Registered Nurse (RN) Circulating Nurse Operating Room-FT-Days

2510 Cobb Hospital, Inc.; Georgia; On-site; USD 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on Bonus

Relocation Assistance

Job summary

Wellstar Cobb Hospital is seeking an experienced RN Clinical Periop Nurse to join a multidisciplinary team. The position emphasizes evidence-based practice, patient-centered care, and adherence to safety standards, with strong leadership to ensure optimal outcomes.

Requirements include BLS, ACLS, PALS, and a minimum of five years of direct patient care. The role supports a collaborative environment with Nurse Managers and WellStar governance, and includes a sign-on bonus and relocation

Qualifications

• Associates degree or diploma in nursing; Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• BLS required; ACLS and PALS certifications required or as specified.
• Minimum 5 years of direct patient care nursing experience.

Responsibilities

• Perform the Nursing Process with evidence-based practice and coordinate care across disciplines.
• Provide patient-centered care respecting age, gender, disease, and cultural diversity.
• Collaborate with the care team through interdisciplinary rounds and timely documentation.
• Participate in performance improvement initiatives and promote safe, high-quality care.
• Serve as a preceptor/mentor to staff and students to sustain a qualified workforce.

Skills

Registered Nurse

BLS Certification

ACLS Certification

PALS Certification

Education

Associates Degree in Nursing or Diploma

Job description

How would you like to work in a place where your contributions and ideas are valued? A place where you can serve with compassion, pursue excellence and honor every voice? At Wellstar, our mission is simple, yet powerful: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. We are proud to have become a shining example of what’s possible when the brightest professionals dedicate themselves to making a difference in the healthcare industry, and in people's lives.

Work Shift Day (United States of America) Are you an experienced Operating Room Nurse, join our team here at Cobb Hospital! Virtual interviews the same week to learn more! Sign on Bonus and Relocation assistance for eligible candidates. Must have BLS, ACLS, and PALS This job is Mon-Fri from 6:45am-7:15pm with call.

Job Summary: The RN Clinical Periop Nurse is a proactive member of an interdisciplinary team of licensed and unlicensed care givers who ensure that patients, families and significant others receive individualized high quality, safe patient care. They practice in a clinical environment that is administered by Nurse Managers and other leaders and is supported through the WellStar Shared Governance Model. The framework for practice is steered by the WellStar Professional Practice Model, 5-Star Nursing and evidence based practice and research. RN competencies are derived from these models and supported by the WellStar Core Competencies. It is expected that all RN Clinical Nurses are licensed, knowledgeable and uphold the practice of nursing as outlined by the Georgia Professional Nurse Practice Act and implements the Scope of Practice and Code of Ethics Standards put forth by the American Nurses Association. As a member of the patient services team, it is expected that the individual upholds the voice of the patient, system policies and procedures while supporting service excellence goals.

Core Responsibilities and Essential Functions

Exemplary Practice and Outcomes

• Performs the Nursing Process (assessment; diagnosis; identification of outcomes; planning; implementation and evaluation) in the performance of clinical care using evidence base practice, uses analytical/critical thinking and ensuring that care is individualized; coordinating care through effective partnerships recognizing that caring is central to achieve optimal patient care outcomes
• Provides relationship-based patient centered care that is consistent with population specific characteristics (e.g. age, gender, disease, etc) in a manner that adapts service delivery to reflect an understanding of cultural diversity
• Always partners with the patient and significant others (as appropriate) using such appropriate method for setting and purpose (e.g., bedside shift report; interdisciplinary rounds; just in time and planned patient teaching; keeping the patient and significant others updated and making the patients goals the focus of the plan of care
• Practices using current clinical practice standards

Teamwork and Collaboration

• Coordinates the delivery and documentation of safe quality patient care that promotes the professional care delivery model. This includes, but is not limited to diverse and inclusive interdisciplinary communication methods (interdisciplinary rounds, case review, etc); completion of timely documentation and promotion of a respectful, inclusive clinical environment
• Demonstrates teamwork and collaboration by practicing in a manner that is fiscally responsible and promotes the recruitment and retention of all healthcare team members
• Participates and supports performance improvement inclusive of all stakeholders, research and research utilization to promote safe, quality patient care including initiating and/or leading such activities as well as, promoting an inter/intra-disciplinary process and actively supports/participates in shared governance at all levels in the system

Professional Development and Initiative

• Completes all initial and ongoing professional competency assessment, required mandatory education, population specific education
• Serves as a preceptor and/or mentor for other professional nurses (and staff or students for all disciplines) to ensure that there is a current and future qualified workforce; modeling the professional practice of nursing and creating a healthy work environment

Evidence Based Practice and Research

• Promotes Evidence based practice, nursing research and performance improvement in nursing. Participates in activities such as value analysis as part of the decision-making process in evaluating patient care products
• Upholds all health care system/organizational policies and procedures and clinical competencies put forth by this job description and professional association including legal, regulatory and accreditation requirements and standards ensuring by way of example, such goals as TJC Patient Safety Goals and Wellstar Health Systems safety absolutes
• Participates in data collection, poses relevant clinical questions to advanced evidence-based practice. Consults appropriate experts and uses appropriate resources and evidence to address practice questions

Resources and Support

• Proactively plans for the care of patients across the care continuum in the course of giving direct patient care
• Participates in the development of protocols and procedures when called upon or through self-initiation in collaboration with care managers and other members of the health care team to achieve best practice outcomes (i.e., decrease in re-admission rates; avoidable days; adverse events; etc)
• Supports efficient and effective use of human and material resources

Complies with all WellStar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct. Performs other duties as assigned

Required Minimum Education

• Associates Nursing or Diploma (Nurse) Nursing or Bachelors Nursing-Preferred

Required Minimum License(s) and Certification(s)

• All certifications are required upon hire unless otherwise stated. RN - Reg Nurse (Single State) or RN-COMPACT - RN - Multi-state Compact
• BLS - Basic Life Support or ARC-BLS - Amer Red Cross Basic Life Support or BLS-I - Basic Life Support - Instructor

Required Minimum Experience

• Minimum 5 years direct patient care nursing experience

Required Minimum Skills

Join us and discover the support to do more meaningful work—and enjoy a more rewarding life. Connect with the most integrated health system in Georgia, and start a future that gives you more.

Nationally ranked and locally recognized for our high-quality care and inclusive culture, Wellstar is one of Georgia’s largest and most integrated healthcare systems. Every day, 24,000+ of us work together to provide personalized care for patients at every age and stage of life – and our team members are the foundation of that care.

Mission, Vision & Values

• OUR MISSION: To enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve
• OUR VISION: Deliver world-class healthcare to every person, every time
• OUR VALUES: We serve with compassion We pursue excellence We honor every voice

Culture of Excellence Wellstar consistently receives attention and accolades from national organizations that set the standards for world-class care. Our system-wide practice of safety principles, assessing and addressing errors and seeking feedback from our patients and customers continually earns recognition for advances in safety and quality. Featured on the FORTUNE “100 Best Companies to Work For” list and Seramount 100 Best Companies list, we not only provide top-notch care for our patients, but also foster the culture of Wellstar as a Great Place to Work.