Operating Room Registered Nurse; OR RN - ORMC

Position Summary

The RN Advanced Care functions as a Circulating Nurse in the fast‑paced Operating Room at a Level 1 Trauma facility and renders patient care to patients undergoing either elective or emergent procedures from various specialties.

• Demonstrates critical knowledge, skills, and judgement to care for patients requiring complex assessment and therapies, high‑intensity interventions, and high‑level continuous nursing vigilance.
• Utilizes information and assessment data to anticipate and respond with confidence and adapt to rapidly changing patient conditions.
• Identifies and prioritizes information to take immediate and decisive evidence‑based, patient‑focused action.
• Monitors and adjusts specialized equipment used on patients and interprets and records electronic displays, such as intracranial pressures, central venous pressures, pulmonary artery pressures, and cardiac rhythms from cardiac monitors, respirators, ventilators, oxygen pumps, etc.
• Responds to life‑saving situations based on nursing standards and protocol.
• Observes, monitors, and assesses patients’ condition, recognizes and interprets serious situations, and calls a physician or takes pre‑planned emergency measures when a physician is not immediately available.
• Assesses patients’ needs and develops/revises an individualized plan of care based on patient needs and responses and evaluates the patient’s progress toward attaining expected outcomes.
• Respects diversity by building respectful relationships with all team members and customers.
• Functions as a patient and family advocate.
• Demonstrates advanced knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served on his or her assigned unit/department.
• Serves as a preceptor, charge nurse, unit educator, and/ or nurse clinician.
• Communicates and collaborates with medical staff and interdisciplinary team to effectively plan and manage the unit/department.
• Serves as a role model for staff and supports the hospital and nursing department’s goals and strategies.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the lifespan and assesses the data to identify each patient’s requirements relative to his or her age‑specific needs.

• Education/Training: Graduate of an approved school of nursing.
• Licensure/Certification: Maintains current State of Florida RN license or valid eNLC multistate RN license; maintains current BLS/Healthcare Provider certification; ACLS, TNCC required for certain areas.
• Experience: Minimum of two (2) years of Operating Room Circulating Nurse experience required.