Registered Nurse - Cardiovascular Operating Room (CVOR)

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Schedule Options: Full‑time; day shifts with on‑call requirement.

Benefits

• Competitive, affordable health insurance options and wellness plans
• Paid daily
• Up to $5,250 in tuition coverage per year
• Paid maternity & paternity coverage
• Adoption assistance
• Retirement benefits with employer matching
• Long‑ and short‑term disability
• Employee assistance program (EAP)

Job Summary

Uses the nursing process in care delivery and provides nursing leadership for other patient‑care personnel. Circulates independently on complex cases, including cardiovascular and thoracic cases.

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide perioperative care through comprehensive pre‑operative assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of individualized nursing interventions.
• Prioritize multiple complex patient and physician needs; delegate and coordinate care among the surgical team to maximize outcomes.
• Assign patient‑care duties to supervised personnel, considering staff competencies, patient population, equipment, condition, infection control, safety, and supervision availability.
• Communicate with patients, staff, and physicians to anticipate needs and address complaints related to patient‑care processes.
• Maintain and enhance professional clinical skills; stay current with advances in cardiovascular, thoracic, and multiple surgical specialty nursing techniques and technologies.
• Serve as a consultant to personnel in areas of nursing expertise; teach and mentor less‑experienced nurses and technicians.
• Demonstrate advanced clinical judgment in complex cardiovascular, thoracic, and multiple surgical specialty areas.
• Initiate process‑improvement actions within the department.
• Apply evidence‑based practice and scientific knowledge to nursing care, ensuring age‑specific and clinical‑specific interventions.
• Maintain constant alertness and safety; perform other duties as assigned.

Education

Graduate of an accredited school of nursing or education equivalency for licensing.

Experience

One year of advanced surgical experience.

Physical Requirements

• Constant use of speech for oral communication.
• Constant standing and walking.
• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0‑25 lb.
• Frequent sitting, reaching, and keyboard use/data entry.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for near (≤20 in) and far (≈20 ft) distances; color discrimination.
• Frequent use of smell to detect/recognize odors.
• Frequent use of hearing for oral communication, body sounds, alarms, and equipment alerts.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25‑50 lb.
• Occasional patient moving, bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting, gripping, and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Occasional driving.
• Rare crawling and running.

Required Professional Licenses and Certifications

• Illinois: Basic Life Support Health Care Provider (BLS HCP) – American Heart Association and Registered Professional Nurse (RN) – Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation.
• Missouri: BLS HCP – American Heart Association and RN – Missouri Division of Professional Registration or RN issued by a Compact State.
• Oklahoma: BLS HCP – American Heart Association and RN issued by a Compact State or RN – Oklahoma Board of Nursing.
• Wisconsin: BLS HCP – American Heart Association and RN issued by a Compact State or RN – Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services.

Schedule

Day shift, 40 scheduled weekly hours.