Staff Nurse Operating Room

Company: University of Tennessee Medical Center
Location: Knoxville
Posted on: January 9, 2021

Job Description:

Position Summary:The RN is responsible for delegating, coordinating, and managing all aspects of nursing care provided to our patients and their families in a safe, timely, cost-effective, and respectful manner. The University of Tennessee Medical Center is passionate about providing excellent nursing care through the use of effective collaboration, evidenced based practice, multidisciplinary approaches, and it's commitment to ongoing professional development.UTMC offers an competitive benefit package which includes:

• Medical, Dental and Vision insurance
• Contribution of 5% of annual salary into retirement account
• Paid time off and extended sick leave accrual
• Annual pay for performance evaluation
• and much moreExperienced Peri-operative, experienced non-experienced Registered Nurses, and new and upcoming Graduate Nurses encouraged to apply.Non- experienced and New Graduate Nurses will be enrolled in robust, Peri-operative Educator led, and highly regarded fellowship as outlined below:The Perioperative RN Fellowship Program is a 30-week training program for registered nurses who are new to the operating room environment. You will experience one week of hospital orientation followed by three weeks of didactic and simulation education as an introduction to the operating room. You will then spend three weeks with a preceptor to further orient you to the operating room and surgical procedures and standards.The next fifteen weeks will be spent with preceptors as you rotate through each of the specialty services including General Surgery, Vascular, Neurology, Cardiac, Urology, GYN, and Robotics.After completion of one week each on evenings and night shifts, the final six weeks are a period of transition as you prepare to function independently upon completion of the program. A one-month trial orientation with a preceptor will allow you to confirm that the operating room environment is right for you.Instruction includes state-of-the-art, specialized equipment including lasers, electrosurgical, laparoscopic equipment and an introduction to basic scrub principles.Surgery Highlights
  • Operating room fellowship program for RNs
  • Expanding the frontiers of medicine with new procedures and practices
  • Robust surgery department with 36 regularly scheduled operating rooms
  • Academic medical center and the area's only Level One Trauma Center
  • Variety of specialty servicesPosition Qualification:Bachelors degree (BSN) or ASN with a signed commitment to acquire BSN within 3 years of hire dateCurrent and unencumbered Registered Nurse licensure in Tennessee, or in the process of obtaining

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