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Cardiovascular Operating Room

$10,000 Sign-On Bonus 

Clements University Hospital

Why UT Southwestern?

With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. As a world-renowned medical and research center, we strive to provide the best possible care, resources, and benefits for our valued employees. Ranked as the #1 hospital in Dallas-Fort Worth for the eighth consecutive year, we invite you to continue your healthcare career with us at William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital. You’ll discover a culture of teamwork, professionalism, and consistent opportunities for learning and advancement into leadership roles

Job Summary

Join the UT Southwestern team as a Registered Nurse in our Cardiovascular Operating Room (CVOR)! As part of our Magnet-designated nursing team, you will have the chance to work with world-renowned surgeons performing unique and life-changing cardiovascular surgeries. Our state-of-the-art hospital has 59 operating rooms suites allowing us to provide outstanding patient care while coordinating with our surgical team for all operating room needs. We are looking for nurses with cardiac experience who have helped in the OR on major open heart surgery and heart transplants cases.

Our Operating Room Nurses assist in using cutting edge technology in the CVOR to help us merge together our mission to educate, discover, and heal. At UT Southwestern, the possibilities to explore your interests and advance your nursing career are limitless. We would love the opportunity to have you join the UT Southwestern CVOR nursing team!

This position works under general supervision of physician, mid-level provider and/or nursing supervisor to provide nursing services in care and treatment of patients.
 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Job Duties

1. Assesses and documents physiological, psychological sociocultural and spiritual health status of patient on admission utilizing age- age specific concerns for children, adolescents, adults, and older adults. Performs ongoing assessment of patient’s physiological health status during intraoaperative phase. Communicates relevant health status data to other team members and departments.
2. Interprets health status data to anticipate patient’s family, and physician’s needs and expectations. Develops appropriate plan of care for patient. Utilizes critical thinking skills in planning and prioritizing intraoperative nursing care.
3. Identifies and implements appropriate intraoperative nursing interventions based on health status data. Completes accurate and timely documentation of these interventions. Confers with all members of health care team in collaborative fashion, sharing information and observations of patient and/or patient’s family in manner that contributes to optimal patient care.
4. Evaluates implemented interventions and modifies care according to evaluation. Documents interventions and modifications to plan of care in accurate and timely manner. Prioritizes intraoperative nursing interventions per patient’s health status data, physician, and planned procedures as applicable.
5. Adheres to appropriate hospital policies, procedures, and standards of nursing practice while delivering intraoperative nursing care.
6. Provides appropriate and timely patient education to patient and/or patient’s family. Completes accurate and timely documentation of education provided. Demonstrates effective communication with children, adolescents, adults, and older adults.
7. Supervises, directs, and coordinates patient care assignments of other members of healthcare team. Delegates duties within legal parameters.
8. Prepares for procedures as appropriate by obtaining supplies and equipment in timely manner.
9. Serves as technical subject matter person, resource person, and/or preceptor to nursing staff. Completes written clinical performance evaluation form in timely manner.
10. Handles and operates instruments, supplies, and equipment and performs safe nursing care in manner that is cost effective without compromising quality of care.
11. Solves minor problem issues of counts and errors, patient care, relationships, equipment, supplies, and environment prior to management intervention. Provides and supports efforts to develop and maintain team environment.
12. Performs other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education
Graduate of NLN approved nursing program. CNOR & BSN preferred, not required.

Experience

• One year or greater Perioperative RN experience. 
• Taking call required.
• Scrub experience preferred.
• Cardiac OR experience preferred.

Licenses and Certifications
(NLC) NURSING LICENSURE COMPACT-BNE or Current Texas license or
(BLS) BASIC LIFE SUPPORT course accredited by the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross (ARC).

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Able to operate basic/standard pieces of OR equipment.
• Able to serve as a professional and technical subject matter person in 4-5 surgical specialties. Able to circulate as needed in all surgical specialties unless specialty call required (open heart, transplants, neuro). Call may be required (general, open heart/transplant, or neuro).
• Work requires ability to complete most assignments with substantial independence.
• Work requires ability to maintain current customer service, nursing, and technical skills by attending training programs and seminars to continue level of competency and ensure compliance with departmental policies and procedures.
• Work requires ability to read, write, and perform mathematical calculations.
• Work requires constant walking, standing, bending, turning, and stooping. Pushing and pulling heavy objects such as patient beds. Must be able to help lift and turn patients.
• Work requires frequent contact with physicians, residents, fellows, allied health personnel, and other medical and/or non-medical office support personnel to coordinate necessary information to provide optimal level of patient care.
• Work requires good verbal and written communication skills. Must be able to read, write and communicate in English
• Work requires proficiency in the use of computer technology.
• Work requires telephone contact with patients, referring physicians, and pharmaceutical representatives outside of UT Southwestern, vendors, and third party payees.
• Work requires use of considerable judgment in application of procedures, nursing assessment techniques, practices and policies to work problems, organization, and administration of hospital activities.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORKING CONDITIONS

• Physical Demands
  Bending/Leaning Over
  Lifting
  Pulling
  Pushing
  Standing
  Stooping
  Talking
  Walking

• Working Conditions
  Hospital Setting

PACT STATEMENT

The following is the acronym, “PACT”, and is fundamental to all clinical positions at UT Southwestern Medical Center:

• P-Problem Solving: To achieve excellence in patient care and service, all employees are expected to take ownership in solving problems effectively, efficiently and to the satisfaction of the patient.
• A-Ability, Attitude and Appearance: In keeping with a professional healthcare environment, all employees are expected to have the ability to perform their jobs and to appear and conduct themselves in a professional and positive manner.
• C-Communications and Compassion: It is our goal that all our communications are clear, courteous, timely, and delivered with compassion, respect and appropriate confidentiality.
• T-Teamwork: In our medical environment, our patients regard every employee they encounter as a member of the Southwestern Medical Center team. Our goal is to individually work hard to contribute to our team, support our co-workers, and to achieve not only excellent patient care and service, but also a satisfying, caring environment for each other.

Security
This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code 51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information.
 

EEO Statement

UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community. As an equal opportunity employer, UT Southwestern prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or veteran status.