RN Surgery

For more than 70 years, Mercy Medical Center Redding has offered comprehensive health care in the North State, providing acute care and a full range of medical services. The 267-bed hospital offers major medical services including a Level II Trauma Center as well as specialized Cardiovascular Care, Stroke Care, Orthopedics, Neurological Surgery, Comprehensive Cancer Care, Maternity Care, and da Vinci Robotic Surgery. It is the sole provider of obstetrical services, along with the only Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Shasta County. In addition, the hospital’s network of care includes Mercy Home Health and Hospice and Dignity Health Connected Living. Mercy Medical Center Redding is a member of the Dignity Health system and is a sister facility to St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff and Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta. As one of the area’s largest not-for-profit employers, we are proud to give back to the community by providing many programs and services to benefit overall health. Visit here to learn more. 

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Position Summary:

The incumbent is a professional caregiver who assumes responsibility and accountability for a patient assignment through therapeutic use of self, the nursing process, and other health care team members. The incumbent, as a member of the health care team appropriately assists team members in providing holistic care to patients and their support systems with an awareness of cost containment and time management.

#RN@DH

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

Minimum Qualifications:

• 1 year Operating Room and/or CSOR experience within the last two years in acute care hospital OR
  2 years recent circulating experience in outpatient surgery center.
• Associate's in Nursing degree from an accredited school of nursing
• Current California RN license
• Current ACLS and BLS certifications required (must be certified through the American Heart Association)
  
  NOTE:  If it can be supported operationally, training may be offered to applicants having 2 years of recent acute care experience in a Critical Care or Emergency Room.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's of Science in Nursing degree from an accredited school of nursing preferred
• Scrubbing and circulating experience
• C.N.O.R. and T.N.C.C. certifications