RN- CVOR

Position Responsibilities

• Provides age-specific, culturally competent, and ethical care within legal standards of practice.
• Affirms patient’s immediate pre-operative, intraoperative, and immediate post-operative status at intervals in compliance with organizational policies/procedures.
• Develops an individualized perioperative patient plan of care.
• Protects the patient from injury caused by extraneous objects and chemical, electrical, laser, mechanical, and thermal sources.
• Performs accounting procedures to protect the patient from unintended retained surgical items in compliance with organizational policies/procedures.
• Performs interventions necessary to ensure that the patient’s procedure is performed on the correct site, side, and level.
• Manages patient specimens according to organizational policy and procedures.
• Communicates the patient status to relevant parties throughout the continuum of care.
• Provides/administers medications safely and correctly in compliance with organizational policies/procedures.
• Performs interventions to maintain the patient’s wound and tissue perfusion at or above baseline level.
• Performs interventions to ensure the patient is at or returned to normothermia at the conclusion of the immediate postoperative period.
• Performs interventions to protect the patient from surgical site infection.
• Evaluates patient progress toward attaining outcomes.

Position Requirements

• Minimum of one year experience
• ASN required, BSN within 3 years from the date of hire
• DE RN License
• PA RN License within 6 months from the date of hire
• NJ RN licensure within 1 year from the date of hire
• PA Clearances: FBI Fingerprint Report, PA Criminal Background Record, & PA Child Abuse Clearance
• American Heart Association BLS required upon hire
• American Heart Association PALS within 6 months from the date of hire
• American Heart Association ACLS within 1 year from the date of hire
• CNOR; CPN preferred

About Us

Nemours Children's Health is an internationally recognized pediatric health system serving more than 1.7 million patient encounters each year. We deliver care across six states through two freestanding children’s hospitals — Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida — along with a network of more than 80 primary, urgent, and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospital partnerships. Backed by the Nemours Foundation and Alfred I. duPont Trust, our $1.7B nonprofit system is dedicated to improving children's health through clinical care, research, education, advocacy, and prevention. Our Whole Child Health approach focuses equally on prevention and treatment, partnering with communities to help every child thrive. Inclusion and belonging guide our strategy and growth. We are committed to culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and fostering an environment where every associate, patient, and family feels supported and valued.