Operating Room Nurse

About This Role

As an Operating Room Nurse, you will be empowered to influence patient care and help shape decisions that elevate both patient outcomes and the future of nursing. This role is for an Operating Room Nurse at an ambulatory surgery center who demonstrates the company's values by caring like family, contributing expertise in the circulating or scrub role, and ensuring safe and effective nursing care until patient transfer to recovery.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the instrument and equipment set-up for your OR, including utilization of preference cards and ability to anticipate your surgeons' needs
• Coordinate and oversee your room during a case as the circulator
• Facilitate effective and efficient transition between surgical procedures
• Utilize appropriate body mechanics in moving your patients to stretchers and OR tables to prevent injury
• Manage your patients' care and medication, including assistance with anesthesia
• Consistently review your charts for completeness, in accordance with documentation protocols prior to and after the surgical procedure

Requirements

• Graduate from an accredited school of professional nursing
• Minimum 1 year of experience in an operating room setting, preferably in an ambulatory surgery center
• Active RN license as required by state of employment or appropriate compact licensure
• Valid BCLS Certification upon employment
• ACLS as required by facility

Nice to have:

• PALS is preferred, but may be required at some facilities
• CNOR certification preferred

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

About the Company

Central Utah Surgical Center offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of its colleagues. The company's co-founder, Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr., believed that great hospitals always put the patient and their family first, providing care with warmth, compassion, and dignity.