Registered Nurse Operating Room

CommonSpirit Health•Garden City, KS

About The Position

The Registered Nurse in the Operating Room at St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, Kansas, provides circulating support in a surgical department with four operating room suites and a GI suite. The department performs approximately 250–300 or more cases per month across General Surgery, Orthopedics (including Total Joint, Sports Medicine, and Trauma), GYN, C-sections, and Podiatry. The nurse is cross-trained to support all service lines and serves patients of all age groups except neonates through two-year-olds. The role includes intraoperative support, management of sterile instruments and supplies, room turnovers, and restocking for the next day’s cases. The nurse also provides break relief and clinical assistance, and advocates for patients throughout the surgical process. More broadly, the RN collaborates with the healthcare team and patients and families to meet physical, emotional, and spiritual needs, promote patient health and safety, and provide compassionate, relationship-based care in accordance with nursing standards, organizational mission, and the State Nurse Practice Act. This is a PRN position. Per policy, PRN staff must be available for at least five shifts in each six-week schedule block. No holidays, weekends, or call are required.

Requirements

Associate Degree in Nursing, nursing diploma, or RN licensure by endorsement.
RN license in the state of employment.
Commitment to compassionate, high-quality patient care.
Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Ability to apply the nursing process effectively.
PRN availability for a minimum of five shifts in each six-week schedule block.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing.
One year of experience.
Previous operating room experience is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

Facilitate communication and collaboration among the healthcare team, patient, and family to meet the patient’s physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.
Promote patient health, well-being, and safety through the nursing process and in accordance with patient care standards, guidelines, and the State Nurse Practice Act.
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 support optimal outcomes.
Develop and implement plans of care and observe outcomes in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
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, needs, and ability to learn; provide education and evaluate its effectiveness.
Provide intraoperative circulating support and manage sterile instruments and supplies.
Facilitate efficient operating room turnovers and restock for the following day’s cases.
Provide patient advocacy, break relief, and clinical assistance during surgical care.