Operating Room Registered Nurse

Where You’ll Work

CHI St. Joseph’s Health of Park Rapids, part of CommonSpirit Health, is an award-winning, 25-bed critical access hospital located in the heart of lake country. Fully accredited by The Joint Commission, we offer a full range of services including 24/7/365 Emergency Department and Level IV Trauma Center, hospitalist program, testing, surgery, orthopedics, rehabilitation, and more so that you can experience better health. 

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As an Operating Room Registered Nurse (OR RN) at CHI St. Joseph's Health, you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality perioperative care that truly impacts our surgical patients' well-being and recovery.

Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing sterile, patient-centered care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within our interdisciplinary surgical team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

To thrive in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement within a faith-based healthcare system.

Responsibilities:

• Provide comprehensive pre-operative, intra-operative, and immediate post-operative assessment, planning, and evaluation of surgical patients.
• Prepare the operating room, ensuring equipment, instruments, and sterile field meet AORN standards and patient-specific needs.
• Circulate and/or scrub for diverse surgical procedures, actively anticipating surgeon's needs and maintaining patient safety.
• Accurately document all aspects of patient care, surgical events, and interventions in the electronic health record.
• Collaborate effectively with surgeons, anesthesiologists, surgical technologists, and other care team members to optimize patient outcomes.
• Implement nursing interventions delegated, ordered, or prescribed by a licensed healthcare provider within the perioperative setting.
• Maintain strict adherence to aseptic technique, infection control protocols, and patient safety initiatives (e.g., time-out).

Job Requirements

Required

• Graduate of accredited professional nursing education program.
• Registered Nurse Licensed by the State of Minnesota.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) issued by the American Heart Association (AHA).
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS).
• Obtain Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) within one (1) year of start date.

Preferred

• OR/PACU experience.