Registered Nurse, Operating Room

Join our team as an Operating Room Registered Nurse! Our team gets to work with a variety of cases allowing you to gain a wide range of skills within the Operating Room. Regions Hospital has 21 operating rooms which includes a hybrid OR and two (2) da Vinci Xi robots. We are a busy OR with over 14,000 surgical procedures performed annually.

Under the direction of the Nurse Manager, this position is accountable for the following:

• * Oversees nursing care needs of the newborn, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients in the Operating Room
• * Implements nursing activities for operating room services and ensures compliance with all standard policies and procedures
• * Assists in operating procedures and implements nursing activities for cost effective and efficient operations in an operating room
• * Provides suggestions for optimizing existing work processes and resource allocation for an effective operating room
• * Ensures adherence to relevant policies and procedures for operating room nursing services
• * Promotes and ensures patient satisfaction with surgery and nursing care services
• * Performs other duties as assigned

This is a 0.8 FTE (64 hours per pay period). Shifts will be a mix of days (6:45a-3:00p) and evenings (3:00p-11p). Occasional Overnight (11p-7a) coverage, weekly call shift coverage, with weekend responsibilities every 8th Weekend. Holiday and vacation per seniority.

* O Applicants with an associate's degree in nursing must have 1 year (2080 hours) experience as a registered nurse

• * Completion of a baccalaureate program in nursing
• * Licensed Registered Nurse with Perioperative course or completion of a perioperative clinical rotation through a nursing program OR 1 year of operating room RN experience OR licensed registered nurse with 3 years of experience as a Surgical Technologist/Surgical Assistant/Instrument Processing Technician
• * Licensed registered nurse by State of Minnesota
• * Basic Life Support for Health Care Providers

Our benefits include medical insurance, dental insurance, 401k with match, disability insurance, and tuition reimbursement. Benefits take effect first day of employment. We offer an on-site employee fitness center, an on-site physical therapy clinic for employees as well as an on-site employee clinic to make it more convenient for our staff to get the care they need. We also have a Center for Employee Resilience that provides support and evidence-based practices to bring relief and build resiliency.

Regions is a qualified non-profit employer under the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. Regions is also proud to be a Yellow Ribbon Company.