Registered Nurse Senior Operating Room

About the role

The Operating Room Nurse Senior provides highly skilled patient care in a surgical setting in accordance with applicable scope and standards of practice with the policies, values, and mission of the organization. They monitor and manage the patient and operative environment during surgery through expert knowledge of managing complications, assisting in advanced surgical techniques, and critical thinking to anticipate the needs of the surgical team and adjust care strategies accordingly.

Responsibilities

• Consults and coordinates with health care team members to assess, plan, implement and evaluate intraoperative patient care plans.
• Navigates and documents in the EMR to support patient care and audits unit documentation to improve accuracy and minimize documentation errors.
• Works within scope of practice and delegates according to Nurse Practice Act.
• Manages the allocation of resources to meet patient needs through appropriate assignments based on patient acuity, staff competency, unit needs and patient safety.
• Communicates with the Associate Clinical Manager(s) in mediating problems involving patient/family, hospital personnel and the public.
• Led the provision and monitoring of staff competencies.
• Collaborates with the CNE/CNS to meet the educational need of the unit(s) to maintain continuity of care related to specific patient-care requirements.
• Expert knowledge of policy and procedure for all clinical skills to effectively provide a variety of teaching methodologies to ensure the orientee learns and can competently demonstrate those skills in accordance with policies and procedures.
• Provides direct guidance and oversight for the orientee in all patient care and clinical activities and ensures that those behaviors adhere to documentation standards, standards of excellence, and all other policy and procedure.
• Serves as the communication liaison to patients, families and members of the operating team.
• Skilled ability to function as charge nurse when needed.
• Prepares operating room for patient and procedure.
• Delivers patient and family centered care incorporating the nursing process while providing developmentally appropriate, culturally sensitive, evidence-based care.
• Actively anticipates changes in patient outcomes/ unit needs in the provision of care.
• Communicate and advocate patient values, preferences and expressed needs as part of implementation of care plan, evaluation of care and assessment of patient/family learning needs to the interdisciplinary team.
• Initiates and anticipates individualized care and education for patients/families across the continuum using an interdisciplinary approach.
• Utilizes outcome data at the patient level to make care decisions.
• Leads quality improvement activities through skillful use quality measures to understand individual and unit performance.
• Communicates observations or concerns related to unsafe situations that pose a risk to patients, families or the health care team.
• Recognizes and applies information and technology of patient and unit outcomes to facilitate communication, clinical decision making, error prevention, and care coordination.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
• Experience: Four (4) years perioperative nursing experience
• Certification(s): BLS/CPR, PALS, and ACLS from the American Heart Association with at least 6 months left before expiration is required upon hire. CNOR within 6 months of hire.
• Licensure(s): Current State licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN)

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years of perioperative nursing experience.
• BLS/CPR, PALS, and ACLS from the American Heart Association with at least 6 months left before expiration is required upon hire.
• CNOR within 6 months of hire.
• Current State licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN).

Skills

• Expert knowledge of policy and procedure for all clinical skills.
• Ability to navigate and document in the EMR.
• Ability to delegate according to Nurse Practice Act.
• Ability to manage the allocation of resources to meet patient needs.
• Ability to communicate with the Associate Clinical Manager(s).
• Ability to lead the provision and monitoring of staff competencies.
• Ability to collaborate with the CNE/CNS.
• Ability to provide direct guidance and oversight for the orientee.
• Ability to serve as the communication liaison to patients, families and members of the operating team.
• Skilled ability to function as charge nurse when needed.
• Ability to prepare operating room for patient and procedure.
• Ability to deliver patient and family centered care.
• Ability to anticipate changes in patient outcomes/ unit needs in the provision of care.
• Ability to communicate and advocate patient values, preferences and expressed needs.
• Ability to initiate and anticipate individualized care and education for patients/families.
• Ability to utilize outcome data at the patient level to make care decisions.
• Ability to lead quality improvement activities.
• Ability to communicate observations or concerns related to unsafe situations.
• Ability to recognize and apply information and technology of patient and unit outcomes.

Benefits

Here, you matter. As a Children’s Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career. As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April. Children’s Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.

Pay

Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience.

Schedule

This position is eligible for dayshift Monday through Friday, occasional off shifts per staffing needs, on call and holiday requirements. This position is eligible for relocation assistance, if relocating from 100 miles or greater.