OR RN Children's

Baylor Scott & White Health; Belton (TX); On-site; USD 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & welfare benefits

401(k) savings plan with 5% match

Tuition reimbursement

PTO accrual beginning Day 1

Job summary

Baylor Scott & White Health invites a Pediatric Operating Room Registered Nurse to join McLane Children’s Hospital in Temple, TX. This full-time day shift offers four 10-hour days in a 5-room pediatric OR setting serving infants to adolescents across multiple specialties.

The ideal candidate has OR experience in a pediatric surgical environment, strong teamwork, and a commitment to high-quality perioperative care within a leading not-for-profit health system.

Qualifications

• OR experience in a pediatric surgical setting.
• Procedural area experience in OR, GI, Cath Lab, or similar settings.
• RN with valid license and BLS certification (Texas).

Responsibilities

• Assess patient and coordinate care using the nursing process.
• Develop and evaluate individualized care plans and delegate interventions.
• Maintain a safe environment and manage patient comfort and pain relief.
• Collaborate with the surgical team to ensure efficient operations.
• Educate patients and families about perioperative care.

Skills

Operating Room experience

Procedural area experience

Education

Nursing

Job description

Registered Nurse (RN) - Pediatric Operating Room

Location: BSWH McLane Children's Hospital - Temple, TX

Schedule: Full-Time, Days, (4) 10s

Department: OR Pediatric Surgery

• 5 Operating Rooms

About The Role

McLane Children's is seeking a passionate and motivated Pediatric OR RN to join our high-performing surgical services team. This role offers the opportunity to develop a rare and highly specialized skill set within a 5-room pediatric operating suite - serving infants, children, and adolescents across a wide range of surgical specialties.

As our volumes grow and new service lines expand, this position is ideal for an RN who is eager to learn, grow, and contribute to the advancement of our pediatric surgical program.

What You'll Love About This Role

• Pediatric Operating Room Experience: Build expertise in a unique and highly specialized care environment.
• Growth & Development: Opportunity to help grow new service lines over the next 12-24 months, including:
• Pediatric cardiac surgery
• Interventional radiology
• Cath lab services
• Additional advanced procedural offerings
• Supportive Team Culture: Join a tight-knit team that cares deeply for one another and for the children we serve.
• Meaningful Impact: Provide life-changing surgical care for pediatric patients and families throughout Central Texas.

Preferred Skills

• Operating Room experience
• Procedural area experience (OR, GI, Cath Lab, etc.)

About Us

Here at Baylor Scott & White Health we promote the well-being of all individuals, families, and communities. Baylor Scott and White is the largest not-for-profit healthcare system in Texas that empowers you to live well.

Our Core Values Are

• We serve faithfully by doing what's right with a joyful heart.
• We never settle by constantly striving for better.
• We are in it together by supporting one another and those we serve.
• We make an impact by taking initiative and delivering exceptional experience.

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to help you live well no matter where you are on your journey. For full details on coverage and eligibility, visit the Baylor Scott & White Benefits Hub to explore our offerings, which may include:

• Immediate eligibility for health and welfare benefits
• 401(k) savings plan with dollar-for-dollar match up to 5%
• Tuition Reimbursement
• PTO accrual beginning Day 1

Note: Benefits may vary based upon position type and/or level.

Job Summary

The Operating Room (OR) Registered Nurse (RN) is a licensed professional. The RN uses the BSWH nursing model to coordinate patient care. Using the nursing process, the RN assesses the patient and identifies nursing diagnoses. The RN develops and implements an individualized care plan and evaluates the patient's response. The RN promotes safe passage for patients by using knowledge of patient needs. The RN helps patients transition through healthcare without preventable complications or delays. The RN delegates interventions based on the Texas Nursing Practice Act, patient condition, and employee competencies.

Essential Functions Of The Role

• Clinical Judgment: Using clinical reasoning, conducts accurate assessments according to standards. Identifies and prioritizes patient and family needs. Develops, implements, and evaluates the nursing care plan. Modifies plan to meet outcomes.
• Clinical Inquiry: Evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice, including nursing indicators. Helps evidence-based practice changes through research and learning. Participates in quality improvement initiatives.
• Caring Practices: Creates an attentive, helpful, safe, and therapeutic environment for patients, families, and staff. Develops therapeutic relationships with patients and families and maintains appropriate boundaries. Manages fiery and physical pain to promote relief and healing and prevent unnecessary suffering.
• Response to Diversity: Recognizes and appreciates a patient's and family's unique differences. Incorporates culture, beliefs, gender, race, ethnicity, lifestyle, status, age, and values into a care plan.
• Advocacy and Moral Agency: Preserves and protects the confidentiality, autonomy, dignity, and rights of patients and families. Represents their concerns. Creates an individualized plan that reflects patient and family values and goals. Identifies and helps resolve ethical and clinical concerns.
• Facilitation of Learning: Facilitates learning for patients, families, nursing staff, health care team, and community. Integrates education throughout care to help them make informed health care recommendations. Includes health promotion and disease prevention. Assesses and documents learning needs and outcomes.
• Partnership: Works with colleagues and community to create and implement a care plan. Open and attentive to all team members' unique contributions. Delegates tasks to appropriate staff and ensures timely follow-up.
• Systems Thinking: Uses strategies and resources for problem-solving for patients, family, and staff. Recognizes limited resources and considers safety, effectiveness, and efficiency in planning and delivering patient care.

Key Success Factors

• Knowledge and expertise of nursing and patient care standards and procedures.
• Know laws, rules, and regulations. Comprehend standards and guidelines of certifying and accrediting bodies. Follow hospital and department/unit standards, protocols, policies, and procedures for nursing care in the assigned area.
• Knowledge of medical terminology, health promotion, risk reduction, and disease prevention and management. Know About medications, common dosages, effects, and possible adverse reactions.
• Knowledge of medical and professional nursing ethics and patient privacy rights.
• Must be able to communicate thoughts clearly, both verbally and in writing.
• Social skills to interact with a wide range of constituencies.
• Must have critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Observe changes in patients' medical conditions and communicate them to nursing staff and physicians/providers.
• Provide age-specific, quality, patient-centered care through the nursing process and standards. Respect the diversity of human experience. Develop, evaluate, implement, and modify patient care plans as needed.
• General computer skills include Microsoft Office, information security, scheduling and payroll systems, electronic medical documentation, and email.

Belonging Statement

We believe that all people should feel welcomed, valued and supported.

Qualifications

• EDUCATION - Grad of an Accredited Program or 2 years of work experience above the minimum qualification
• MAJOR - Nursing
• EXPERIENCE - 2 Years of Experience

CERTIFICATION/LICENSE/REGISTRATION

• Registered Nurse (RN)
• Basic Life Support (BLS): BLS or BLS within 30 days of hire or transfer.