care for one another so we all can have a great quality of life and a safe work environment. To be part of this team, individuals must have strong OR skills, be honest, punctual, reliable and have a sense that every day they put their best foot forward for their community and patients.

We are a close team of individuals working together to ensure the best possible outcomes for our patients. Robotics, Spine, General, Urology, Plastics, Orthopedics and total joint arthroplasty, sports medicine, ENT experience preferred but not required.

- Hiring Manager

Unless directed by a Collective Bargaining Agreement, applications for this position will be considered on a rolling basis. Common Spirit Health cannot anticipate the date by which a successful candidate may be identified.