RN Surgery

Where You’ll Work

Mercy Medical Center Redding offers comprehensive health care to nearly 300,000 residents in a six-county region. It is one of only two Level II trauma centers, the only Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and the only Joint Commission-certified Advanced Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center north of Sacramento north of Sacramento. Mercy Medical Center Redding is a 266-bed regional medical center providing inpatient and outpatient services as well as specialized cardiovascular care, stroke care, orthopedics, neurological surgery, comprehensive cancer care, maternity care, and a robust robotic surgery program. In addition, the hospital’s network of care includes Mercy Home Health and Hospice and Dignity Health Connected Living. 

One Community. One Mission. One California 

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery.Every day you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.To be successful in this role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.

• Utilizes the nursing process for the planning and delivery of direct and indirect patient care
• Multi-tasks, organizes, and prioritizes patient care utilizing an efficient, concise and goal outcome process
• Performs case preparation and intra-operative case execution for department needs
• Anticipates preparation of cases and needs to enhance the efficiency of the team effort, i.e. punctual case start times, accurate and timely preparation of cases (instruments, supplies and equipment) and eliminates predictable case delays
• Performs documentation on unit and patient records that is timely, accurate and concise
• Initiates and investigates needed repairs, missing equipment, supplies and other pertinent areas and follows through to ensure resolution

Job Requirements

Required:

• Associates Other Nursing and One year OR and/or CSOR experience within the last two years in acute care hospital , upon hire or
• 2 years recent circulating experience in outpatient surgery center. and
• If it can be supported operationally, training may be offered to applicants having 2 years recent acute care experience in Critical Care/ER. and
• Bachelors Of Science Nursing and Scrubbing and circulating experience, upon hire
• Registered Nurse: CA, upon hire and
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire and
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support, upon hire and

Preferred:

• Certified Nurse Operating Room, upon hire and
• Trauma Nurse Core Course, upon hire