Registered Nurse - Operating Room

Lehigh Valley Health Network • Allentown, PA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse - Operating Room directs and manages care for designated operative patients. The nurse performs ongoing assessments, creates and maintains a safe environment, and implements and enforces policies and procedures. The role handles the instruments, supplies, and equipment necessary during surgical procedures and develops perioperative nursing care plans based on physical, psychosocial, cultural, growth, and developmental dimensions of patient assessment.

The position contributes to patient care before, during, and after surgery through circulating and scrub functions, technical and mechanical tasks, collaboration with physicians and interdisciplinary team members, and maintenance of a safe surgical environment. The role is based onsite at Lehigh Valley Hospital - Cedar Crest, with a variable Monday–Friday schedule of 7:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m. and 8:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

Requirements

• Specialized Diploma in Nursing.
• Less than one year of current operating room experience or completion of a perioperative internship program.
• Ability to perform assessments and nursing functions acquired in a basic nursing preparation program.
• Ability to plan, review, supervise, and inspect the work of others.
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Minimum ability to circulate surgical procedures.
• American Heart Association Basic Life Support certification for Pennsylvania.
• Registered Nurse license for Pennsylvania.

Nice To Haves

• Ability to scrub surgical procedures.
• CNOR - Certified Nurse Operating Room certification (CCICBPN, Pennsylvania).

Responsibilities

• Assist the operating physician with surgical tasks such as homeostasis, suturing, wound exposure, and patient positioning.
• Contribute to patient care before, during, and after surgery by using technical and mechanical functions.
• Perform circulating functions, including monitoring, recording, and communicating patient condition and managing overall nursing care throughout the procedure.
• Perform scrub functions, including selecting and handling instruments and supplies used during procedures.
• Collaborate and communicate with physicians and interdisciplinary team members, and proactively take action to resolve patient needs.
• Inspect sterile items for integrity before opening or delivery to the sterile field, and verify the presence and appropriate color change of chemical indicators in all loads.
• Collect and analyze assessment data to determine actual or potential diagnoses, problems, and issues.
• Control the environment, including temperature, warm blankets, warm irrigation fluids, the sensory environment, and traffic flow, while adhering to safety and sanitation policies.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Associate degree