Operating Room Nurse, Comer OR – Full-Time, Nights

Join UChicago Medicine's world-class academic healthcare system as an Operating Room Nurse in the Comer Operating Room at our Hyde Park campus. This full-time, onsite position offers the opportunity to provide individualized, goal-directed nursing care in a dynamic surgical environment while collaborating with physicians and interdisciplinary teams to support safe, high-quality patient care throughout the surgical experience.

Responsibilities

• Assess patient needs and provide patient- and family-centered care
• Plan and implement nursing interventions based on the scheduled procedure, patient assessment, and developmental needs
• Perform nursing treatments and procedures according to hospital policy and specialty practice standards
• Prepare and administer medications and treatments safely according to physician orders
• Evaluate patient responses, adjust nursing interventions as appropriate, and document care accurately
• Communicate and collaborate with physicians and interdisciplinary team members
• Provide patient and family education that supports recovery and transitions of care
• Maintain required unit and hospital competencies and participate in continuing education
• Follow patient-safety, infection-prevention, and quality standards
• Participate in unit meetings, quality-improvement activities, and orientation of new staff
• Assume charge nurse or preceptor responsibilities as assigned
• Perform other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
• Associate Degree in Nursing
• Current Illinois Registered Nurse license
• Current CPR certification

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing
• Trauma nursing background
• One or more years of surgical scrub experience

Schedule

• Full-time, 0.9 FTE
• 36 hours per week
• 12-hour shifts
• Nights, 7:00 p.m.–7:00 a.m.
• Every third weekend required