RN New Graduate Nurse OR

UNC Health•Lenoir, NC

5d•Onsite

About The Position

UNC Health Caldwell Surgical Services is seeking a new graduate Registered Nurse to provide competent clinical nursing care consistent with professional standards in a hospital setting. Reporting and accountable to the Nurse Manager/Director, the Clinical Nurse coordinates and delivers patient care using the nursing process. The role is based in the Operating Room at Caldwell Memorial Hospital in Lenoir, North Carolina, and is an onsite, full-time position with a day schedule and 40 standard hours per week. The nurse collaborates with surgeons, nurses, surgical technologists, CRNAs, and support staff to provide patient care. The department uses the latest medical equipment and offers self-scheduling. The schedule has no weekends, holidays, or call. UNC Health also describes tuition reimbursement, a Nursing Clinical Ladder for professional advancement, competitive salary rates, and benefits.

Requirements

Graduate of a Board of Nursing-approved nursing education program.
Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in North Carolina by the day of clinical care.
Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Provider certification.
No prior professional experience required.

Responsibilities

Identify and meet personal learning needs, attend relevant education programs, and use appropriate patient education materials with assistance.
Assess patients’ and families’ readiness to learn, developmental levels, and factors affecting their ability to learn.
Identify expected patient outcomes, seek guidance when revising care plans, participate in interdisciplinary evaluation of care, and communicate relevant information to support continuity of care.
Provide care for patients with complex problems, addressing appropriate physical, psychosocial, educational, and safety needs.
Perform bedside point-of-care testing as required by the patient care plan and follow organizational and nursing standards, policies, and procedures.
Organize and prioritize care according to patient and family needs, and consult appropriate resources regarding complex care issues, unusual teaching needs, or discharge-planning risks.
Develop professional-growth goals with assistance, meet goals within identified time frames or renegotiate them with a supervisor, and participate in unit goals and performance-improvement activities.
Support intra- and interdepartmental collaboration, use communication systems effectively, promote cost-effective care, provide feedback to coworkers, and remain aware of applicable public-policy and regulatory guidelines.
Promote a safe, clean, and secure hospital environment.
Assess complex situations to determine care priorities, synthesize assessment data before communicating it, and anticipate patient and family discharge needs.
Build relationships with families that support their ability to advocate for the patient and address their own needs.
Collaborate with patients and families to prepare or update plans of care, use multidisciplinary resources, address cultural and ethnic issues, and prioritize tasks for patients with complex problems.
Read relevant research and professional publications and bring ideas and questions to staff for consideration of their applicability to practice.