Registered Nurse - Neurosurgery Operating Room - RN

Join Mayo Clinic's state-of-the-art operating room in Jacksonville as a Registered Nurse in Neurosurgery. In this role, you will circulate and coordinate the surgical team in all aspects of OR activities, providing optimum perioperative nursing care to patients. You may be asked to scrub as needed and will function as the patient's advocate.

Mayo Clinic's Jacksonville campus includes 34 operating rooms featuring an IMRI OR suite and a dedicated endovascular OR suite, equipped with the best modern equipment and advanced technologies.

If you have no OR experience, Mayo Clinic offers the Periop 101 program to prepare you for this specialty. An upcoming cohort date is tentatively scheduled for early/mid 2027.

Responsibilities

• Circulate and coordinate surgical team activities in the operating room
• Provide optimum perioperative nursing care to patients
• Scrub as needed
• Function as the patient's advocate
• Coordinate nursing care including direct patient care, patient and family education, and transitions of care
• Support professional nursing practice across the continuum of care
• Function within the Mayo Nursing Care Model, including planning, implementing, evaluating, and communicating all phases of nursing care
• Provide leadership through preceptor roles, informal and formal leadership positions, and quality improvement efforts
• Delegate patient care according to skill level, experience, patient acuity, fiscal accountability, and resource availability
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills, mentor and teach others, and may participate on committees or projects

Required Qualifications

• Graduate of a nursing program
• Current RN license by applicable state requirements
• Current BLS certification through American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross, required upon hire and maintained thereafter
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
• Experience working in a team environment
• Computer skills required; prior experience with electronic medical record systems preferred
• Ability to work flexible hours, which may include days, evenings, nights, holidays, and weekends and on-call
• Ability to adapt to unpredictable situations within the work setting
• Demonstrated leadership, effective communication, and excellent critical thinking skills
• Live within a reasonable driving distance to campus to meet 45-minute on-call requirement

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduate of a baccalaureate nursing program
• One year of RN experience in an applicable care setting
• Prior experience with electronic medical record systems

Education Requirements

• All associate degree or diploma registered nurses hired after April 1, 2020, must provide documented evidence of program completion of a baccalaureate degree in nursing from an accredited nursing program within 5 years from the last day of the month of their RN start date.
• All entry-level associate degree registered nurses with an RN start date prior to April 1, 2020, must provide documented evidence of program completion of a baccalaureate degree in nursing as stipulated by the degree requirement program in place at time of hire.

Additional Requirements

• Additional specialty certification or training as required by the work area
• This role is eligible for TN sponsorship. Successful sponsorship will require state licensure and completion of the VisaScreen or equivalent certification.