RN OR

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As an Operating Room Registered Nurse (OR RN) at CHI St. Joseph's 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. You'll 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 surgeon's 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).

Job Requirements

Required

• 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

Where You'll Work

CHI St. Joseph's 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.