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RN Operating Room

CommonSpirit Health, Lexington, KY, United States


Job Summary and Responsibilities
This position is eligible for up to a $25,000 sign‑on bonus AND up to $24,000 Student Loan Assistance.

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.

Responsibilities

Maintain a safe surgical environment, which includes sterile technique

Assisting anesthesia and/or the surgeon before, during or after cases

Preparing the operating room (equipment setup)

Preparing lab specimens

Ensuring instruments, implants, supplies are ready based on the type of surgery

Be able to circulate and/or scrub a case based on the day's assignment

Provide conscious sedation to endoscopy patients

Continuously and systematically assess the health‑care status of the patient, prioritizing and reprioritizing patient care based on assessment

Initiates and maintains an individual plan of care to meet identified patient problems or needs, based on analysis of assessment data, standards of nursing care and practice

Collaborates with patient, primary care providers, family, internal and community resources to coordinate patient discharge/transfer needs

Prioritizes, performs and delegates direct and/or indirect patient interventions necessary for the stabilization of the trauma patient

Prioritizes and performs patient interventions necessary for triaging patients

Participates in patient and family teaching

Job Requirements
Required

Registered Nurse: KY, upon hire

Basic Life Support – CPR, upon hire

Advanced Cardiac Life Support, within 90 days

Pediatric Advanced Life Support, within 90 days

Where You'll Work
Welcome to Saint Joseph Hospital, a 433‑bed hospital founded in 1877 by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth as the first hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. Led by Sister Euphrasia Stafford, the mission to provide compassionate care to the underserved is still carried out today. Saint Joseph Hospital holds over two dozen national ranks and recognitions and is recognized as a 2024 Best Place to Work in Kentucky.

Saint Joseph is part of CommonSpirit Health, a non‑profit, Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people. With approximately 175,000 team members and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians, our commitment to serve the common good is delivered through the dedicated work of thousands of physicians, advanced practice clinicians, nurses, and staff; through clinical excellence delivered across a system of 140 hospitals and more than 2,200 care centers serving 24 states.

Pay Range
$30.00 - $43.50 /hour

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