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Overview
Fairview Health Services is hiring a Registered Nurse (RN) to join our Operating Room (OR) team at our University of Minnesota Medical Center East Bank location in Minneapolis, MN.
We are seeking a hardworking and motivated Registered Nurse (RN) to join our Operating Room (OR) team, which includes surgical technologists, nursing assistants, schedulers, instrument technicians, and MDs. This position will serve an all-adult patient population.
Schedule: This position will be working 80 hours every 2 weeks on the rotating day/evening/night shifts. The schedule includes: 8 hour shifts, weekday call as needed, currently 1 weekend shift (usually call) per schedule period.
Benefits: This position is eligible for full benefits. We offer a generous benefits package including medical, dental, paid time off, retirement options, tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment program, and more!
About the OR at UMMC East Bank
University of Minnesota Medical Center is the flagship location for University of Minnesota Health
Offers the widest range of hospital and clinical services provided through University of Minnesota Health, ranging from primary care and emergency care to deliver care to patients with the most complex conditions
Areas of specialization include: solid organ transplant, blood and marrow transplantation, heart disease, and cancer
Surgeries in this unit are team based among these specialties: neurology, thoracic, cardiovascular, vascular, complex ENT, robotics, gynecology, oncology, urology
The OR at UMMC East Bank completes on average 45-50 scheduled cases per day
About Fairview:
Fairview Health Services is an industry-leading, award-winning nonprofit that offers an entire network of healthcare services. Fairview is one part of M Health Fairview, a partnership between the University of Minnesota, M Physicians and Fairview Health Services. Together, we combine the University’s deep history of clinical innovation and training with Fairview’s extensive roots in community medicine. Our care portfolio includes community hospitals, academic hospitals, primary and specialty care clinics, senior facilities, facilitated living centers, rehabilitation centers, home health care services, counseling, pharmacies and benefit management services
Apply today to join our 34,000+ employees and 5,000+ system providers working to build lasting relationships with the people we serve: our patients, our communities, and each other!
Responsibilities Job Description
As an Operating Room RN, you will be responsible for:
The Operating Room RN demonstrates the ability to establish an environment of safety for the surgical patient. They should be able to assess, diagnose, implement, and evaluate treatments and procedures that contribute to the physiological stability of the surgical patient.They may also serve as a circulator or scrub during operative procedures.
Implements protective measures prior to operative or invasive procedure, including measures to prevent skin or tissue injury due to thermal, mechanical, electrical and chemical sources.
Confirms identity before the operative or invasive procedure and verifies operative procedure, surgical site and laterality.
Applies safety devices, performs required counts, manages specimen handling and disposition.
Demonstrates knowledge about the psychologic, sociologic, and spiritual responses of patients and their families to the operative or other invasive procedure.
Applies principles of aseptic technique while establishing and maintaining sterile fields.
Performs skin preparations, monitors for wound contamination, and classifies the surgical wound.
Ensures perioperative environmental sanitation.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
MN RN licensure required
BLS
Minimum of 1 year OR RN experience, or completion of an approved Periop 101 program, or approved student experience or 2 years’ experience as a Surgical Technologist
Preferred Qualifications:
1 year Scrub Experience
Bachelor's degree in Nursing
EEO Statement
EEO/AA Employer/Vet/Disabled: All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to any lawfully protected status