Registered Nurse (OR RN / Circulating Nurse) - ORMC ACC Surgery - Full Time / Day Shift

Orlando Health, Inc.; Orlando (FL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Orlando Health, Inc. is seeking a Circulator Nurse (Perioperative RN) to join the surgical team at the Ambulatory Care Center.

You will oversee non-sterile environment, coordinate supplies and equipment, and serve as a patient advocate throughout the perioperative process, ensuring a safe and efficient surgical experience. The position is a day shift, outpatient role with no weekend, holiday or on‑call requirements, offering work-life balance in a supportive, collaborative team environment at

Qualifications

• Graduate of an approved school of nursing.
• Meets all mandatory, developmental, and performance competency requirements for Orlando Health and unit/department.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates critical knowledge, skills, and judgement to care for patients requiring complex assessment and therapies, high intensity interventions, and high‑level continuous nursing vigilance.
• Utilizes information and assessment data to anticipate and respond with confidence and adapt to rapidly changing patient conditions.
• Identifies and prioritizes information to take immediate and decisive evidence‑based, patient focused action.
• Monitors and adjusts specialized equipment used on patients, and interprets and records electronic displays, such as intracranial pressures, central venous pressures, pulmonary artery pressures, and cardiac rhythms from cardiac monitors, respirators, ventilators, oxygen pumps, etc.
• Responds to life‑saving situations based on nursing standards and protocol.
• Observes, monitors, and assesses patients’ condition, recognizes, identifies, and interprets serious situations and calls Physician or takes preplanned emergency measures when Physician is not immediately available.

Skills

Critical thinking

Education

Nursing degree

Job description

Position Summary

The circulator nurse (Perioperative RN) is a key member of the surgical team responsible for managing non-sterile environment and ensuring a seamless flow of surgical procedures at the Ambulatory Care Center (ACC). This role focuses on maintaining patient safety, coordinating supplies and equipment, and facilitating communication between surgical team members. The circulating nurse serves as a patient advocate throughout the perioperative process, helping to ensure a positive and safe surgical experience.

This is a day shift, outpatient position with no weekend, holiday or on call requirements, offering an excellent opportunity for work life balance in a supportive and collaborative team environment.

ORLANDO HEALTH ORLANDO REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center (ORMC) has served the Central Florida community for more than 100 years. With 808 beds, the downtown Orlando hospital is among the largest acute‑care facilities in the region and the only Level I Trauma Center in Central Florida. The hospital has earned consistent Best Regional Hospitals recognition from U.S. News & World Report and most recently received national top‑50 rankings in two adult specialties and high performing ratings in four specialties and 11 procedures and conditions, as well as a fourth Top Teaching Hospital and a seventh consecutive “A” Hospital Safety Grade from the patient safety advocates at The Leapfrog Group. Orlando Health ORMC holds the most Beacon Awards for Excellence in the state, awarded by the American Association of Critical‑Care Nurses to units that employ evidence‑based practices to improve patient and family outcomes, and has achieved Magnet® recognition, the gold standard for nursing’s contribution to quality patient care, safety, research and service excellence.

Orlando Health ORMC is part of the Orlando Health system of care, which includes award‑winning hospitals and ERs, specialty institutes, urgent care centers, primary care practices and outpatient facilities that span Florida’s east to west coasts, Central Alabama and Puerto Rico. Collectively, our dedicated team members honor our over 100‑year legacy by providing professional and compassionate care to the patients, families and communities we serve.

Orlando Health is committed to providing you with benefits that go beyond the expected, with career‑growing FREE education programs and well‑being services to support you and your family through every stage of life. We begin your benefits on day one and offer flexibility wherever possible, so that you can be present for your passions. “Orlando Health Is Your Best Place to Work” is not just something we say, it’s our promise to you.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates critical knowledge, skills, and judgement to care for patients requiring complex assessment and therapies, high intensity interventions, and high‑level continuous nursing vigilance.
• Utilizes information and assessment data to anticipate and respond with confidence and adapt to rapidly changing patient conditions.
• Identifies and prioritizes information to take immediate and decisive evidence‑based, patient focused action.
• Monitors and adjusts specialized equipment used on patients, and interprets and records electronic displays, such as intracranial pressures, central venous pressures, pulmonary artery pressures, and cardiac rhythms from cardiac monitors, respirators, ventilators, oxygen pumps, etc.
• Responds to life‑saving situations based on nursing standards and protocol.
• Observes, monitors, and assesses patients’ condition, recognizes, identifies, and interprets serious situations and calls Physician or takes preplanned emergency measures when Physician is not immediately available.

Qualifications

Education/Training

• Graduate of an approved school of nursing.
• Meets all mandatory, developmental, and performance competency requirements for Orlando Health and unit/department.

Licensure/Certification

• Maintains current State of Florida RN license or valid eNLC multistate RN license
• Maintains current BLS/Healthcare Provider certification.
• ACLS, TNCC are required for certain areas.

Experience

• Minimum 1 year of OR RN experience required.