RN Operating Room

Job Summary and Responsibilities

This position is eligible for up to a $25,000 sign‑on bonus AND up to $24,000 Student Loan Assistance

As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well‑being and recovery.

Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

To be successful in this role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient‑first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast‑paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.

• Maintain a safe surgical environment, which includes sterile technique, assisting anesthesia and/or the surgeon before, during or after cases, and preparing the operating room equipment.
• Prepare lab specimens and ensure instruments, implants, and supplies are ready based on the type of surgery; be able to circulate and or scrub a case based on the day's assignment.
• Provide conscious sedation to endoscopy patients, continuously and systematically assess the health status of the patient, prioritizing and reprioritizing care.
• Initiate and maintain an individualized plan of care to meet identified patient problems or needs, based on analysis of assessment data, standards of nursing care, and practice.
• Collaborate with patients, primary care providers, families, internal and community resources to coordinate patient discharge or transfer needs.
• Prioritize, perform, and delegate direct and/or indirect patient interventions necessary for the stabilization of trauma patients and for triaging patients; participate in patient and family teaching.

Required

• Registered Nurse:
  Kentucky, upon hire
• Basic Life Support – CPR, upon hire
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support, within 90 days
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support, within 90 days

• Circulating experience for the heart team

Welcome to Saint Joseph Hospital, a 433‑bed hospital founded in 1877 by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth as the first hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. Led by Sister Euphrasia Stafford, the mission to provide compassionate care to the underserved is still carried out today. Saint Joseph Hospital holds over two dozen national ranks and recognitions and is recognized as a 2024 Best Place to Work in Kentucky.

Saint Joseph is part of Common Spirit Health, a non‑profit, Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people. With approximately 175,000 team members and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians.

Our commitment to serve the common good is delivered through the dedicated work of thousands of physicians, advanced practice clinicians, nurses, and staff; through clinical excellence delivered across a system of 140 hospitals and more than 2,200 care centers serving 24 states.