Clinical Nurse Operating Room

About This Role

This night-shift post on the cardiac ward pairs patient care with mentoring new nurses. The Clinical Nurse Operating Room provides direct patient care activities including assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation within the guidelines of the standards of nursing care. The role promotes professional development, leadership, collaboration, education, and service excellence.

Responsibilities

• Promote patient and family-centered care in a healing environment
• Educate patients and their families on how to manage their illness or injury, including post-treatment home care needs and medication administration
• Participate in activities that promote patient safety, quality, and regulatory compliance
• Participate in professional development
• Develop, implement, and document individual plans of care with defined goals in collaboration with other members of the interprofessional team and patient, family, or caregiver in accordance with the established guidelines and standards of nursing care
• Proactively plan and ensure communication of the plan of care across the continuum of care
• Use critical nursing skills to assess and evaluate physical, psychosocial, and emotional needs according to standards of care
• Assess patient preferences and barriers to involvement in care, including their values, emotional, spiritual, cultural, and population-specific needs

Requirements

• Nursing Diploma/Associate's in Nursing
• No experience required
• RN license

Nice to have:

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
• OR experience

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date
• Disability insurance paid for by BJC
• Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution
• 401(k) plan with BJC match
• Tuition Assistance available on first day
• BJC Institute for Learning and Development
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays, and personal time
• Adoption assistance
• Bonus eligible

Important Details

• Schedule: 3-12 hour shifts (9:00 AM-9:30 PM)
• No weekday call requirement
• One weekend call per 6-week schedule (rotate days/nights)
• Team: 23 ORs, 3 robots

About the Company

Missouri Baptist Medical Center is an acute care hospital in St. Louis County, offering a full continuum of medical and surgical services, including heart care, cancer, women and infants, breast health, gastrointestinal, orthopedic, stroke, therapy, wound, and pain management services. The hospital has a 24-hour adult emergency department and cares for pediatric patients at a separate emergency department in collaboration with St. Louis Children’s Hospital. It is the first and only hospital in St. Louis County to be named a Magnet® hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). U.S. News & World Report ranked the hospital #2 in the St. Louis metro area. Its Surgical Services department consists of 22 ORs, which include three heart team rooms and the da Vinci robotic surgical system.