Operating Room Registered Nurse (RN) - Night Shift

Overview:

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago is seeking a compassionate and experienced Operating Room Registered Nurse (RN) to join our team in a night shift position. As a Registered Nurse in our Operating Room, you will provide high-quality patient care while working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

Responsibilities:

• Performs functions of scrub nurse, circulating nurse, or RN First Assistant (if credentialed) to provide intra-operative nursing care following Lurie Children's Operating Room policies.
• Facilitates specialty service and inter-departmental communications including surgeons, vendors, and contracted services. Assures availability of specialty service instruments and equipment.
• Participates in the orientation, evaluation, and continuing education of the Operating Room staff.
• Facilitates the team concept by selecting staff members with appropriate skill levels for team participation, ensuring optimum utilization of team members, and using structured team conferences to provide mechanism for team evaluation of patient care.
• Communicates with primary nurses and APNs to provide continuity of peri-operative patient care.
• Assists in revising, updating, and developing policies and procedures for the Operating Room, Recovery Room, and Outpatient Surgery. Promotes compliance to standards set by Lurie Children's, JCAHO, IDPH, OSHA, AORN, and other regulatory bodies.
• Develops expenditure proposals to incorporate into the annual capital and operations budgets. Ensures an adequate inventory of specialty supplies and equipment.
• Participates in hospital committees as requested. Participates in Operating Room activities to include on-call coverage.
• Performs job functions adhering to service principles with a customer service focus of innovation, service excellence, and teamwork to provide the highest quality care and service to our patients, families, co-workers, and others.
• Demonstrates knowledge of pertinent aspects and competency with protocols related to the use of chemical disinfection, high-level disinfection, and sterilization if required as part of the responsibilities of the role.

Qualifications:

• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing. BSN preferred. ADN accepted with BSN commitment.
• Current licensure: as a registered professional nurse in the State of Illinois.
• A minimum of three years: operating room experience, preferably in a surgical specialty area at Lurie Children's.
• Ability to hold: children and react quickly to emergency situations.
• Ability to lift/move: patients and equipment sometimes in excess of 20 pounds.

Benefits:

• Competitive and fair compensation aligned with market rates and internal equity
• Comprehensive rewards package, including differentials for some hourly employees, leadership incentives, health and retirement benefits, and wellbeing programs
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Employer-paid group term life and disability
• Employer contribution toward Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid Time Off (PTO), Paid Holidays, and Paid Parental Leave
• 403(b) with a 5% employer match
• Various voluntary benefits, including supplemental life, AD&D, and disability insurance, critical illness, accident, and hospital indemnity coverage, tuition assistance, student loan servicing and support, adoption benefits, backup childcare and eldercare, and employee assistance program