RN Operating Room RRMC

Riverside Regional Medical Center; Newport News (VA); On-site; USD 56,000 - 77,000; Full time

Job summary

Riverside Regional Medical Center in Newport News, VA seeks a Specialty Nurse to oversee the nursing care of surgical patients. You will collaborate with physicians, staff, and leadership to coordinate care across the surgical specialty and ensure safe patient transitions.

The role emphasizes evidence-based practice, timely throughput, and coordination of education for OR staff, with responsibilities including competency validation and quality documentation.

Qualifications

• RN licensure required; Virginia or compact state.

Responsibilities

• Assess patient clinical and psychosocial needs and apply standards of practice for the specialty.
• Collaborate with patients and families to develop and evaluate the plan of care.
• Coordinate care with physicians, staff, vendors, and surgical leadership.
• Facilitate safe patient transitions and ensure ethical, high-quality care.
• Delegate and prioritize tasks to maintain care quality and respond to emergencies.
• Coordinate with physicians and leadership for equipment, staff education, and product standardization.

Skills

Patient assessment

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Emergency response

Patient education

Care coordination

Education

Bachelor's Degree, Nursing

Associates Degree, Nursing

Nursing Diploma Program

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Newport News, VirginiaHiring Range$41.00 - $56.38/Hourly Actual pay is determined based on job-related factors such as relevant experience, education, credentials, skills, internal equity, and business needs.OverviewWorks under the supervision of the OR Nurse Manager and the Clinical Director and is responsible for ensuring operational oversight of surgical cases and the assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the total nursing care of assigned patients. The Specialty Nurse is responsible for ensuring that proper preparation has taken place for surgical cases within the designated specialty through coordination with physicians, staff members, vendors, and surgical leadership. The Specialty Nurse will sit on the Surgical Services Value Analysis Team (VAT) and participate in product standardization efforts.What you will doDemonstrates ability to assess patient clinical ands psychosocial needs by applying standards of practice as it relates to the specialty or patient population served.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.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.Successfully coordinates with physicians, employees and leadership to meet specialty-specific needs; to include, employee education, equipment/supply needs, and physician preferences.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.Works to implement cost-saving measures for assigned specialty through limited supply use accurate documentation and auditing of specialty charts, coordination with vendors and achieving physician support for product standardization.Works to train all staff assigned to the specialty to a level of proficiency with documented competencies. Engages physicians in the training process. Works directly with the specialty tech and lead first assistant to ensure competencies are valid and complete for surgical techs. Works with OR Educator to ensure completion of specialty specific competencies for all OR staff.QualificationsEducationBachelors Degree, Nursing (Preferred) orAssociates Degree, Nursing (Preferred) orProgram Graduate, Nursing Diploma Program (Required) andHigh School Diploma or GED, Only required if Nursing Diploma Graduate (Required)Experience2 years OR RN Experience (Preferred)1 year Demonstrated proficiency in Surgical Specialty (Required)Licenses and CertificationsRegistered Nurse (RN) - Virginia Department of Health Professions (VDHP) or licensed in a compact state (Required) andCPR/BLS Certification - American Heart Association/American Red Cross/American Safety and Health Institute (AHA/ARC) (Required) andACLS Provider - American Heart Association/American Red Cross/American Safety and Health Institute (AHA/ARC) (Required)Certified Perioperative Nurse (CNOR) (Preferred)Other RequirementsCall RotationIrregular ShiftsTo learn more about being a team member with Riverside Health System visit us at https://www.riversideonline.com/careers.