Registered Nurse Operating Room

CommonSpirit Health•Garden City, KS

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse Operating Room provides comprehensive circulating support in the surgical department at St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, Kansas. The department has four operating room suites and a GI suite and handles approximately 250–300 or more cases per month. Services include General, Orthopedics (Totals, Sports Medicine, and Trauma), GYN, C-sections, and Podiatry. Patients are of all age groups except neonates through two-year-olds. The nurse will be cross-trained to support all service lines. Responsibilities include intraoperative support, managing sterile instruments and supplies, facilitating room turnovers, and restocking for the following day's cases. The nurse also serves as a patient advocate and provides break relief and clinical assistance to support seamless care. The RN facilitates communication and collaboration among the healthcare team and the patient and family, addressing patients' physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. The role promotes patient health, well-being, and safety through the nursing process and adherence to patient care standards, guidelines, the State Nurse Practice Act, relationship-based care, and the organization's mission. The position is 40 hours per week on variable day shifts determined by surgical volume and unit needs. Full-time employees are required to take call, with a rotation of 4–6 call shifts per month and a required 30-minute callback radius. A $10,000 sign-on bonus and up to $10,000 in relocation assistance are offered to eligible new hires.

Requirements

Associate degree in Nursing, nursing diploma, or RN license by endorsement.
RN license in the state of employment.
Ability to meet the stated physical demands of medium work: exert or lift up to 50 pounds occasionally, up to 20 pounds frequently, and up to 10 pounds constantly.
Full-time employees must participate in call: 4–6 shifts per month in rotation with the OR team.
Must meet the required 30-minute callback radius.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in Nursing.
Previous operating room experience is highly preferred.
One year of experience.

Responsibilities

Assess patients' physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs through observation, interview, and review of medical records and clinical data.
Evaluate patient responses and intervene to promote optimal outcomes.
Develop and implement patient plans of care, observe outcomes, and collaborate with the interdisciplinary team in accordance with nursing standards.
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 in a timely manner.
Use information technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate errors, and support decision-making.
Promote, advocate for, and collaborate to protect each patient's health, safety, and rights.
Assess patient and family readiness, learning needs, and ability; provide education and evaluate its effectiveness.
Provide circulating and other intraoperative support, including management of sterile instruments and supplies.
Facilitate efficient operating room turnovers and restock for the following day's cases.
Serve as a patient advocate and provide break relief and clinical assistance.
Cross-train and support all surgical service lines.