Registered Nurse Operating Room

What you can expect

Grand Itasca is a great place for Registered Nurses! We're a non-profit organization with a clear vision of being the leader in transforming rural health care by achieving the highest levels of quality, access, and value. Our strength stems from teamwork and collaboration among a talented and diverse group of professionals. With over 700 employees in hundreds of different roles, Grand Itasca can offer a variety of career opportunities.

We're glad you are thinking about joining us!

Grand Itasca has an excellent opportunity available within our Operating Room. If you are looking for a new chapter, a change of pace, or just to provide a helping hand, Grand Itasca is where you can build a more rewarding career. People support your growth here and there's a team spirit that makes the tough days a whole lot easier. That's Grand Itasca.

About the Position:

Position: Operating Room Registered Nurse

Employment type: Part time. .7-.8 FTE (56-64 hours/pay period)

Work Schedule: Days

Department: Surgical Services

Internal posting until 11/21/24

Let's talk about benefits

• Competitive pay
• Tuition reimbursement and scholarship/grant opportunities
• Health, dental, vision, & life insurance kick in on the first of the month after 30 days of employment
• Generous paid time off (PTO) package to maintain a healthy home-work balance
• STDB (short term disability bank)
• 401K with employer contributions
• Experience Pay Given
• Employee Referral Program

Here's what you'll do when you join us:

The Operating Room RN will be a part of a professional care team that delivers perioperative care to the surgical/endoscopic patient through the nursing process of assessment, planning, intervention, implementation, and evaluation.

• Collects patient health data that are relevant to the operative or invasive procedure, analyzes the data to determine nursing diagnosis and identifies expected outcomes that are unique to the patient.
• Develops and implements an individualized plan of care to attain expected outcomes and evaluates the patient's progress toward attaining outcomes.
• Systematically evaluates the quality and appropriateness of nursing practice. Communicates professionally and effectively with patients, families, co-workers, healthcare team members, and ancillary departments to ensure "Patient Centered" coordination of care.
• Acquires and maintains specialized knowledge and skills in nursing practice and evaluates his or her practice in context with current professional practice standards, rules and regulations. Maintains a working knowledge of the AORN and Joint Commission standards.
• Assigned call for weeknights, holidays, and weekends in an equal rotation with other OR nurses.
• Interacts with and contributes to the professional growth of peers and colleagues.
• Participates in performance improvement activities in the unit and organization. Incorporates research findings into practice.
• Provides leadership in the profession and professional practice setting. Collaborates with and delegates to ancillary/professional staff as appropriate; assures adherence to their scope of practice, considering licensure and/or certification
• Collaborates with the patient and designated support person(s) when practicing professional nursing.

If you have these qualifications, we'd love to chat:

• Current Licensure with the Minnesota Board of Nursing.
• Bachelor's degree in nursing and 2 years of OR RN experience preferred.
• OR RN experience and/or
  • Clinical experience as a Certified Surgical Technologist, and/or
  • Successful completion of a Peri-operative course (AORN or CCI) or equivalent
• BLS and ACLS certifications or ability to attain within six months and maintain certification.
• Demonstrated ability to manage large volumes of multiple patient/family/staff/physicians/priorities within short time frames and organize workload; includes critical thinking, delegation skills, and respectful communication.
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