Clinical Nurse Operating Room Outpatient Surgery Center

Additional location: Center for Advanced Medicine-South County Outpatient Surgery Center

Schedule

• 4-10 hour shifts, Monday-Friday
• 3 operating rooms and one GI suite

About the Role

Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University Medical Center is the largest hospital in Missouri and is ranked as one of the nation's top hospitals by U.S. News & World Report. The hospital's staff includes full-time academic faculty and community physicians of Washington University School of Medicine, supported by residents, interns, fellows, and other medical professionals.

The Center for Advanced Medicine - South County is a new outpatient facility, jointly owned by Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital, located near the Siteman Cancer Center at I-55 and Butler Hill Rd. This facility includes outpatient surgery, imaging, lab, therapy, and Washington University physician subspecialty offices such as Orthopaedic Surgery, Internal Medicine, Ophthalmology, Surgery, and OB/GYN.

The surgery suite includes two operating rooms and two minor procedure rooms. Imaging services will include plain film, CT, MRI, and screening mammography.

BJC has designated this as a safety-sensitive position. The ability to work in a constant state of alertness and in a safe manner is an essential function of this job.

Responsibilities

• Promotes patient and family-centered care in a healing environment.
• Educates patients and their families on managing illness or injury, including post-treatment home care needs and medication administration.
• Participates in activities that promote patient safety, quality, and regulatory compliance.
• Participates in professional development.
• Develops, implements, and documents individual plans of care with defined goals in collaboration with the interprofessional team, patient, family, or caregiver, following established guidelines and standards of nursing care.
• Proactively plans and ensures communication of the plan of care across the continuum of care.
• Uses critical nursing skills to assess and evaluate physical, psychosocial, and emotional needs according to standards of care.
• Assesses patient preferences and barriers to involvement in care, including their values, emotional, spiritual, cultural, and population-specific needs.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

• Education: Nursing Diploma/Associate's in Nursing
• Experience: No prior experience required
• Supervisor Experience: Not required
• Licenses & Certifications: RN

Preferred Qualifications

• OR experience preferred
• Education: Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
• Bonus eligible

Benefits

The BJC Registered Nurse Career Ladder empowers nurses to work at the top of their license and advance their career progression, offering professional development, leadership, collaboration, education, and service excellence opportunities. Advancement to higher ladder levels results in a percentage increase of current pay.

Comprehensive benefits include:

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