Surgical Services Clinical Nurse - Prentice OR, Full-time, Rotating

Note: Please apply to this posting if you have at least one year of professional experience as a nurse in the Operating Room.

Northwestern Memorial Hospital offers the culture technology training and support that nurses need to deliver excellent care in a stateoftheart facility. Nurses in our Operating Room are expected to both circulate and scrub in a variety of surgical cases. Our various surgical service lines perform more than 33000 cases annually and include top talent. Our multidisciplinary teams work together to value each individuals contribution to optimize positive patient outcomes.

Prentice OR service lines include:

• Gynecology
• Plastics
• Robotic surgery
• Breast

Northwestern Memorial Hospital has 60 operating rooms.

• Prentice Womens Hospital Focusing on womens health (gyne breast plastics and robotics).

Northwestern Memorial Hospital is certified as a Level I trauma center and stroke center and offers highquality specialty emergency and trauma services.

OR Scheduling and Call Requirements:

• Team members will rotate onto the weekend and be required to take call on holidays.
• You will be required to take call with a 30minute response time. Call requirement of 60100 hours in a sixweek period. 

Professional Growth:

• Tuition reimbursement and reimbursable professional development available.
• CNOR Certification is an expectation after two years of OR experience. Certification reimbursed by NMH through professional development funds.
• Professional development reimbursement: $1000 Fulltime/$500 Parttime per fiscal year.
• Tuition reimbursement: $10000 Fulltime/$5700 Parttime per fiscal year.
• Student loan repayment: Fulltime employees eligible for $100 per month up to $10000 lifetime maximum/Parttime employees eligible for $50 per month up to $5000 lifetime maximum.

The Surgical Services Clinical Nurse reflects the mission vision and values of NM adheres to the organizations Code of Ethics and Corporate Compliance Program and complies with all relevant policies procedures guidelines and all other regulatory and accreditation standards.

The role of the professional clinical nurse is unique and essential to the care of the patient. The nurse demonstrates that unique and essential function through the framework for nursing practice.

Advocate:

• Practices in accordance with the patientcentered care model.
• Develops an individualized agespecific culturally sensitive nursing plan of care for the patient that is based on the nursing process.
• Incorporates the role of patient advocate into the plan of care.
• Uses a team approach to develop and achieve daily patientcentered individualized care goals.
• Acknowledges and values the contributions of the patients significant others as an integral part of the plan of care.
• Identifies potential conflict situations and facilitates resolution using established communication channels.
• Promotes and strives to protect the health safety and rights of the patient.
• Protects patients by maintaining a safe environment.
• Participate in researchrelated activities which includes evidencebased practice and quality improvement initiatives.
• Practices safe surgery specific postoperative care to include assessment potential complications and discharge teaching.
• Identifies potential preanesthetic surgical risks factors.

Clinical Expert:

• Advances clinical expertise as demonstrated through pursuit of informal and formal continuing education opportunities and obtaining specialty certification when eligible.
• Continuously enhances skills and abilities to ensure the highest quality patient care.
• Shares knowledge and expertise through educating team members patients and students.
• Demonstrates critical thinking by integrating theoretical knowledge and expertise to pose relevant clinical questions when evidence and practice differ.
• Identifies priorities sets realistic and measurable goals prescribes and implements nursing interventions in a safe and timely manner.
• Develops and implements individualized education plans for patients and families using suitable instructional materials and methods
• Evaluates and documents the patients responses to nursing interventions in the health record and properly individualizes the plan of care based on the evaluation of findings.
• Identifies situations that require further intervention and escalates appropriately; consults appropriate experts and resources when needed.
• Participates in the formation implementation and evaluation of team goals.
• Appropriately delegates and supervises. interventions to implement the plan of care.
• Conveys complete timely and accurate information at hand off at the bedside or any hand off.
• Adheres to ethical standards of practice.
• Possess the knowledge to intervene in the event of a complication or undesired outcome.

Community Volunteer:

• Participates in one or more volunteer initiatives annually Northwestern Memorial organized or on his/her own.

Compassionate:

• Consistently demonstrates interpersonal connections with patients and families from introduction through discharge.
• Proactively responds to patient concerns such as speaking to patients about possible/expected delays in plan of care.
• Treats patients families visitors and staff in a caring manner with respect and dignity.
• Facilities recovery and where appropriate helps ensure a peaceful death for patients.

Professionally Engaged:

• Is a member of a professional organization or participates on an Northwestern Memorial committee or taskforce at the hospitalwide departmental or unit level.
• Demonstrates accountability and collaborative practice with coworkers other disciplines and departments.
• Assumes responsibility for continued professional growth and education reflecting knowledge and understanding of current nursing practice.
• Serves as a community mentor for team members.
• Serves as a preceptor for new team members.
• Participates in the peer feedback process by conducting a constructive assessment and evaluation of peer performance.
• Works collaboratively with all hospital services to accomplish daily work and maintain an environment of excellence.
• Participates in the development of policies procedures and systems to support safe and effective care and advance nursing practice at NMH through the Shared Leadership Process.
• Assumes personal responsibility for meeting internal (i.e. Best People profile ELMs CPR and health requirements) and external regulatory and accreditation requirements.
• Identifies opportunities for innovation and quality improvement; participates in innovation projects and the quality improvement process including unit based quality committees.
• Demonstrates accountability to Northwestern Memorial strategic operational and fiscal goals.
• Exemplifies a professional image in appearance and communications.
• Maintains and advances the professional image of nursing and the practice of professional nursing through an ongoing analysis of resources: professional organizations literature electronic resources etc.

AA/EOE.

Qualifications :

Required:

• Graduate of an NLN accredited school/college of nursing.
• Baccalaureate degree in Nursing or higher.
• Current State of Illinois Registered Professional Nurse license.
• CardioPulmonary Resuscitation recognition (healthcare provider level) through the American Heart Association.
• Analytic ability (conceptual and quantitative).
• Oral listening and written communication skills.
• Strong human relation skills to interact effectively and collaborate with others in difficult situations.
• Use of a keyboard to enter or retrieve data.

Preferred:

• Experience in specific clinical area.
• Nursing specialty certification if eligible.

Additional Information :

Northwestern Medicine is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of age sex race color religion national origin gender identity veteran status disability sexual orientation or any other protected status.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits that provide employees with tools and resources to improve their physical emotional and financial wellbeing while providing protection for unexpected life events. Please visit our Benefits section to learn more.