Staff Nurse- RN- Operating Room

Company: AMITA HEALTH
Location: Kankakee
Posted on: October 14, 2021

Job Description:

We Are Hiring:

Full-Time Operating Room RN

Days with weekly, weekend, and holiday call responsibilities (30min call-back)

7:00am - 3:30pm

Looking for a resilient, energetic, compassionate and team-oriented Staff Nurse for our Operatign Room at St. Mary’s. AMITA Health St. Mary's Hospital is an acute care facility with a Level II Emergency/Trauma Center serving Kankakee and surrounding counties. We provide compassionate care, state-of-the-art technology and award winning patient safety to the community. AMITA Health St. Mary’s Hospital is a Certified Primary Stroke Center. New robotics program, orthopedic joint commission accreditation, orthopedic robotics, and orthopedic spine program. 

If you are passionate about helping and making a change, join our dedicated team and apply now!

We offer competitive benefits along with a $10K Sign-on Bonus for those qualified candidates with 1(+) year of experience. Current associates are not eligible.

Deliver professional nursing care in the operative setting to patients undergoing surgical or other invasive procedures.

• Perform scrub functions including the selection and handling of instruments and supplies used during procedure.
• Perform circulating functions including monitoring, recording, and communicating patient condition and managing overall nursing care of patient before, during, and after procedure.
• Directly assist operating physician with surgical tasks including hemostasis, suturing, and wound exposure as well as patient positioning.
• Prepare operating rooms and surgical instruments and equipment for use.

Licensure / Certification / Registration:

• BLS Provider credentialed from the American Heart Association (AHA) obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date required.
• Registered Nurse credentialed from the Illinois Board of Nursing obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date required.

Education:

• Diploma from an accredited school/college of nursing required.

• Experience preferred.
• ACLS
• Call requirement, 30min call-back. 

AMITA Health, one of the largest health systems in Illinois, is comprised of 19 hospitals and more than 230 sites of care. With more than 900 providers in its medical groups, 26,000 associates and 7,000 physician partners, AMITA Health serves over 6.6 million residents in the greater Chicagoland area.

We are committed to improving accessibility to healthcare in the communities we serve. We hold ourselves accountable to our patients and one another, and we work hard to treat the whole person, body, mind and spirit. Our compassionate, talented team members are the source of our strength, and we invest heavily in their well-being. We offer significant professional opportunities, career advancement potential, comprehensive training and competitive wages.

AMITA Health will provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all associates and applicants for employment regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identification or expression, age, disability, marital status, amnesty, genetic information, carrier status or any other legally protected status or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

For further information regarding your EEO rights, click on the following link to the “EEO is the Law” poster:

http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf

EEO is the Law Poster Supplement

Please note that AMITA Health will make an offer of employment only to individuals who have applied for a position using our official application. Be on alert for possible fraudulent offers of employment. AMITA Health will not solicit money or banking information from applicants.

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