Registered Nurse - OR Residency Program

This paid full time internship is open to current Registered Nurses or recent graduates who have an interest in perioperative nursing.  The program offers a unique opportunity for new nurses and experience nurses who want to work in the Operating Room.  Learn how to be an O.R. Circulator and develop O.R. skills while on the job through an internship program. This program offers the AORN Periop 101 course with contact hours and CNOR certification reimbursement.  

The O.R. interns will be trained via an on-line didactic course and through hands-on skills that are essential to perioperative nursing. The course allows the nurse intern to learn in the clinical setting with coaching from the Education team and qualified staff.  Upon completion, the nurse will then move to an available perioperative nurse position in one of the OR specialties offered at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital.

Delivers high quality patient-focused health care services that meet the assessed and individually planned needs and desires of all patients on the assigned nursing unit.

JOB SPECIFICATIONS

Minimum Education
Diploma, Associate's or Bachelor's Degree from an accredited RN program

Required Certification/Registration
Current unrestricted Louisiana RN license and BLS certification

Our Lady of the Lake is uniquely capable of caring for a full range of illness or injury, including those that are extremely complex, for both pediatric and adult patients. Our family of services includes:

• An 988-bed hospital and the area’s only Level II Trauma Center
• A freestanding Children's Hospital
• A 545-provider care network covering more than 40 specialties
• Two free-standing emergency rooms—Our Lady of the Lake Livingston and Our Lady of the Lake North
• A network of nearly 15 urgent care clinics
• Outpatient imaging and surgery centers
• Assumption Community Hospital
• Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University
• Our Lady of the Lake Ascension, a 78-bed, community hospital providing emergency, inpatient, outpatient, and surgical services to Ascension Parish and surrounding area

We serve 38,000 inpatients and 820,000 outpatients annually and are committed to building a healthy community through excellence in patient care and education. A part of the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System, Our Lady of the Lake is consistently awarded for compassionate care, clinical expertise, leading edge technology and innovation.