Registered Nurse - Surgery, Day Shift

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MO-SSM Health Outpatient Surgery Center - Kisker Road

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Highlights:

• Department: ​Surgery

• Sign On Bonus: $15,000

• Schedule: ​Full Time, Day Shift

• Location: 1475 Kisker Rd #200, St Charles, MO 63304

Required experience: 1 year of operating experience and both

Scrubbing and circulating experience.

• Additional Job details:

  Our facility primarily handles sports medicine and orthopedic cases, constituting 90% of our operations. Additional cases include:

• Breast Cases: Surgical procedures related to breast health and reconstruction.

• Plastic/Cosmetic Cases: Aesthetic and reconstructive plastic surgeries.

• Podiatry: Surgeries involving the foot and ankle.

• Spinal Implant Cases: Procedures that involve the placement of spinal implants.

**Sign-on bonuses are for externally qualified candidates. Internal candidates, please check with your recruiter to see what options are available for you.

Job Summary:

Delivers professional nursing care in the operative setting to patients undergoing surgical or other invasive procedures.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Performs scrub functions including the selection and handling of instruments and supplies used during procedure.
• Performs circulating functions including monitoring, recording and communicating patient condition and managing overall nursing care of patient before, during and after procedure.
• Directly assists operating physician with surgical tasks including hemostasis, suturing and wound exposure as well as patient positioning.
• Prepares operating rooms and surgical instruments and equipment for use.
• Applies the existing body of evidence-based practice and scientific knowledge in health care to nursing practice, ensuring that nursing care is delivered based on patient’s age-specific needs and clinical needs as described in the department's Scope of Service.
• As an SSM Health nurse, I will demonstrate the professional nursing standards defined in the professional practice model. Uses the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses to guide his/her response to the current and evolving health and nursing needs of our patients and our patient populations.
• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Graduate of accredited school of nursing or education equivalency for licensing

EXPERIENCE

• No experience required

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Constant use of speech to share information through oral communication.
• Constant standing and walking.
• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, reaching and keyboard use/data entry.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of smell to detect/recognize odors.
• Frequent use of hearing to receive oral communication, distinguish body sounds and/or hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Occasional lifting/moving of patients.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting, gripping and repetitive foot/leg and h