Operating Room Nurse - RN

Company: UCHealth
Location: Pueblo
Posted on: February 18, 2025

Job Description:

Operating Room Nurse - RN at UCHealth summary:
An Operating Room Nurse (RN) at UCHealth provides direct patient care in the perioperative environment, ensuring quality and safety while utilizing evidence-based practices. Responsibilities include precepting new healthcare professionals and contributing to a multidisciplinary team to achieve exceptional patient outcomes. The role demands relevant experience, state licensure, and completion of BLS certification, emphasizing UCHealth's commitment to improving lives through innovative healthcare.
Description

Location: UCHealth UCHth Parkview Medical Center, US:CO:Pueblo

Department: Surgery

FTE: Full Time, 1.0, 80.00 hours per pay period (2 weeks)

Shift: Days

Pay: $37.06 - $57.44 / hour. Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience

• Graduate of an accredited or state board of nursing approved Registered/Professional Nursing program.
• State licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN).
• 6 months of OR nursing (RN) experience or completion of the UCHealth Fellowship program.
• BLS - BLS through the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross CPR for the Professional Rescuer with card in-hand before start date. BLS or CPR card must be good through sixty days of hire.
  
  At UCHealth, We Improve Lives
  
  Picture yourself on a dynamic team improving lives in the following way(s):
  
  
  • Provides top of scope practice in direct patient care utilizing the nursing process
  • Values a multidisciplinary team approach to achieve exceptional outcomes
  • Prioritizes wellness, a patient perspective and evidence-based practice
  • Models proficiency through precepting those new to healthcare and/or UCHealth
  • Welcomes new knowledge in a fast paced, innovative clinical environment
  • Contributes to secure safety and quality at the point of care
    Perioperative:
    
    
    • Direct care includes practice in Perioperative, PACU (Post Anesthesia Care Unit) or Operating Room levels of care
    • AORN and ABPANC core curriculum and certifications standards are included in evidence-based care models
    • Clinical Educators support and guide individualized specialty education and training for competency validation throughout clinical orientation.
      
      We improve lives. In big ways through learning, healing, and discovery. In small, personal ways through human connection. But in all ways, we improve lives.
      
      UCHealth invests in its Workforce.
      
      UCHealth offers a Five Year Incentive Bonus to recognize employee's contributions to our success in quality, patient experience, organizational growth, financial goals, and tenure with UCHealth. The bonus accumulates annually each October and is paid out in October following completion of five years' employment.
      
      UCHealth offers their employees a competitive and comprehensive total rewards package:
      
      
      • Medical, dental and vision coverage including coverage for eligible dependents
      • 403(b) with employer matching contributions
      • Time away from work: paid time off (PTO), paid family and medical leave (inclusive of Colorado FAMLI), leaves of absence; start your employment at UCHealth with PTO in your bank
      • Employer-paid basic life and accidental death and dismemberment coverage with buy-up coverage options
      • Employer paid short term disability and long-term disability with buy-up coverage options
      • Wellness benefits
      • Full suite of voluntary benefits such as flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent care, health savings accounts (available with HD/HSA medical plan only), identity theft protection, pet insurance, and employee discount programs
      • Education benefits for employees, including the opportunity to be eligible for 100% of tuition, books and fees paid for by UCHealth for specific educational degrees. Other programs may qualify for up to $5,250 pre-paid by UCHealth or in the form of tuition reimbursement each calendar year
        Loan Repayment:
        
        • UCHealth is a qualifying employer for the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program! UCHealth provides employees with free assistance navigating the PSLF program to submit their federal student loans for forgiveness through Savi.
          UCHealth always welcomes talent. This position will be open for a minimum of three days and until a top applicant is identified.
          
          UCHealth recognizes and appreciates the rich array of talents and perspectives that equal employment and diversity can offer our institution. As an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer, UCHealth is committed to making all employment decisions based on valid requirements. No applicant shall be discriminated against in any terms, conditions or privileges of employment or otherwise be discriminated against because of the individual's race, creed, color, religion, gender, national origin or ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, genetic information or veteran status. UCHealth does not discriminate against any "qualified applicant with a disability" as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act and will make reasonable accommodations, when they do not impose an undue hardship on the organization.
          
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