RN Peri Op 101 Operating Room

Job Summary and Responsibilities

Depending on your location, you may be eligible for up to $8,000 in relocation assistance!

Nurses are at the heartbeat of our organization and your time will be spent in a supportive, team environment with resources to help you flourish and leaders who care about your success. We offer Certification pay and a Clinical Career Ladder to help you grow and recognize your contributions to clinical excellence! 

Here, you will help advance modern nursing by providing your skills, experience, and commitment to compassionate care. The impact you will make in our faith-based, mission-driven culture will cultivate excellence and achieve professional fulfillment united in humankindness.

As a Registered Nurse (RN) you will assume responsibility and accountability for:

• Facilitating, communicating, and collaborating with both the healthcare team, and the patient/family to identify and meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the patient.
• Promote the optimal health, well-being and safety of the patient through use of the nursing process and in accordance with patient care standards, guidelines and the State Nurse Practice Act.
• Demonstrate personal accountability for relationship-based care, organizational mission, and core values.

**This role will be for experienced RNs that will be new to the OR setting.*

**Previous  RN Experience required- 1 yr min**

Description of new to specialty orientation:  Peri-op 101 is a comprehensive, blended educational program that is developed by AORN's expert perioperative nurse authors, and based on AORN's latest, evidence-based: Guidelines for Perioperative Practice. This program combines a standardized, evidence-based online curriculum and textbook readings with hands-on skills labs and a clinical practicum.

Length of orientation:  This is a six-month paid training program with full benefits. combination of diadactic and clinical education.

Shift expectations: 8-10-hour shifts in length. 4-5 shifts per week during orientation. 

Next Course start date:- 7/20/2026

Nursing Skills Labs include: Sterile technique, Surgical count, Skin Antisepsis, Positioning, Medications and Solutions, Implants, Wound closure and classification, Specimens, Equipment, Documentation, Emergency response, Malignant Hyperthermia, Simulation Lab

Once the program is completed there is no need to reapply to a new position. 

upon succesful completion of peri op 101 -

Day to Day duties:

• Circulate and/or Scrub on all cases.
• Primarily, Spine, Ortho (Totals/ Smaller Sports medicine cases), Robotics, Urology, plastics, ENT, GYN, Eyes, Dental, Gen.
• Associates are cross trained for all services, no specialized service Teams.
• Giving breaks and/or providing additional supplies and sterile instruments as needed during operations.
• Assisting with Room turnover and restocking for next day’s cases.
• Acting as an advocate for patient before, during and after surgery.

9 OR Suites-1 dedicated labor and delivery suite. Labor Delivery attends C-Sections

Approx. 20-30 cases per Day

Schedule: TBD with OR Manager 

Job Requirements

In addition to bringing humankindness to the workplace each day, qualified nursing candidates will need the following:

Education Requirements

• Associates Degree in Nursing required; Nursing Diploma or by endorsement
• Bachelors Degree in Nursing preferred
• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing required for new graduates, preferred for experienced RNs

Experience Requirements

• One year experience preferred
• Nursing skills and knowledge base specific to specialty

Licenses/Certification Requirements

• RN License required; Current state nursing licenses or valid RN license from a participating state in the National Licensure Compact

Physical Requirements 

• Medium Work - (Exert up to 50lbs force occasionally, and/or up to 20lbs frequently, and/or up to 10lbs constantly)

Where You’ll Work

At CommonSpirit Mountain Region, we believe in the healing power of humanity and serving the common good through our dedicated work and shared mission to celebrate humankindness. 

The Surgery department at Mercy Regional Medical Center is a Level III operating room that treats spine, ortho, ENT, GYN patients, a few eye surgeries, some dental, plastics and a mix of general surgical procedures. We have seven ORs with two dedicated to outpatient cases and are strictly surgical for patients one year old and above. We provide care to the Four Corners region and see patients from all over, including occasional trauma. Our department is service oriented, and we care for one another so we all can have a great quality of life and a safe work environment. To be part of this team, individuals must have strong OR skills, be honest, punctual, reliable and have a sense that every day they put their best foot forward for their community and patients.

"We are a close team of individuals working together to ensure the best possible outcomes for our patients. Robotics, Spine, General, Urology, Plastics, Orthopedics and total joint arthroplasty, sports medicine, ENT experience preferred but not required".- Hiring Manager