Clinical Nurse Operating Room Trauma
About The Position
Barnes Jewish Hospital's OR Pod 2 Acute Critical Care/Trauma is seeking OR nurses to join their team. This fast-paced environment challenges clinical judgment and critical thinking while offering unparalleled opportunities for growth. Barnes-Jewish Hospital's trauma program has earned the distinction of Level I verification from the American College of Surgeons, the highest national recognition possible. The Perioperative Services team members find a fast-paced environment that will test their professional judgment and critical thinking skills, and encourage tremendous growth. It's an exhilarating place to build a career. Here, you'll work with world-renowned surgeons and anesthesiologists assist on unique and complex procedures, work with the latest technologies and treatments and play a vital role in developing new procedures and treatment protocols. In fact, people from all over the nation and the world come to Barnes-Jewish for our surgical specialties.
Requirements
- Passion for working in a close-knit team environment
- Commitment to the orientation process
- Learn to scrub and circulate
- Honor BJC values of kindness, safety, excellence, respect and teamwork
- Nursing Diploma/Associate's - Nursing
- No Experience
- No Experience
- RN
Nice To Haves
- BSN preferred will consider AD-N candidates
- Bachelor's Degree - Nursing
- <2 years experience
Responsibilities
- Provides direct patient care activities including assessment, diagnosis, planning implementation, and evaluation within the guidelines of the standards of nursing care.
- 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.
- The ability to work in a constant state of alertness and in a safe manner is an essential function of this job.
Benefits
- $20,000 Bonus eligible
- Student loan repayment assistance
- Comprehensive benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date
- Disability insurance paid for by BJC
- Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution
- 401(k) plan with BJC match
- Tuition Assistance available on first day
- BJC Institute for Learning and Development
- Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time
- Adoption assistance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Associate degree
