Registered Nurse Operating Room
About The Position
The Registered Nurse in the Operating Room at Ortho Colorado provides direct patient advocacy and clinical support in an orthopedic specialty hospital. The surgical department has eight operating rooms and averages 450–550 or more procedures per month, focusing on total joint replacements, spine surgery, and sports medicine. The hospital also has pre-operative, PACU, and inpatient services, with specialty-trained staff caring for orthopedic patients throughout the care continuum. The RN facilitates communication and collaboration among the healthcare team, patients, and families to address patients’ physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. The nurse promotes patient health, well-being, and safety through the nursing process, follows patient-care standards and the State Nurse Practice Act, and demonstrates accountability for relationship-based care and the organization’s mission. This is a PRN position with variable weekdays and start times based on surgical volume and unit needs. The schedule is determined with the OR manager during interviews and is created every six weeks. PRN staff must be available for at least five shifts per six-week schedule block. There are no nights, weekends, holidays, or call requirements.
Requirements
- Associate’s degree in Nursing, nursing diploma, or RN license by endorsement in the state of employment.
- Registered Nurse license in the state of employment.
- At least one year of experience.
- Availability for at least five shifts in each six-week schedule block.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree in Nursing.
- Previous operating-room experience, especially with orthopedic or sports medicine cases.
Responsibilities
- Assess patients’ physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs through observation, interviews, and review of medical records and clinical data.
- Evaluate patients’ responses and intervene to support optimal outcomes.
- Develop and implement patient care plans, observe outcomes, and collaborate with the interdisciplinary team in accordance with nursing standards.
- Perform circulating functions and provide intraoperative support, including management of sterile instruments and supplies.
- Facilitate operating-room turnovers and restock rooms for subsequent procedures.
- Demonstrate competency in therapeutic and diagnostic interventions, including IVs, incision and wound care, medication administration, catheterization, and specimen collection.
- Maintain patient charts and records thoroughly and confidentially.
- Document patient status, interventions, responses, and outcomes accurately and promptly.
- Use information technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.
- Promote, advocate for, and collaborate to protect each patient’s health, safety, and rights.
- Assess patient and family readiness and needs for learning; provide education and evaluate its effectiveness.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Associate degree
