RN Operating Room Residency Program - Oct 2024

Job Ref

2404923

Category

Nursing

Job Family

Registered Nurse

Department

Surgery

Schedule

N/A

Facility

Community Heart & Vascular Hospital

8075 N Shadeland Ave

Indianapolis, IN 46250

United States

Shift

N/A

Hours

8, 10 or 12 hour shifts

Registered Nurse Operating Room Residency Program - START DATE: Oct 2024

Covering several locations throughout the network from Greenwood to East, Heart and Vascular and Howard

About the program

• The program is a full-time, paid, six-month long orientation into the operating room (OR) that will focus on both theory and skill; with supportive instructions, demonstrations and clinical experience necessary to actively scrub and circulate on a variety of surgical procedures

• Monday-Friday, Variable day hours during the six-month long orientation, primarily working 5 8 hour days/week. 40-hour per week commitment. (No scheduled time off will be granted during the orientation due to the intensity of the program.)

• The program offers integrated learning experiences of classroom instruction, followed by hands-on clinical rotations in the OR department where the candidate is hired. Participants are exposed to both the circulating and the scrub roles, under the direction of experienced and skilled on-site preceptors

• The program will utilize Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses (AORN) Peri-op 101 curriculum

• Selected applicants will be hired to work at their respective locations

Classroom

• Classroom lectures include - but are not limited to - aseptic technique, prepping, gowning, gloving, instrument names, suture selection, laparoscopic procedures and draping

• Candidates will attend core circulating and scrub classes throughout the six-month program.

• Lectures specific to each surgical department will occur at each respective hospital location

Clinical Experience

• Circulating rotation for 11 weeks at the site where the candidate has been hired

• Scrub rotation for 10 weeks at the site where the candidate has been hired

Requirements

• Graduate of NLN, ACEN or CCNE accredited school of nursing, or three years related professional nursing experience.

• Must have a current and valid license as a Registered Nurse to practice in the state of Indiana as listed in the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) OR if a new RN graduate, will have 45 days to sit for their NCLEX exam upon hire.

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