Registered Nurse (RN) – Operating Room

Fairview Health Services•Edina, MN

3h•Onsite

About The Position

Fairview is hiring a Registered Nurse to join the Operating Room team at Southdale Hospital in Edina, Minnesota. The team includes surgical technologists, nursing assistants, schedulers, instrument technicians, and doctors. The RN helps provide high-quality, patient-safe care in a team-supported environment and serves as a circulator or scrub during operative procedures. The role establishes a safe environment for surgical patients and assesses, diagnoses, implements, and evaluates treatments and procedures that contribute to their physiological stability. The RN is responsible for assessing, planning, delivering, and evaluating nursing care for assigned patient populations in accordance with policies, procedures, professional practice guidelines, and the Minnesota Nurse Practice Act. The RN coordinates care with the healthcare team and delegates responsibilities as appropriate. The posting describes a day/evening position with rotating eight-hour shifts, weekend rotation, holidays, and on-call responsibilities. It gives two schedule descriptions: 64 hours every two weeks and .9 FTE (72 hours per pay period). Southdale has 26 operating rooms and performs over 14,000 surgeries annually, including cardiothoracic, neurosurgery, orthopedic, and general surgeries. It is a major hub for Da Vinci surgery and has been named a Blue Cross Blue Shield Distinction Center for Spine Surgery and Hip and Knee Replacement.

Requirements

Minnesota Registered Nurse (RN) license.
Basic Life Support certification from the American Heart Association or Red Cross.
One year of current RN operating room experience or completion of Fairview's Periop 101 program.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in Nursing or BAN.
One to three years of experience.
Scrub experience.
RN work experience in a main Operating Room with cross-team training is strongly preferred.
EPIC experience.
Experience supporting adults.

Responsibilities

Assess patient needs and identify expected nursing outcomes.
Collaborate with patients, families, and other healthcare team members to develop a nursing plan as part of an integrated, comprehensive plan of care.
Develop individualized plans based on age, social and cultural considerations, condition, and other relevant needs.
Evaluate care and patient responses to interventions and expected outcomes.
Communicate and collaborate effectively and respectfully with patients, families, and healthcare team members within and across care settings to promote partnership-based healthcare.
Advance care using standards, guidelines, care pathways, and continuous improvement to enhance patient outcomes.
Promote a culture of evidence-based practice.
Establish a safe environment for surgical patients and serve as a circulator or scrub during operative procedures.
Coordinate care with healthcare team members and delegate responsibilities as appropriate.