Pediatric Operating Room RN - GI Service Area

Pediatric Operating Room RN - GI Service Area at BJC

The Pediatric Operating Room RN in the GI Service Area provides specialized nursing care to pediatric patients undergoing gastrointestinal endoscopic procedures. Responsibilities include preparing patients, assisting physicians during procedures, maintaining sterile environments, and ensuring patient safety and education. This role requires nursing licensure and prefers prior OR and GI procedural experience, supporting career development within a top-ranked children's hospital.

Location:

St. Louis Children's Hospital, One Children's Place, St. Louis, MO 63110

The GI Nurse specializes in providing care to patients undergoing endoscopic procedures, including preparing them for the procedure, assisting the physician during the procedure by handing instruments, maintaining a sterile environment, and adhering to infection control protocols.

• Benefits eligible
• Monday - Friday
• Days: 6:45am – 5:15pm (four shifts per week)
• On-call rotation (including weeknights, weekends, and holidays)

• The BJC Registered Nurse Career Ladder differentiates BJC as the place for nurses to work in the greater St. Louis area.
• This is a tool to empower nurses to work at the top of their license and own their career progression.
• The BJC RN Career Ladder promotes professional development, leadership, collaboration, education and service excellence and gives staff the opportunity to continue doing what they do best - caring for patients - while having the opportunity to advance to the next step in their career.
• Moves to higher ladder levels will result in a percentage increase of current pay that aligns with the new job description.

• Prior OR nursing experience, GI/Endoscopy preferred
• Prior procedural experience

St. Louis Children’s Hospital is dedicated to improving the health and lives of children. As one of the top-ranked children’s hospitals in the country, St. Louis Children’s provides care in more than 50 specialty areas through a dedicated team of physicians, nurses, staff and volunteers. Along with inpatient and outpatient medical care, the hospital offers education, wellness and injury-prevention programs to fulfill its mission to “do what’s right for kids.”

Providing comprehensive, high-quality care and serving as an advocate for children has been St. Louis Children’s commitment since its inception in 1879. Today, the hospital serves patients and families across a 300-mile service area, and has seen patients from all 50 states and more than 80 countries.

St. Louis Children’s consistently ranks among America’s Best Children’s Hospitals by U.S.News & World Report in all surveyed categories. In 2021, St. Louis Children’s was one of eight children’s hospitals to rank in the top 25 of all 10 specialties. The hospital’s academic and physician partner, Washington University School of Medicine, is one of the top-ranked medical schools in the United States.

Since 2005, St. Louis Children’s has been designated as a Magnet® hospital for nursing excellence from the American Nurses Credentialing Center® (ANCC).

• Promotes patient and family centered care in a healing environment. Educates patients and their families on how to manage their illness or injury, including post treatment home care needs and medication administration.
• Participates in activities that promote patient safety, quality and regulatory compliance. Participates in professional development.
• Develops, implements, and documents individual plans of care with defined goals in collaboration with other members of the interprofessional team and patient, family or caregiver in accordance with the established guidelines and standards of nursing care. Proactively plans and ensures communication of the plan of care across the continuum of care.
• Uses critical nursing skills to assess and evaluate physical, psychosocial, and emotional needs according to standards of care. Assess patient preferences and barriers to involvement in care, including their values, emotional, spiritual, cultural, and population-specific needs.
• BJC has determined this is a safety-sensitive position. The ability to work in a constant state of alertness and in a safe manner is an essential function of this job.

• Nursing Diploma/Associate's

• No Experience

• No Experience

• RN

• Bachelor's Degree