RN Or

As an Operating Room Registered Nurse (OR RN) at CHI St. Josephs Health you will be a pivotal healthcare professional delivering compassionate high-quality perioperative care that truly impacts our surgical patients well-being and recovery.

Every day you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized comprehensive care making critical assessments performing skilled procedures and meticulously implementing sterile patient-centered care plans. Youll collaborate seamlessly within our interdisciplinary surgical team contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

To thrive in this vital role you will possess keen assessment skills acute critical thinking and a patient-first mindset driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement within a faith-based healthcare system.

Responsibilities:

• Provide comprehensive pre-operative intra-operative and immediate post-operative assessment planning and evaluation of surgical patients.
• Prepare the operating room ensuring equipment instruments and sterile field meet AORN standards and patient-specific needs.
• Circulate and/or scrub for diverse surgical procedures actively anticipating surgeons needs and maintaining patient safety.
• Accurately document all aspects of patient care surgical events and interventions in the electronic health record.
• Collaborate effectively with surgeons anesthesiologists surgical technologists and other care team members to optimize patient outcomes.
• Implement nursing interventions delegated ordered or prescribed by a licensed healthcare provider within the perioperative setting.
• Maintain strict adherence to aseptic technique infection control protocols and patient safety initiatives (e.g. time-out).

• Graduate of accredited professional nursing education program.
• Registered Nurse Licensed by the State of Minnesota.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) issued by the American Heart Association (AHA).
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS).
• Obtain Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) within one (1) year of start date.

Preferred

• OR/PACU experience.

CHI St. Josephs Health of Park Rapids part of CommonSpirit Health is an award-winning 25-bed critical access hospital located in the heart of lake country. Fully accredited by The Joint Commission we offer a full range of services including 24/7/365 Emergency Department and Level IV Trauma Center hospitalist program testing surgery orthopedics rehabilitation and more so that you can experience better health.