RN Operating Room Neuro Team
About The Position
Registered Nurses on the Neuro Specialty Team at St. Anthony Hospital provide dedicated circulating support for the neurosurgery service line within a 17-suite surgical department. The facility manages an average of 900–950 cases per month across specialties including General, Ortho (Trauma), Spine, Eyes, ENT, GU, Robotics (DaVinci XI/SI), Vascular, Endovascular, Cardiac, and Trauma OB/GYN. Although the Neuro team focuses on neurosurgery, staff are cross-trained to support other surgical specialties and may float to the main OR as departmental volume requires. Daily duties include delivering sterile instruments and supplies, facilitating room turnovers, restocking for the next day’s cases, and providing break coverage. The RN acts as a consistent patient advocate throughout the perioperative experience. The RN facilitates communication and collaboration among the healthcare team and patient/family to address the patient’s physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. The role promotes patient health, well-being, and safety through the nursing process, applicable care standards, guidelines, and the State Nurse Practice Act, while demonstrating accountability for relationship-based care and the organization’s mission. The schedule is 36 hours per week, days, with variable days of the week and shift start times based on surgical volume and unit needs. Rotating call is required, including evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays, with a required 30-minute callback radius. A specialty team differential is available. The posting offers a $20,000 sign-on bonus and up to $10,000 in relocation assistance to eligible new hires.
Requirements
- Associate Degree in Nursing, nursing diploma, or RN license by endorsement in the state of employment.
- RN license in the state of employment.
- Ability to work 36 hours per week on variable days and with variable shift start times based on surgical volume and unit needs.
- Ability to participate in rotating call, including evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays.
- Ability to meet the required 30-minute callback radius.
- Medium work: exert or lift up to 50 lbs. occasionally, up to 20 lbs. frequently, and/or up to 10 lbs. constantly.
Nice To Haves
- Previous operating room experience is highly preferred.
- Previous experience with neurological surgeries is highly preferred.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing.
- One year of experience.
Responsibilities
- Provide circulating support for the neurosurgery service line and, as needed, other surgical specialties.
- Deliver sterile instruments and supplies, facilitate timely room turnovers, restock for the following day’s cases, and provide break coverage.
- Act as a consistent patient advocate throughout the perioperative experience.
- Facilitate communication and collaboration with the healthcare team and patient/family to meet the patient’s physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.
- Promote patient health, well-being, and safety through the nursing process and applicable nursing standards, guidelines, and the State Nurse Practice Act.
- Assess patients’ physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs through observation, interview, and review of medical records and clinical data.
- Evaluate patient responses and intervene to support optimal outcomes.
- Develop and implement patient plans of care and observe outcomes in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
- Perform therapeutic and diagnostic interventions, including IVs, incision and wound care, medication administration, catheterization, and specimen collection.
- Maintain patient charts and records confidentially and thoroughly; document status, interventions, responses, and outcomes accurately and promptly.
- Use information technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.
- Promote, advocate for, and collaborate to protect patients’ health, safety, and rights.
- Assess patient and family readiness, needs, and ability to learn; provide education and evaluate its effectiveness.
- Provide rotating call coverage, including evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays, and meet the 30-minute callback-radius requirement.
- Float to the main OR and support other surgical specialties as departmental volume dictates.
Benefits
- $20,000 sign-on bonus for eligible new hires.
- Up to $10,000 relocation assistance for eligible new hires.
- Specialty team differential.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
Associate degree
