RN Clinical Nurse II - Operating Room West

UNC Health; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 50,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

UNC Health in Raleigh, NC is seeking a Clinical Nurse in the UNC Rex OR West unit. The role provides surgical nursing care across multiple service lines with a three 10-hour shift schedule (11am–9pm).

Responsibilities include patient education, care planning, and interdisciplinary collaboration to ensure safe, high-quality outcomes for adult and pediatric patients in a busy hospital setting.

Qualifications

• Graduate of a Board of Nursing approved nursing education program.
• If hired after Jan 6, 2014, must enroll within four years and obtain a BSN or MSN within seven years.

Responsibilities

• Education: identify and meet learning needs of patient and family; use relevant materials.
• Evaluation of care: identify outcomes and revise the care plan; communicate with the care team.
• Implementation: provide care for patients with complex problems and coordinate with team.
• Leadership: set goals for professional growth and promote interdepartmental collaboration.
• Patient assessment: determine priorities and plan for discharge needs; engage families in care decisions.
• Planning: update the plan of care with multidisciplinary input; address cultural needs.
• Research: review journals and discuss applicable findings with the team.

Skills

Nursing care

Intraoperative care

Patient education

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

Board of Nursing approved nursing education program

Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Nursing (within 7 years)

Job description

Description

This position qualifies for recruitment incentives to eligible applicants.

Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.

UNC Rex has a robust and efficient surgical program. We have two separate OR departments that perform both inpatient and outpatient procedures on adult and pediatric populations. Our OR West has 12 Operating Rooms and OR East has 11 Operating Rooms and 2 Procedure Rooms. The Nurses and Surgical Technologists provide intraoperative care for a variety of service lines including Plastics, GYN, GU, General, Bariatrics, Colorectal, Orthopedics, Neuro, Urology, Pulmonology, Robotics, and ENT.

The schedule for this position will be three 10-hour shifts per week, working 11am - 9pm.

Summary:
Provides competent clinical nursing care consistent with professional standards. Reporting and accountable to the Nurse Manager/Director, the Clinical Nurse is responsible for coordinating and delivering patient care utilizing the nursing process in a hospital setting.

Responsibilities:

• Education - Participates in identifying and meeting learning needs of self. Attends education programs based on identified learning needs. With assistance, uses patient education materials relevant to patient population. Assesses readiness to learn of the patient/ family/ caregivers. Assesses developmental level of patient and factors affecting ability to learn.
• Evaluation of Care - Identifies expected patient outcomes. Seeks guidance as needed in revision of plan of care. Participates in discussion with members of the interdisciplinary team in evaluation of patient care. Communicates relevant information to promote continuity of care.
• Implementation - Demonstrates competence in care of patients with complex problems, including population-appropriate physical, psychosocial, educational and safety aspects of care. Performs bedside point of care testing as required for patient care plan. Utilizes healthcare organization and nursing standards, policies and procedures in delivery of care. Organizes and prioritizes care according to patient/family needs. Consults with appropriate resources in a timely fashion regarding patients with complex care issues, unusual teaching needs and/or those at high risk for discharge planning.
• Leadership - With assistance, develops goals to promote professional growth or minimize limitations. Achieves goals and objectives within identified time frame or renegotiates with supervisor. Is knowledgeable about activities which facilitate intra/interdepartmental collaboration. Participates in development and achievement of unit goals and performance improvement activities. Effectively uses communication systems. Participates in promoting cost-effective care. Gives feedback to co-workers. Is aware of public policy and regulatory guidelines affecting the health care environment. Promotes a safe, clean and secure hospital environment for all.
• Patient Assessment - Recognizes data from complex situations to determine priorities for care. Includes appropriate physical, psychosocial, education and safety needs. Synthesizes assessment data into meaningful whole prior to communication to others. Assesses and anticipates discharge needs of individual patients and families. Develops relationships with families that promote their ability to advocate for the patient and their own needs.
• Planning - Collaborates with patient/family to prepare or update the plan of care. Makes use of available multidisciplinary resources in planning care. Begins to use full range of communication as a means to convey planning. Identifies and addresses cultural and ethnic issues in planning patient care. Demonstrates ability to prioritize tasks for patients with complex problems.
• Research - Reads journals that contain studies or articles that may be applicable to practice. Brings ideas and questions to the staff at large for assessment of applicability.

Other Information

Other information:

• Education Requirements: Graduate of a Board of Nursing approved nursing education program.
• Education Requirements: If hired after January 6, 2014, must be enrolled within four years of employment, and obtain a Bachelor's degree with a major in Nursing or a Master's degree with a major in Nursing within seven years of employment date.
• Licensure/Certification Requirements: Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of North Carolina.
• Licensure/Certification Requirements: Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Provider certification
• Professional Experience Requirements: One (1) year of nursing experience.

Job Details

• Legal Employer: NCHEALTH
• Entity: UNC REX Healthcare
• Organization Unit: OR West
• Work Type: Full Time
• Standard Hours Per Week: 30.00
• Salary Range:$35.94 - $54.96 per hour (Hiring Range)
• Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity
• Work Assignment Type: Onsite
• Work Schedule: Evening Job
• Location of Job: US:NC:Raleigh
• Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No
• This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Heath Care System. This is not a State employed position.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

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