Registered Nurse - Operating Room

Lehigh Valley Health Network • Bethlehem, PA

8d • Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse - Operating Room directs and manages care for designated operative patients, performs ongoing patient assessments, creates and maintains a safe environment, and implements and enforces policies and procedures. The nurse handles instruments, supplies, and equipment needed during surgical procedures and develops perioperative nursing care plans based on patient assessments, including physical, psychosocial, cultural, growth, and development dimensions.

The role contributes to patient care before, during, and after surgery through circulating and scrub functions, collaboration with physicians and interdisciplinary team members, and proactive resolution of patient needs. The position is onsite at Lehigh Valley Hospital–Muhlenberg, on the evening shift, with a work schedule of 1100–2330 and an on-call requirement.

Requirements

• Specialized Diploma in Nursing.
• Less than one year of current operating room experience or completion of a perioperative internship program.
• Ability to perform assessments and nursing functions acquired in a basic nursing preparation program.
• Ability to plan, review, supervise, and inspect the work of others.
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Minimum ability to circulate surgical procedures.
• American Heart Association Basic Life Support certification for Pennsylvania.
• Registered Nurse license in Pennsylvania.

Nice To Haves

• Ability to scrub surgical procedures.
• CNOR - Certified Nurse Operating Room certification (CCICBPN, Pennsylvania).

Responsibilities

• Assist the operating physician with surgical tasks such as hemostasis, suturing, wound exposure, and patient positioning.
• Contribute to the patient's care before, during, and after surgery using technical and mechanical functions.
• Perform circulating functions, including monitoring, recording, and communicating the patient's condition and managing overall nursing care before, during, and after procedures.
• Perform scrub functions, including selecting and handling instruments and supplies used during procedures.
• Collaborate and communicate with physicians and interdisciplinary team members, and proactively resolve patient needs.
• Inspect sterile items for integrity before opening or delivery to the sterile field and verify chemical indicators in all loads are present and show appropriate color change.
• Collect and analyze healthcare consumer assessment data to determine actual or potential diagnoses, problems, and issues.
• Control the care environment, including temperature, warm blankets, warm irrigation fluids, sensory environment, traffic flow, and adherence to safety and sanitation policies.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Associate degree