Registered Nurse (RN) - Operating Room

101 Riverside Hospital, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 53,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

Riverside Health System in Newport News, VA seeks a Registered Nurse to provide comprehensive nursing care across shifts within Critical Care/Telemetry settings. You will assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care, delegating tasks as needed while ensuring patient safety and quality outcomes.

The ideal candidate holds a BSN (preferred), Virginia RN license, and CPR/BLS certification. The role emphasizes evidence-based practice and patient education in a multidisciplinary team environment.

Qualifications

• Active nursing licensure required in Virginia (or eligibility)
• Experience in healthcare settings, preferably in nursing
• Strong communication and critical thinking skills

Responsibilities

• Assess patient clinical and psychosocial needs according to unit standards
• Collaborate with patients and families to develop and evaluate care plans
• Incorporate evidence-based standards of practice
• Coordinate with interdisciplinary team for patient care
• Facilitate safe patient transitions to the next care setting
• Demonstrate urgency to ensure throughput and quality care
• Educate patients and families, including discharge planning
• Complete all required documentation per RHS standards and regulations

Skills

Nursing

Critical Care

Patient education

Team collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Nursing

RN license

Job description

Overview

Newport News, Virginia Hiring Range $38.60 - $53.08/Hourly Actual pay is determined based on job-related factors such as relevant experience, education, credentials, skills, internal equity, and business needs.

This position is responsible for the assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the total nursing care of assigned patients. The RN may work in a variety of settings and roles within Riverside Health System. The RN utilizes communication, critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making to create a care plan for each patient based on physiological, psychosocial and cultural diversity. Responsible for supervising and delegating non-professional personnel working directly with him/her to ensure optimum patient care. Must demonstrate competence in dealing with age related needs of the specific patient populations. Works under the direction of leadership and a multi-disciplinary team to provide a comprehensive range of services or clinical care associated with and in accordance with standards of excellence established by Riverside Health system and facility goals and strategic plans.

What you will do

• Demonstrates ability to assess patient clinical and psychosocial needs by applying standards of practice as it relates to the specialty or patient population served in the Critical Care/Telemetry units/departments (see unit specific competencies and equipment checklists).
• Partners with patients and families to develop, implement and evaluate plan of care, treatments and procedures that contribute to the physiological and psychosocial outcomes of the patient.
• Assesses and incorporates evidence-based standards of practice.
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary team in the coordination care.
• Facilitates safe patient transitions to the next care setting as part of plan of care.
• Demonstrates a sense of urgency to facilitate patient throughput to assure patients receive consistent, competent, and ethical care.
• Focuses on quality outcomes of patient care when addressing customer’s needs to include current evidence based practice and quality measures.
• Demonstrates understanding of diverse patient care populations and ability to modify education method to ensure patient/family comprehension.
• Educates by assuming responsibility to individualize and coordinate patient education, and discharge specific education that includes family/caregiver.
• Evaluates for patient comprehension and documents.
• Accurately completes all required clinical and quality documentation consistently per RHS standards and regulatory requirements.
• Ability to delegate and prioritize tasks appropriately to facilitate quality patient care and ensure patient care needs are met.
• Able to recognize and respond to emergency situations.
• Evaluates own needs for support and uses identified systems to meet need.

Qualifications

• Education Bachelors Degree, Nursing (Preferred)
• Experience Healthcare/Medical - Nurse: Registered Nurse (Preferred)
• Licenses and Certifications Registered Nurse (RN) - Virginia Department of Health Professions (VDHP) (Required)
• CPR/BLS Certification - American Heart Association/American Red Cross/American Safety and Health Institute (AHA/ARC) (Required)

If loving your work is important to you, consider a career at Riverside. By joining our team, you can make a difference in people's lives. Our mission is to care for others as we would care for those we love. We extend that sense of caring to every patient, resident and customer, as well as to each member of our team. We offer care at all stages of life, in hundreds of locations, giving you room to grow your career, along with great benefits and perks. At Riverside Health, your trust and safety are our top priorities.