Nurse Surgery

Dignity Health Mercy San Juan Medical Center is a 384-bed not-for-profit Level 2 Trauma Center located in Carmichael California. We have served north Sacramento County as well as south Placer County for over 50 years. Our facility is one of the area's largest medical centers and also one of the most comprehensive. Our staff and volunteers are dedicated to community well-being; providing excellent patient care to all. Mercy San Juan Medical Center is a Comprehensive Stroke Center as well as a Spine Center of Excellence. We are proud recipients of the Perinatal Care Certificate of Excellence and a Certificate of Excellence for Hip and Knee Replacements.

One Community. One Mission. One California

Day Full Time Surgery Registered Nurse

Mercy San Juan Medical Center is a 370-bed trauma Level 2 facility with 10 main operating rooms and 1 cardiac operating room. Our Surgical Services offers a broad range of service lines to include: Cardiac, Orthopedics, Robotics (Gen/GYN/Urol/Thor), General, Gynecology, Gyn-Oncology, Plastics, Thoracics, Spine, Neuro, Vascular, Bariatrics, ENT and Urology. Our OR volume is approximately 650 monthly OR cases, about 16 monthly cardiac cases and a regular increase in spinal procedures. 

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.

• Assessment: Performs patient assessment based on diagnosis, cultural and spiritual beliefs, age functional status, psychosocial needs, and/or developmental stage prior to entering the operating room. Verifies all components of Universal Protocol with patient/caregiver and medical record, to include appropriate marking of site/side by surgeon.
• Care of patient: Plans and implements care based on perioperative assessment, integrating the surgeon and anesthesiologist plans of care prior to transporting patient to operating room. Using critical thinking skills, prioritizes and organizes care within allotted timeframes and evaluates nursing care and provides patient/caregiver with education.
• Clinical/Technical Skills: Utilizes technology, procedures, standards and interventions specific to the operating room, ie all safety issues(policy procedures regarding positioning, prepping, counts and sponge accountability, ESU, and specimen handling etc). Demonstrates ability to assist surgeons with procedures and equipment.
• Documentation: Performs legible, timely, concise and accurate documentation according to policies and procedures. Proficient and competent with the computerized documentation systems (HSM and Cerner). Accurate completion of timecard exception logs, call back slips and missed lunch/break log according to policy. Verifies all required elements of chart and electronic medical record are present prior to taking patient to the OR i.e. H&P, consents, etc.
• Leadership: Accepts responsibility and accountability for own decisions and behaviors. Recognizes, accepts and cooperates with direction from facility leadership. Takes charge as assigned in absence of Manager/Clinical Coordinator.
• Collaborates with care team member to identify approaches for problem solving. Supports and role models teamwork to promote positive relationships/working environment.

Required:

• 1 year experience as Registered Nurse in an operating room or cardiac surgery in an acute care setting.
• Current California RN License.
• Current BLS certificate from the American Heart Association
• Other certifications may be required
• Weekday, Weekend and Holiday rotations
• Call required on nights & weekends with max 30 minute response time