Registered Nurse (RN) - Perioperative Services, Cardiac Specialty team

Dartmouth-Health-1; Lebanon (NH); On-site; USD 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus

Job summary

Dartmouth Health is seeking an experienced or aspiring OR nurse to join a highly skilled perioperative team in New Hampshire. The role covers circulating and scrubbing duties in cardiac and general surgeries within a Level I Trauma Center setting.

A dedicated perioperative residency program is available for both new and experienced RNs. You'll work with nurses, surgical techs, physicians, and providers to deliver safe, efficient, and high-quality care across a range of procedures in inpatient

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse (RN) license; eligibility to practice in NH.

Responsibilities

• Use the nursing process to assess, diagnose, identify outcomes, plan, implement and evaluate an individualized plan of care.
• Anticipate and respond to changes in patient status; modify the care plan or escalate to the care team as needed.
• Practice per ANA Code of Ethics to advocate for patients and support informed decision-making by patients and families.
• Actively seek feedback and strive to improve performance.
• Engage in governance of practice.
• Maintain professional relationships with the care team.
• Mentor colleagues in nursing practice and professional development.
• Hold authority and accountability for nursing care while delegating tasks as appropriate.

Skills

Nursing

Education

RN license

Job description

Overview

Interested in working for one of the top medical centers in New England and in a Level I Trauma Center?

How about joining a highly specialized team who care for patients needing cardiac surgery?

$35,000 Sign On for experienced CVOR nurses (paid in three installments)

eligible for external hires

The OR with 26 spacious high-tech suites may be just what you're looking for. Both inpatient and outpatient procedures are done in these ORs, care is provided to patients of all age's neonate, pediatric, adult and geriatrics. We have numerous opportunities for growth within the cardiac team and as well as openings in our other perioperative nursing teams.

You’ll be joining a team who both circulate and scrub cardiac cases, participate in minimally invasive valve replacement cases in the cath lab as well as initiate ECMO in our critical care units. While DHMC is situated in a lovely rural area in New Hampshire bordering Vermont, our patients come from throughout New England and beyond. You'd be joining a team of highly trained nurses, certified surgical techs, physicians and associate providers who take pride in providing safe, efficient and effective care to this patient population.

The Registered Nurse is a key member of the surgical team who may function in a circulator or scrubbing capacity. Services include ENT, general surgery, orthopedics, plastic surgery, urology, gynecology, ophthalmology, oral surgery, neuro, robotic, vascular, cardiac and thoracic surgery. We offer a periop 101 residency program for new and experienced RN's looking to enter the field of OR nursing. D-H's Professional Nursing Organization has also implemented a robust program to support nursing growth at the bedside through our Program for Advancing Clinical Excellence (PACE).

Responsibilities

1. Utilizes the nursing process to assess, diagnose, identify outcomes, plan, implement and evaluate an individualized plan of care.
2. Utilizes critical thinking and the nursing process to anticipate and recognize changes in patient status, taking action to modify the plan of care or to elevate to the care team as necessary.
3. Practices in accordance with the ANA Code of Ethics to advocate for patients, uphold their autonomy in decision‑making, ensure informed consent and assist patients in families in expressing self‑determination.
4. Actively seeks feedback and acts to improve performance.
5. Engages in the governance of practice.
6. Manages interpersonal relationships for self and with others.
7. Mentors colleagues for the advancement of nursing practice and the profession.
8. Assumes authority and accountability for the nursing care of patients while appropriately delegating elements of care to others members of the care delivery team in accordance with laws,