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OR Registered Nurse - Malvern Surgery Center

Nemours Children's Health Wilmington, DE

Job Description The perioperative registered nurse (RN) is responsible for the delivery of safe, effective, and quality patient-family centered care in the operating room for all patient populations. This primary position at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Surgery Center, Malvern, will include collaboration with Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware and the Nemours Children’s Hospital, Surgery Center, Deptford, to optimize available resources in achieving optimal patient outcomes. This position may require travel to these facilities. Travel is compensated based on organizational policy. This position is expected to maintain all state and federal licensure and clearances for PA, DE, and NJ for periodic rotation to the facilities in Delaware and New Jersey at the discretion of Perioperative Leadership. This includes active registered nurse (RN) licensure in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey, and current Pennsylvania (PA) FBI Fingerprint Report, PA Criminal Background Record, and PA Child Abuse Clearance. This position requires working shifts aligned with the needs of the department and the assigned FTE of the RN. Schedule: full-time, 60 hours biweekly, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 7:00 AM - 5:30 PM. No Weekends, No Holidays, No Call Responsibilities Provides age-specific, culturally competent, and ethical care within legal standards of practice. Assesses patient’s immediate pre-operative, intraoperative, and immediate post-operative status at intervals in compliance with organizational policies/procedures. Develops an individualized perioperative patient plan of care. Protects the patient from injury caused by extraneous objects and chemical, electrical, laser, mechanical, and thermal sources. Performs accounting procedures to protect the patient from unintended retained surgical items in compliance with organizational policies/procedures. Performs interventions necessary to ensure that the patient’s procedure is performed on the correct site, side, and level. Manages patient specimens according to organizational policy and procedures. Communicates the patient status to relevant parties throughout the continuum of care. Provides/administers medications safely and correctly in compliance with organizational policies/procedures. Performs interventions to maintain the patient’s wound and tissue perfusion at or above baseline level. Performs interventions to ensure the patient is at or returned to normothermia at the conclusion of the immediate postoperative period. Performs interventions to protect the patient from surgical site infection. Evaluates patient progress toward attaining outcomes. Qualifications PA RN License upon hire required Apply for DE RN License within 6 months from the date of hire. Apply for NJ RN licensure within 1 year from the date of hire. American Heart Association (AHA) BLS required, American Heart Association (AHA) PALS required, schedule AHA ACLS within 1 year from the date of hire About Us Nemours Children's Health is an internationally recognized pediatric health system serving more than 1.7 million patient encounters each year. We deliver care across six states through two freestanding children’s hospitals — Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida — along with a network of more than 80 primary, urgent, and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospital partnerships. Backed by the Nemours Foundation and Alfred I. duPont Trust, our $1.7B nonprofit system is dedicated to improving children's health through clinical care, research, education, advocacy, and prevention. Our Whole Child Health approach focuses equally on prevention and treatment, partnering with communities to help every child thrive. Inclusion and belonging guide our strategy and growth. We are committed to culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and fostering an environment where every associate, patient, and family feels supported and valued. Learn more at Nemours.org .