Registered Nurse - Cardiothoracic Operating Room - Duke University Hospital

Duke University Hospital

Duke University Hospital is consistently rated as one of the best in the United States and is known around the world for its outstanding care and groundbreaking research. Duke University Hospital has 1,048 licensed inpatient beds and offers comprehensive diagnostic and therapeutic facilities, including a regional emergency/trauma center; a major surgery suite containing 65 operating rooms; an endo-surgery center; a separate hospital outpatient surgical department with nine operating rooms and an extensive diagnostic and interventional radiology area. For 2021-2022, U.S. News and World Report ranked Duke University Hospital nationally in 11 adult specialties: cancer, cardiology & heart surgery, diabetes & endocrinology, ear, nose & throat, gastroenterology & GI surgery, gynecology, neurology & neurosurgery, ophthalmology, orthopedics, pulmonology & lung surgery, and urology. Duke University Hospital is also ranked first in North Carolina and first in the Raleigh-Durham area.

In addition to its hospitals, Duke Health has an extensive, geographically dispersed network of outpatient facilities that include primary care offices, urgent care centers, multi-specialty clinics and outpatient surgery centers.

Duke Nursing Highlights:

 

• Duke University Health System is designated as a Magnet organization
• Nurses from each hospital are consistently recognized each year as North Carolina's Great 100 Nurses.
• Duke University Health System was awarded the American Board of Nursing Specialties Award for Nursing Certification Advocacy for being strong advocates of specialty nursing certification.
• Duke University Health System has 6000 + registered nurses
• Quality of Life: Living in the Triangle!
• Relocation Assistance!

 

Registered Nurse (Experienced) – Duke University Hospital - Cardiothoracic Surgery Operating Room
 

* Newly Hired RNs (with at least one year Nursing experience) will be eligible to receive a $15,000 commitment bonus that will be paid out over 24 months. 

  

*** Relocation bonus available *** 

  

*** The unit is also eligible for up to $25,000 student loan forgiveness from your first Nursing degree *** 

 

10% OR RN premium added to base pay 

 

Duke University Health System seeks to hire a Clinical Nurse II in our Cardiothoracic Operating Room Unit who will embrace our mission of Transforming Lives Transforming Care.

 

The Cardiothoracic Unit at Magnet-designated Duke University Hospital has excellent opportunities for CTOR RNs to join our interdisciplinary team.
 
With 57 total operating rooms, 18 surgeons and an interdisciplinary team of PAs, RNs, Surgical Technologists, Anesthesia Technicians, Surgical Attendants and Perfusionists, we perform multiple procedures on patients from pediatrics through geriatrics, including:  

• CABGs
• Valves
• VADs
• Aortic aneurysms
• ECMO
• Pediatric congenital cases
• VATS
• Esophagogastrectomy
• Nissen Fundoplication

 
The team is also responsible for covering all pediatric and adult ECMOs throughout the hospital, all pediatric chest wash outs, closures, PDAs, and open chest codes for adults. Among the world’s most comprehensive and respected heart programs, Duke Heart has pioneered many milestones that are now global standards of cardiac care.  Our patients’ high survival rates, the number of heart procedures we perform and our comprehensive support services explain why we’ve been a top 10 program for the last 20 years.
  There’s no such thing as a typical day.  If you want to learn something new every single day and work with a team that does everything in their power to get patients through surgery, come meet our team!

 

 

Preferred Qualifications:  One Year Operating Room Experience

 

Duke North /DMP Surgical Services includes eight specialties offering new and exciting opportunities in both adult and pediatrics using the latest technological advancements including two intraoperative MRI suites and two intraoperative CT suites. Our Eye Center operating rooms provide highly specialized surgery for all ophthalmology including; glaucoma/corneal transplant, cataracts, vitreo-retinal, Neuro-ophthalmology and pediatrics.

 

•        General Surgery

•        Cardiothoracic

•        Orthopedics

•        Plastics

•        Neurosurgery

•        Otolaryngology Head & Neck (ENT)

•        Gynecology

•        Urology

•        Robotics

•        Transplant

 

Job Summary:

 

As a Clinical Nurse with Duke University Health System, you will make providing service your