Registered Nurse Operating Room

CommonSpirit Health; Lakewood (CO); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

CommonSpirit Health is seeking a Registered Nurse for the Operating Room at Ortho Colorado in Colorado. The role supports orthopedic surgeries, providing direct patient advocacy, intraoperative assistance, and care coordination across a specialized surgical team.

Responsibilities include performing circulating duties, managing sterile instruments, assisting with room turnover, and ensuring high-quality patient care.

Qualifications

• Associate's Degree in Nursing; Nursing Diploma or by endorsement.
• RN License in state of employment.
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing preferred.
• One year experience preferred; OR experience with Orthopedic/Sports Medicine cases highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assess patient needs using nursing assessment, interview and review of records.
• Develop and implement care plans with the interprofessional team and monitor outcomes.
• Perform circulating duties and intraoperative support, including instrument management and room turnovers.
• Maintain accurate patient charts and use IT to communicate, document interventions and outcomes.
• Educate patient and family using assessed learning readiness and needs.

Skills

Communication skills

Collaboration

Compassionate patient care

Education

Associate's Degree in Nursing

Bachelor's Degree in Nursing

Job description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our RN, you will assume responsibility for facilitating, communicating, and collaborating with the healthcare team and patient/family to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the patient, advancing modern nursing through compassionate care.

Every day you will promote optimal patient health, well-being, and safety through the nursing process, adhering to patient care standards, guidelines, and the State Nurse Practice Act, and demonstrating personal accountability for relationship-based care and our organizational mission.

To be successful in this role, you will be a Registered Nurse with a commitment to compassionate, high-quality patient care, strong communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to apply the nursing process effectively within a supportive, mission-driven environment.

• Assess patient’s physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs through observation, interview, review of medical records & clinical data.
• Evaluates patient’s response and intervenes to ensure optimal patient outcome. Develop and implement patient plan of care and observe outcomes in accordance with nursing standards and in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
• Demonstrate competency in a variety of therapeutic/diagnostic interventions including, but not limited to, IV’s, incision/wound care, medication administration, catheterization, and specimen collections.
• Thorough and confidential maintenance of patient charts and records. Document ongoing status, interventions, patient response and outcomes in an accurate, timely manner. Use information technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decisionmaking.
• Promote, advocate, and collaborate to protect the health and safety and rights of each patient.
• Provide patient/family education through assessment of patient/family learning readiness, needs, and ability. Provide teaching and evaluate effectiveness of teaching.

Schedule- PRN- Variable days of week and start times per Surgical Volume and Current Unit needs. TBD with OR manager during interviews.

Per policy PRN requires a Min availability for 5 shifts in a 6 week schedule block.

M-F. No Call, No Nights, No Weekends.

Schedule is made every 6 weeks by the manager

No surgeries on holidays or weekends.Like a Surgery center. No weekends no nights. No Call!!

Job Requirements

Required

• Associate's Degree in Nursing; Nursing Diploma or by endorsement
• RN License in state of employment

Preferred

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
• One (1) year experience
• Previous OR experience with Ortho/ Sports Medicine cases highly preferred

Where You'll Work

As a Registered Nurse in teh Operating Room at Ortho Colorado, you will provide direct patient advocacy and clinical support across an 8-suite surgical department that averages 450–550+ procedures monthly. As a specialized orthopedic hospital, the facility focuses exclusively on total joint replacements (hips, shoulders, knees, and ankles), spine surgery, and sports medicine. Supporting a comprehensive care continuum, the facility features 11 pre-op beds, 10 PACU bays, and 48 inpatient beds, ensuring high-quality, specialized surgical care for every patient. Daily duties include performing circulating functions, providing intraoperative support such as managing sterile instruments and supplies, facilitating room turnovers, and restocking for subsequent procedures.

OrthoColorado Hospital is Colorado's only orthopedic specialty hospital and is designed specifically for the orthopedic patient. With such a specialized facility and team of experts, we have the utmost in experience and understanding of the needs of orthopedic patients � meaning better outcomes, increased patient satisfaction and a reduced risk of infection or complications. Located on the St. Anthony Medical Campus, OrthoColorado Hospital is a joint venture between physician investors and CommonSpirit Mountain Region. Our state-of-the-art facility features a 48-bed inpatient unit, including six intermediate care beds and eight operating rooms. All members of our team from pre-operative care through recovery and our in-patient nurses are specialty trained in orthopedics. Our surgeons are renowned for their talent, knowledge and experience in their orthopedic specialties and subspecialties. Having a team with a focused background and years of experience allow our employees to provide an unprecedented level of care, resulting in the best outcomes and experience for our patients.