Operating Room RN – Cardiac Surgery (Full-Time Days | 3x12s)

About the Role

Seeking an experienced Operating Room Registered Nurse specializing in cardiac surgery. This position supports a high-acuity OR environment, working closely with surgeons and anesthesia teams on complex procedures.

• Cardiac-focused OR: Transplants, CABG, valve replacements, TAVR, AAA repairs, endovascular procedures
• 30+ OR suites, including hybrid rooms for advanced surgical care
• Collaborative, fast-paced team environment
• Opportunities for training, continuing education, and career growth

About Us

Baylor Scott & White Health is Texas’ largest not-for-profit healthcare system, empowering individuals to live well. Our core values are:

• We serve faithfully by doing what's right with a joyful heart.
• We never settle by constantly striving for better.
• We are in it together by supporting one another and those we serve.
• We make an impact by taking initiative and delivering exceptional experience.

Responsibilities

• Clinical Judgment: Using clinical reasoning, conducts accurate assessments according to standards. Identifies and prioritizes patient and family needs. Develops, implements, and evaluates the nursing care plan. Modifies plan to meet outcomes.
• Clinical Inquiry: Evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice, including nursing indicators. Helps evidence-based practice changes through research and learning. Participates in quality improvement initiatives.
• Caring Practices: Creates an attentive, helpful, safe, and therapeutic environment for patients, families, and staff. Develops therapeutic relationships with patients and families and maintains appropriate boundaries. Manages fiery and physical pain to promote relief and healing and prevent unnecessary suffering.
• Response to Diversity: Recognizes and appreciates a patient's and family's unique differences. Incorporates culture, beliefs, gender, race, ethnicity, lifestyle, status, age, and values into a care plan.
• Advocacy and Moral Agency: Preserves and protects the confidentiality, autonomy, dignity, and rights of patients and families. Represents their concerns. Creates an individualized plan that reflects patient and family values and goals. Identifies and helps resolve ethical and clinical concerns.
• Facilitation of Learning: Facilitates learning for patients, families, nursing staff, health care team, and community. Integrates education throughout care to help them make informed health care recommendations. Includes health promotion and disease prevention. Assesses and documents learning needs and outcomes.
• Partnership: Works with colleagues and community to create and implement a care plan. Open and attentive to all team members' unique contributions. Delegates tasks to appropriate staff and ensures timely follow-up.
• Systems Thinking: Uses strategies and resources for problem-solving for patients, family, and staff. Recognizes limited resources and considers safety, effectiveness, and efficiency in planning and delivering patient care.

Requirements

• Graduate of an Accredited RN Program (Major: Nursing)
• 2 years of OR Nurse experience
• 1 year of Cardiac OR specialty experience
• Registered Nurse (RN) license
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification or obtained within 30 days of hire/transfer

Skills

• Knowledge and expertise of nursing and patient care standards and procedures
• Understanding of laws, rules, and regulations, as well as standards and guidelines of certifying and accrediting bodies
• Knowledge of medical terminology, health promotion, risk reduction, and disease prevention and management
• Knowledge of medications, common dosages, effects, and possible adverse reactions
• Understanding of medical and professional nursing ethics and patient privacy rights
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Social skills to interact with a wide range of constituencies
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to observe changes in patients' medical conditions and communicate them to nursing staff and physicians/providers
• Provide age-specific, quality, patient-centered care through the nursing process and standards
• General computer skills, including Microsoft Office, information security, scheduling and payroll systems, electronic medical documentation, and email

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to help you live well. Eligibility begins immediately and may include:

• Health and welfare benefits
• 401(k) savings plan with dollar-for-dollar match up to 5%
• Tuition reimbursement
• PTO accrual beginning Day 1

Note: Benefits may vary based upon position type and/or level.

Schedule

Full-Time | 3x12s | 6:30 AM – 7:00 PM