Operating Room Nurse FT
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Surgery Center of Chevy Chase, is seeking a motivated OR Registered Nurse to join our team. Surgery Center of Chevy Chase is a fast paced ASC environment committed to producing the highest quality work and experience for patients and their families.

Job Summary

The Registered Nurse, operating room, provides nursing care and service during surgery cases. The RN will be responsible for positioning the patient, prepping the patient, and circulating the case. Experienced in surgical procedures in the following specialties: Orthopedics, ENT, General, GI, Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Pain, Plastic, Podiatry, Urology.

Qualifications:

• Graduate of an approved school of nursing.
• Currently licensed in the state. CPR required, advanced life support certification required.
• One year experience required intra-operative setting.
• Demonstrates clinical competency, leadership, and teaching capabilities.
• Physically and emotionally capable of performing responsibilities of position.

Who We Are

At USPI, we create relationships that create better care. We partner with physicians and health care systems to provide first class ambulatory solutions throughout the United States. We are committed to providing surgical services in the most efficient and clinically excellent manner.

USPI is committed to, and proud of our inclusive culture. An inclusive culture, in our view, is respectful of differences and nurtures and supports the contributions of each individual, while also embracing and leveraging diversity. A diverse workforce, combined with an inclusive culture, makes USPI stronger and better able to meet the needs of our diverse patient and physician population.

Benefits

USPI offers the following benefits, subject to employment status:

• Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
• Paid time off (vacation & sick leave)
• 401k retirement plan
• Paid holidays
• Health savings accounts, healthcare & dependent flexible spending accounts
• Employee Assistance Program, Employee discount program
• Voluntary benefits include pet insurance, legal insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, long-term care, elder & childcare, AD&D, auto & home insurance.

Salary range: Min $45 to Max $59.64

EDUCATION, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
• Currently licensed in the state
• Current BLS, ACLS and PALS
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in PACU or ICU

SKILLS REQUIRED:

• Interdependent Partnering
• Good communication and human relations skills.
• Mastering Complexity
• Ability to organize and follow through on own initiative.
• Ability to master new skills.
• Technical/Functional
• Thorough knowledge of all phases of perioperative process including knowledge of surgical procedures and anesthesia implications.
• Current nursing assessment and patient care skills.
• Telemetry experience necessary
• Education
• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Current license to practice nursing in the state.
• CPR certified. ACLS certification is required within 6 months of employment if not currently certified.
• Experience
• Critical Care or PACU experience preferred.
• Work environment
• Outpatient Surgery
• Physical demands (i.e. works on a computer, use of telephone, lifts up to 50 lbs.)
• Works on computer, uses telephone.
• Intermittent physical mobility/activity including walking, standing, sitting. Light lifting, pulling and pushing of carts, equipment, etc., Must be able to bend body downward at the waist, be able to kneel.

The above statements reflect the general outline considered necessary to describe the principal functions of this job. It shall not be construed as a detailed description of all work requirements of the position.

Employment practices will not be influenced or affected by an applicant's or employee's race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status or any other legally protected status. Tenet will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship.