RN - Operating Room

Shift:

Position Highlights

Operating room, or OR: This 30-room site provides care for 60 to 80 cases per day. Nebraska Medicine is an American College of Surgeons Level One trauma center, so patient acuity is high. Teams perform heart, lung, liver, kidney, small bowel and pancreas transplants and other groundbreaking procedures. Orientation is six to nine months long, and nurses scrub and circulate on all service lines.

Shift: Days (9 am - 9 pm) with on call responsibilities

Why Nebraska Medicine:

Our shared values reflect who we are and why we're here and include, Innovation, Teamwork, Excellence, Accountability, Courage and Healing.

• Competitive Benefits including retirement match contribution, PTO accrual, tuition reimbursement

• Lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for all individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care

• Forbes Magazine recognizes us in their list of American's top employers and the best employer in Nebraska

Provide, prescribe, delegate, and coordinate nursing care with other health care providers to meet holistic care needs of a designated group of patients. Environment of care may be long term, emergent, critical, acute, interventional, or procedural driven.

Required Qualifications:
*Associate's degree in nursing (ADN) or Nursing Diploma required.

* Effective communication skills required.
* Ability to demonstrate initiative, teamwork and flexibility required.
* Currently licensed as a Registered Nurse in the state of Nebraska or current compact state license required.
* Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required, must be from an American Heart Association (AHA) endorsed program (effective for new hires starting January 1, 2023 or later).
* Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification department dependent required.

* For Emergency Department, Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification within 6 months of hire or transfer date required.

* Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification within 6 months of hire or transfer date department dependent required.

* Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC) OR Advanced Trauma Care for Nurses (ATCN) within one year or hire or transfer date department dependent required.

Preferred Qualifications:
* Direct patient care experience preferred.
* Based on position, prior experience in one or more of the following areas including cardiology, cardiac drip management, critical care, emergency department, medical-surgical, obstetrics, cardiovascular rehabilitation, telemetry, oncology, neonatal intensive care, pediatric acute care, solid organ transplant, cath lab, EP lab, quality assurance related to health care, perioperative and special procedures in applicable nursing specialty area preferred.
*Bachelor's degree in nursing (BSN) or Master's of Science in Nursing (MSN) degree preferred.
* Based on position, one or more of the following courses including STABLE, smoking cessation counseling, basic critical care, or other specialty training courses preferred.
* Experience with Microsoft Office applications including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel preferred.
* Proficient with use of email applications preferred.
* Proficient with use of departmental equipment and systems such as patient care equipment, telecommunication systems, information systems, pneumatic tube system, general patient care supplies, and transport equipment preferred.