Registered Nurse, Main Operating Room

Company: UVA Medical Center
Location: Charlottesville
Posted on: March 9, 2023

Job Description:

Up to $20,000 sign-on bonus for qualified candidates

Capable clinician focused on expanding knowledge and skills. Consistently provides effective direct care, as part of the interdisciplinary team, to a variety of complex patients. Seeks as well as provides feedback for improved clinical practice. Assumes a beginning leadership role but seeks mentoring in this process.

This job description integrates the ANA 2015 Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, Third Edition; the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements (ANA, 2015); and the UVA Nursing Professional Practice Model.

ANA Scope and Standards of Practice definition of nursing:
Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response; and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations.
Relationship-Based Care - Self and Colleagues: reflects the influence of the nurse's relationship with self, colleagues, and patient/family on the patient experience.
Relationship-Based Care - Patients and Families: reflects the influence of the nurse's relationship with self, colleagues, and patient/family on the patient experience.
Expert Caring: encompasses clinical assessment, planning, prioritizing, coordinating, and implementation of care.
Empowered Leaders: demonstrate knowledge of and actively participate in shared governance.
Lifelong Learners: encompasses professional development through formal education, professional certification, and internal and external learning opportunities. Recognizes the value of external professional organizations. Supports onboarding of new team members and precepts as applicable.
Quality Achievement: includes adherence to clinical documentation guidelines, comprehension of outcomes data, engagement in performance improvement activities, and commitment to standard work.
Innovation: is demonstrated by application of technologies that support patient care, actively seeking to implement evidence-based practice and new knowledge generated by nursing research.

In addition to the above job responsibilities, other duties may be assigned.

Position Compensation Range: $32.23 - $53.18 Hourly

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Education: Graduate of an accredited nursing program required. Bachelor of Science in Nursing required within 5 years of hire.
Experience: 1 year of relevant experience.
Licensure: Licensed to practice as a registered nurse in the Commonwealth of Virginia. American Heart Association (AHA) Healthcare Provider BLS certification required.

When RN Clinician 2 - OR has no OR experience, he/she must successfully complete and pass final examination of the AORN Periop 101 Core Curriculum program within six months of hire.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS
Job requires standing for prolonged periods and frequently bending/stooping. Repetitive motion: passing instruments, lifting instrument sets. Proficient communicative, auditory, and visual skills. Attention to detail and ability to write legibly. Ability to lift/push/pull 100 lbs. May be exposed to cold, radiation, chemicals, blood/body fluids, and infectious disease.

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