Fairview Health Services is hiring a Registered Nurse (RN) to join our Operating Room (OR) team at St. John’s Hospital in Maplewood, MN!

The Operating Room at St. John’s Hospital provides offers a warm, inviting atmosphere and caring, personal staff. State of the art technology, combined with the expertise of our specialists, nurses and staff, contribute to our innovative healing environment and compassionate health care delivery. We are committed to providing outstanding health care to our growing community. Our 184 bed facility offers a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic services.

Schedule:

This Operating room nursing position will be working a 0.01 FTE Casual position on the day/evening shift, 8 hour shifts and variable schedules.

About the OR at St. Johns:

• St. John’s OR has 8 Operating Rooms with supporting Preop and Postop department adjacent.
• It is a Robotic Center of Excellence as well as Bariatric Center of Excellence with General, Urology, GYN and Oncology being the largest Volume of Robotic cases.
• Surgeries in this Unit include: Open Heart, complex and simple Neuro-spine, General, GYN, Plastics, Breast, the Kidney Stone Institute, ENT, Oral, Urology, Vascular, GI, Hernia, Thyroid, and traumatic Orthopedic
• A new Cardiac Cath lab and Hybrid room adjacent to the OR. 

About Fairview:

Fairview Health Services is an industry-leading, award-winning nonprofit that offers an entire network of healthcare services. Fairview is one part of M Health Fairview, a partnership between the University of Minnesota, M Physicians and Fairview Health Services. Together, we combine the University’s deep history of clinical innovation and training with Fairview’s extensive roots in community medicine. Our care portfolio includes community hospitals, academic hospitals, primary and specialty care clinics, senior facilities, facilitated living centers, rehabilitation centers, home health care services, counseling, pharmacies and benefit management services.

Apply today to join our 34,000 employees and 5,000 system providers working to build lasting relationships with the people we serve: our patients, our communities, and each other!

As an Operating Room Registered Nurse, you will be responsible for:

• Utilizing the nursing process, including assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation, to coordinate outcome focused patient care. Throughout this process, also understands and incorporates holistic nursing theory based on Watson's Theory of Caring aligning with the practice standards of the American Holistic Nurses Association whenever holistic therapy is offered
• Coordinating care with members of the health care team and delegates responsibilities to others as appropriate.
• Confirming identity before the operative or invasive procedure and verifies operative procedure, surgical site and laterality.
• Appling principles of aseptic technique and safety while establishing and maintaining sterile fields.
• Ensuring perioperative environmental sanitation.
• Actively participating in the development and achievement of department goals (safety, cost, quality, patient experience, employee engagement)
• Supporting patients’ rights and ethics by delivering consistent, proficient, and ethical care, within legal standards of practice, while maintaining privacy and support of the patient’s value system.
• Demonstrating knowledge of the health system environment and administrative issues that impact job performance, patient safety, and ethical considerations.

Required Qualifications:

• Valid Basic Life Support (BLS) certification
• Valid RN Licensure from MN Board of Nursing
• RN with 2 years recent operating room experience 

Preferred Qualification: 

• BSN
• Experience in Robotic Surgeries as well as General and Vascular surgeries.
• 1 year charge nurse experience