Registered Nurse (RN) OR Advanced Endoscopy

Fairview Health Services•Minneapolis, MN

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Fairview Health Services is hiring a Registered Nurse to join the Operating Room Advanced Endoscopy Team at University of Minnesota Medical Center East Bank in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The role serves an all-adult patient population and works with a team that includes surgical technologists, nursing assistants, schedulers, instrument technicians, and physicians. The OR completes an average of 45–50 scheduled cases per day. The RN establishes a safe environment for surgical patients and assesses, diagnoses, implements, and evaluates care and procedures that support their physiological stability. The RN may serve as a circulator or scrub during operative procedures and is responsible for assessment, planning, delivery, and evaluation of nursing care in accordance with policies, procedures, professional practice guidelines, and the Minnesota Nurse Practice Act. The RN coordinates care with the health care team and delegates responsibilities as appropriate. The position is scheduled for 80 hours every two weeks on rotating day, evening, and night shifts, mostly days. Shifts are eight hours, with start times varying between 6:30 a.m. and 9:00 a.m., Monday through Friday. The schedule includes weekday call as needed and currently one weekend shift, usually call, per schedule period.

Requirements

Minnesota Registered Nurse license.
Basic Life Support certification from the American Heart Association or Red Cross.
Operating Room registered nurse experience, and/or successful completion of the AORN Peri-op 101 course, and/or clinical experience as a Certified Surgical Technologist, IR Tech, or Endoscopy Tech, or completion of an OR internship.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Nursing.
One year of Operating Room Registered Nurse experience, or two years of Surg Tech or Endoscopy Tech experience in a GI specialty.

Responsibilities

Establish a safe environment for surgical patients and assess, diagnose, implement, and evaluate treatments and procedures that contribute to their physiological stability.
Serve as a circulator or scrub during operative procedures as needed.
Implement protective measures before operative or invasive procedures to prevent skin or tissue injury from thermal, mechanical, electrical, or chemical sources.
Confirm patient identity and verify the procedure, surgical site, and laterality before operative or invasive procedures.
Apply safety devices, perform required counts, and manage specimen handling and disposition.
Demonstrate knowledge of patients’ and families’ psychological, sociological, and spiritual responses to operative or invasive procedures.
Apply aseptic technique when establishing and maintaining sterile fields.
Perform skin preparations, monitor for wound contamination, and classify surgical wounds.
Ensure perioperative environmental sanitation.
Assess patient needs and identify expected nursing outcomes.
Collaborate with patients, families, and health team members to develop nursing plans as part of integrated, comprehensive plans of care.
Develop individualized plans based on age, social and cultural considerations, condition, and other relevant needs.
Evaluate care, patient responses to interventions, and expected outcomes.
Communicate and collaborate effectively and respectfully with patients, families, and health care team members across care settings to promote partnership-based health care.
Advance care by using standards, guidelines, care pathways, and continuous improvement to enhance patient outcomes.
Promote a culture of evidence-based practice.
Coordinate care with members of the health care team and delegate responsibilities as appropriate.
Perform nursing responsibilities in accordance with applicable policies, procedures, professional practice guidelines, and the Minnesota Nurse Practice Act.