Registered Nurse (RN) - Surgery (OR)

Lifepoint Health•Roaring Spring, PA

14h•Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse (RN) - Surgery (OR) works in a high-acuity operating room serving General Surgery, Orthopedic, and Urology patients. The nurse collaborates with surgeons and perioperative professionals to provide individualized, safe, and consistent care throughout the perioperative continuum. The schedule is Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., with on-call duty approximately every 8–9 weekdays and every 8–9 weekends. Weekend call includes Friday night from 3:00 p.m. to Saturday at 7:00 a.m., plus 24-hour call on both Saturday and Sunday. The position offers a sign-on bonus of up to $20,000. Conemaugh Nason Medical Center is a 45-bed hospital serving rural and suburban communities in and around Roaring Spring and Altoona, Pennsylvania, and parts of Blair, Bedford, and Huntingdon counties. It provides emergency, cardiac, outpatient, imaging, diagnostic, and specialty services and is part of Lifepoint Health, a community-based healthcare network.

Requirements

Graduate of an RN program.
Current Pennsylvania nurse’s license or a current multistate license from a compact member state or territory.
Associate’s degree.
Basic Life Support (BLS).
Basic Trauma Nurse Course (BTNC) or equivalent training (ATCN, TCRN, or TNCC) obtained within one year of hire.
Ability to work irregular hours, including call hours.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree preferred.

Responsibilities

Perform interventions to ensure the procedure is performed on the correct site, side, and level.
Maintain wound and tissue perfusion at or above baseline levels.
Maintain the patient’s body systems and fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balances at or above baseline levels.
Ensure the patient is at or returned to normothermia at the conclusion of the immediate postoperative period.
Protect the patient from surgical site infection and injury from extraneous objects and chemical, electrical, laser, mechanical, and thermal sources.
Develop an individualized perioperative patient plan of care.
Document patient care accurately and completely.
Act as a patient advocate and maintain privacy and confidentiality of individuals and health information.
Provide consistent and comparable care regardless of setting.
Perform accounting procedures to protect the patient from unintended retained surgical items.
Transfer care as applicable and use handoffs for reporting.
Involve the patient or designated support person in decisions affecting perioperative care and rehabilitation.
Manage patient specimens according to organizational policy and procedures.
Maintain required competencies and assess patients at intervals specified by policy and procedure.
Communicate the patient’s current status to relevant parties throughout the continuum of care.
Administer medications safely and correctly.
Evaluate the patient’s progress toward attaining outcomes.
Assess the knowledge level of the patient or designated support person and provide education about expected psychosocial responses, nutrition, medications, pain, wounds, and expected responses to the procedure.
Provide age-specific, culturally competent, ethical care within legal standards of practice.
Participate in quality review and performance improvement projects.
Use problem-solving and conflict-resolution skills to foster effective work relationships with team members.

Benefits

Sign-on bonus of up to $20,000.
Multiple levels of medical, dental, and vision coverage for full-time and part-time employees.
Life, accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity insurance.
Short- and long-term disability coverage.
Paid family leave and paid time off.
Higher education and certification tuition assistance.
Loan assistance.
401(k) retirement package with company match.
Wellness programs, including free gym memberships, virtual care appointments, mental health services, and discount programs.
Ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities.