RN OR Weekend Nights NO CALL

Operating Room Nurse Position

Baylor Scott & White Temple is hiring for an Operating Room Nurse position. This is a full-time role for the weekend night shift with no call. The schedule is 7pm-7am on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday with an enhanced weekend shift differential.

Our team is trained in 13 different specialties including robotics, ortho, spine, neuro, cardiovascular, general/bariatrics, gyn, plastics, surgical oncology, urology, ENT, and transplant. We provide additional training for our neuro and cardiac teams. We perform a variety of open, laparoscopic, and robotic procedures across multiple service lines, including multiple laser and microscope procedures.

We have 33 operating rooms, 3 hybrid rooms for neurovascular and vascular procedures, 4 Da Vinci robots, 2 Mako robots, and 1 Ion.

We emphasize excellent teamwork and collaboration among nursing staff, surgeons, residents, and anesthesia providers. We provide incredible care to our patients and are part of fascinating surgeries that are life-changing for some of our patients. We have a great team environment where everyone works together to ensure our patients have a great surgical experience.

Job Summary The Operating Room (OR) Registered Nurse (RN) is a licensed professional who uses the BSWH nursing professional practice model to coordinate patient care delivery by the health care team. Using the nursing process, the RN assesses the patient, identifies nursing diagnoses based on responses to health problems, develops and implements an individualized plan of care, and evaluates the patient's response.

The RN promotes safe passage for their patients by using knowledge of patient needs and the healthcare environment to assist patients to transition through the healthcare encounter without any preventable complications or delays. The RN delegates interventions to health care personnel based on the Texas Nursing Practice Act, each patient's condition, and the competencies of the employee.

Essential Functions of the Role

• Clinical Judgment:
  Using clinical reasoning, conducts accurate clinical assessments according to practice standards. Identifies and prioritizes patient and family needs. Develops, implements, and evaluates the nursing plan of care. Modifies plan to meet clinical outcomes.
• Clinical Inquiry:
  Systematically evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice, including, but not limited to, nursing sensitive indicators. Supports evidence-based practice changes through research utilization and experiential learning. Participates in quality/performance improvement initiatives.
• Caring Practices:
  Creates a compassionate, supportive, safe, and therapeutic environment for patients, families, and staff. Develops therapeutic relationships with patient and family and maintains appropriate boundaries. Manages both emotional and physical pain with the aim of promoting comfort and healing and preventing unnecessary suffering.
• Response to Diversity:
  Recognizes, appreciates, and incorporates a patient's and family's unique differences, such as culture, spiritual beliefs, gender, race, ethnicity, lifestyle, socioeconomic status, age, and values, into an individualized plan of care.
• Advocacy and Moral Agency:
  Preserves and protects the confidentiality, autonomy, dignity, and rights of patient and family and represents their concerns. Creates an individualized plan that accurately reflects patient and family values and goals. Identifies and helps resolve ethical and clinical concerns.
• Facilitation of Learning:
  Facilitates learning for patients and families, nursing staff, other members of the health care team, and community; integrating appropriate education throughout the continuum of care to help them participate and/or make informed decisions about their health care and treatments, including health promotion and disease prevention. Assesses and documents learning needs and outcomes.
• Collaboration:
  
  Works collaboratively and interdependently with colleagues and community to develop and implement an integrated plan of care. Open and sensitive to all team members unique contributions. Delegates tasks and care to appropriate staff and ensures timely follow-up.
• Systems Thinking:
  Uses strategies and available resources for problem-solving for patients, family, and staff. Recognizes that resources are limited and considers factors related to safety, effectiveness, and efficiency in planning and delivering patient care.
• Professionalism:
  Improves nursing practice and the work environment through participating in shared governance and decision-making processes and meaningfully recognizing the contributions of others. Participates in the staffing process from education and planning to evaluation. Identifies personal goals and commits to ongoing professional growth through continuing education, networking with professional colleagues, membership and involvement in professional nursing organizations, self-study, professional reading, certification, and seeking…