Registered Nurse Operating Room
About The Position
The Registered Nurse in the Operating Room at St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, Kansas, provides comprehensive circulating support in a surgical department with four OR suites and a GI suite. The department performs approximately 250–300 or more cases monthly across General, Orthopedics (including Totals, Sports Medicine, and Trauma), GYN, C-Sections, and Podiatry. The nurse serves patients across all age groups except neonates through two-year-olds and is cross-trained to support all service lines. Daily OR duties include intraoperative support, management of sterile instruments and supplies, room turnovers, and restocking for the following day’s cases. The nurse also advocates for patients and provides break relief and clinical assistance to support seamless care delivery. The RN facilitates communication and collaboration among the healthcare team and the patient and family to meet patients’ physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. The role promotes patient health, well-being, and safety through the nursing process, adherence to patient-care standards and the State Nurse Practice Act, and accountability for relationship-based care and the organization’s mission. The schedule is 40 hours per week, days, with variable shifts based on surgical volume and unit needs. Call is required for all full-time employees: 4–6 shifts per month in rotation with the OR team, with 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 licensure by endorsement.
- RN license in the state of employment.
- Ability to perform medium work: exert or lift up to 50 pounds occasionally, up to 20 pounds frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds constantly.
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 responses and intervene to support 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 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, manage sterile instruments and supplies, facilitate room turnovers, and restock for the following day’s cases.
- Provide patient advocacy, break relief, and clinical assistance during surgical care.
- Support all surgical service lines through cross-training.
Benefits
- $10,000 sign-on bonus for eligible new hires.
- Up to $10,000 relocation assistance for eligible new hires.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Associate degree
