Registered Nurse Trainee - Operating Room - Day/Evening

Registered Nurse Trainee - Surgical Services - Full time

Registered Nurse with operating room experience or completion of Operating Room RN Trainee Program.  WellSpan's Intraprocedural Skills Execution (WISE) program provides formal learning opportunities to all perioperative Novice Nurse hires at WellSpan. Per AORN a Novice Perioperative RN is “any registered nurse who has not worked in the perioperative environment before, including a new graduate, an experienced nurse from another area of nursing, or a nurse with previous perioperative experience who has not maintained basic competency” (AORN, 2022). The program’s goal is to assist in decreasing the theory-practice gap by providing foundational learning, increasing confidence, knowledge, and competence; while improving professional interdisciplinary communication; and nurse retention rates in the perioperative environment at WellSpan.  

Registered Nurse - Surgical Services

• 11 OR Suites including Cystoscopy and Obstetrics Suites.
• The schedule is based on opening seven to eight operating rooms Monday – Friday from 7am – 3:30pm or 7am – 5:30 pm.  Run 8 rooms per day until 3:30 and go down to 5 rooms per day at 3:30-7:30.
• Minimal staffing for each OR is one RN and one or two scrub persons, either RNs, CSFAs, Surg Techs and LPNs also scrub.
• Call: Seven days a week: on RN and two Surgical Technicians, 3:30pm – 7am. Saturday: one RN and two Surgical Technicians, 3:30pm – 7am (work 0700-1530 or 0700-1930) Then there is call to follow that shift. One RN and on Surgical Technician on call from 7am – 7am, second call.
• Unit provides a wide variety of surgical specialties including orthopedics, general, vascular, neurosurgery, ENT, plastics, OB/GYN, urology and Robotics. The unit is also responsible for urgent/emergent cases and cesarean sections 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
• RN orientation includes a comprehensive Relias program.
• Advanced robotic surgery (Da Vinci Xi ) 
• Full time (average 80 hours biweekly)
• Shift: 8-hour day/evening
• Weekends as needed
• Eligible for weekend differential

The Registered Nurse is responsible and accountable for implementing, directing and coordinating the care of patients through the use of the nursing process: assessment, planning implementation and evaluation.  Included is recognition and treatment of the physical and psychosocial changes unique to the age/population group served on the specific unit.