Operating Room RN

BJC HealthCare•Belleville, IL

13h•Onsite

About The Position

This role is for an Operating Room Registered Nurse at Memorial Belleville Operating Room. It is a full-time position with options for 5-8 hour or 4-10 hour shifts, starting at 0645. The role requires call coverage and involves both scrubbing and circulating duties. The position is eligible for a sign-on bonus and a BSN differential. Nurses can also benefit from the BJC RN Career Ladder, which promotes professional development, leadership, collaboration, education, and service excellence, offering opportunities for career progression and pay increases aligned with new job descriptions. Memorial Hospital Belleville is an acute care hospital offering medical and surgical services, critical and emergency care, heart and vascular care, and is an accredited Chest Pain Center and Acute Stroke Ready Hospital. It has been Magnet®-recognized for nursing excellence since 2008. Memorial Hospital Shiloh, also Magnet status recognized, provides similar services. Perioperative Services, where this role is located, provides care and support for surgical, gastroenterology, treatment, Cardiac Cath Lab, and pain center patients, covering adult and pediatric patients throughout their perioperative stay for both inpatient and outpatient procedures.

Requirements

Nursing Diploma/Associate's - Nursing
No Experience
RN

Nice To Haves

BSN degree
Prior OR experience
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.

Benefits

Sign on bonus eligible
BSN Differential
BJC RN Career Ladder
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