RN - OR - MGH
About The Position
The Registered Nurse (RN) provides individualized nursing care and is accountable for interpreting medical care plans, assessing patients and making clinical decisions about nursing care, ensuring care is safe and competent, and evaluating care for groups of patients. The role is based in Lunder 4 OR at the MGH Main Campus. This eleven-room operating room unit serves neurosurgical, vascular surgery, and interventional radiology patients. It handles high-volume Level I trauma cases as well as scheduled surgeries and uses biplane hybrid suites for interventional radiology imaging, CT, and intraoperative MRI. The multidisciplinary team includes nurses, surgeons, technicians, anesthesiologists, and engaged nursing leadership. The unit operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The schedule is 40 hours per week on a rotating day, evening, and night schedule, including weekends, holidays, and on-call duty. The posting identifies a minimum of 1–2 years of OR RN experience as ideal. The position is onsite at 90 Blossom Street.
Requirements
- Associate’s degree in nursing required; a bachelor’s degree in nursing is preferred.
- Registered Nurse state license required.
- Clinical nursing experience of 0–1 year required.
- The role cannot accept experience in lieu of a degree.
- Familiarity with principles and skills needed for practical nursing and patient care.
- Knowledge of care requirements for the age groups served.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and secure sensitive information.
- Knowledge of medical terminology.
- Excellent verbal and communication skills.
- Ability to accurately screen and triage acute patients.
Nice To Haves
- A minimum of 1–2 years of operating room RN experience is identified as ideal.
Responsibilities
- Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records.
- Administer medications and monitor patients for reactions or side effects.
- Record patients’ medical information and vital signs.
- Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patients’ conditions.
- Consult and coordinate with healthcare team members to assess, plan, implement, or evaluate patient care plans.
- Modify patient treatment plans based on patients’ responses and conditions.
- Interpret plans of medical care, assess patients, make clinical decisions regarding nursing care, provide individualized care, and evaluate nursing care for groups of patients.
- Provide patient care in a safe and competent manner.
Benefits
- Opportunities for growth and development.
- Free parking for nights and weekends.
- Tax-sheltered annuity plan.
- Employee discounts on tickets and passes for ski resorts, museums, and sporting events.
- Comprehensive benefits, career advancement opportunities, differentials, premiums and bonuses as applicable, and recognition programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Associate degree
