Responsibilities/Job Description:
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About the Position
- POSITION: Registered Nurse - Operating Room
- EMPLOYMENT TYPE: Casual (as-needed basis)
- WORK SCHEDULE: D
- DEPARTMENT: Surgical Services
- Internal Posting Through: 4/21/2026
Overview:
A clinically competent, registered, professional nurse who has demonstrated expertise in the perioperative field. Effectively delivers perioperative care to the surgical/endoscopic patient through the nursing process of assessment, planning, intervention, implementation, and evaluation.
Job Duties:
- Collects patient health data that are relevant to the operative or invasive procedure, analyzes the data to determine nursing diagnosis and identifies expected outcomes that are unique to the patient.
- Develops and implements an individualized plan of care to attain expected outcomes and evaluates the patient’s progress toward attaining outcomes.
- Systematically evaluates the quality and appropriateness of nursing practice. Communicates professionally and effectively with patients, families, co-workers, healthcare team members, and ancillary departments to ensure “Patient Centered” coordination of care.
- Acquires and maintains specialized knowledge and skills in nursing practice and evaluates his or her practice in context with current professional practice standards, rules and regulations. Maintains a working knowledge of the AORN and Joint Commission standards.
- Assigned call for weeknights, holidays, and weekends in an equal rotation with other OR nurses.
- Interacts with and contributes to the professional growth of peers and colleagues. Participates in performance improvement activities in the unit and organization. Incorporates research findings into practice.
- Provides leadership in the profession and professional practice setting. Collaborates with and delegates to ancillary/professional staff as appropriate; assures adherence to their scope of practice, considering licensure and/or certification.
- Collaborates with the patient and designated support person(s) when practicing professional nursing.
- Care and management of endoscopy and surgical patients. Considers factors related to safety, effectiveness, efficiency, and the environment as well as cost in planning, delivering, and evaluating patient care.
- Assigned service line responsibilities by the Director of Surgical Services.
- Uses ethical principles to determine decisions and actions.
- Participates in staff meeting, committees, and special projects; actively contributes to Surgical Services quality and development.
Qualifications:
- Current Licensure with the Minnesota Board of Nursing.
- Bachelor’s degree in Nursing and 2 years of OR RN experience preferred.
- OR RN experience and/or
- Clinical experience as a Certified Surgical Technologist, and/or
- Successful completion of a Peri-operative course (AORN or CCI) or equivalent
- BLS and ACLS certifications or ability to attain within six months and maintain certification.
- Demonstrated ability to manage large volumes of multiple patient/family/staff/physicians/priorities within short time frames and organize workload; includes critical thinking, delegation skills, and respectful communication.
- Experience in assessing the individual needs of adult, geriatric, adolescent, and pediatric patients and their families undergoing operative or other invasive procedures, while developing appropriate plans of care.
- Ability to report to the hospital within thirty minutes of notification for call-outs.
- Demonstrated ability to follow and adhere to Grand Itasca Clinic and Hospital policies, vision, mission and values.
- Maintains reliable and consistent attendance.
Perform other related duties as required. This list is not all-inclusive and any other task or job may be assigned in the future.
Qualifications:
$41.13- $59.57 Hourly