Operating Room Registered Nurse (RN) | Monday–Thursday Schedule

Position Overview

Fairview is hiring a Registered Nurse (RN) to join our Operating Room (OR) team at University of Minnesota Medical Center West Bank Campus and Masonic Children's Hospital. Location: Minneapolis, MN. We are seeking a hardworking and motivated RN to serve both adult and pediatric populations while working alongside surgical technologists, nursing assistants, schedulers, instrument technicians, and MDs. We offer cross service training under the guidance of our RN supervisors and RN educator, emphasizing safety and patient advocacy.

Schedule: This position will be working 64 hours every 2 weeks on the night shift Monday-Thursday, 8 hour shifts.

About the OR at UMMC West Bank: UMMC West Bank is a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Minnesota, featuring 15 operating rooms, a Donor Care Unit Suite, an EP Lab, and a Cath Lab that serves an average of 36 cases per day with innovative surgical suites for both adult and pediatric patients.

About Fairview: Fairview Health Services is an award-winning nonprofit offering an extensive network of healthcare services including community and academic hospitals, primary and specialty care clinics, senior facilities, and more. Join our 34,000+ employees and 5,000+ system providers in building lasting relationships with our patients and communities.

Key Responsibilities

• Assesses patient needs and identifies expected nursing outcomes.
• Involves the patient, family and other health team members in gathering data.
• Uses an ongoing, systematic process to gather relevant information (biological, psychological, spiritual and social aspects) from patient and family.
• Analyzes data and information to identify potential risks, prioritize needs and determine priority problems.
• Identifies outcomes that are age appropriate, culturally appropriate, realistic and attainable, and validates these with the patient, family, and other health team members.
• Documents data, identified outcomes, and nursing interventions based on the plan of care.
• Implements nursing interventions in accordance with all relevant policies, procedures, and nursing practice guidelines.
• Coordinates nursing care with other members of the health care team and appropriately delegates care activities.
• Initiates patient/family teaching based on age, readiness to learn, and available resources.
• Collaborates, consults, or refers if unable to perform safely and independently.
• Ensures all actions are based on scientific, ethical, or ecological principles, proven effectiveness, past experience, practice standards, patient/family values, or legal parameters.
• Utilizes a full range of therapeutic modalities to support and augment the healing process, progressing from the least intensive to more invasive interventions as needed.
• Anticipates, recognizes, and responds to emergent situations.

Required Qualifications

• MN Registered Nurse (RN) License
• Basic Life Support (American Heart Association or Red Cross)
• 2 Years Operating Room Experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing or BAN
• 1-3 years of additional experience

Benefits & Perks

• Fairview offers a generous benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage, PTO/vacation and Safe and Sick Time, tuition reimbursement, retirement plans, and more. For additional information, please visit: https://www.fairview.org/benefits/tcmnarn