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Job Description

Great New Rates Nemours is seeking a Registered Nurse- CVOR to join our team in Wilmington, DE.

NEW SHIFT DIFFERENTIAL INCENTIVE!!

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, Delaware

This position requires active registered nurse (RN) licensure in Delaware and may require Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.

This position requires working shifts aligned with the needs of the department and the assigned FTE of the RN. This position also includes on-call and holiday requirements based on the needs of the department.

Position 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.

Position Requirements

  • Minimum of one year experience
  • ASN required, BSN within 3 years from the date of hire
  • DE RN License
  • PA RN License within 6 months from the date of hire
  • NJ RN licensure within 1 year from the date of hire
  • PA Clearances: FBI Fingerprint Report, PA Criminal Background Record, & PA Child Abuse Clearance
  • American Heart Association BLS required upon hire
  • American Heart Association PALS within 6 months from the date of hire
  • American Heart Association ACLS within 1 year from the date of hire
  • CNOR; CPN preferred

About Us

Nemours Children’s Health is an internationally recognized children’s health system. With more than 1.7 million patient encounters annually, we provide medical care in five states through two freestanding state-of-the-art children’s hospitals — Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida. Our pediatric network includes 80 primary-urgent-and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospitalists serving 19 affiliated hospitals. We generate annual revenues of more than $1.7 billion derived from patient services, contributions from the Alfred I. DuPont Trust, as well as other income.

As one of the nation's premier pediatric health systems, we’re on a journey to discover better ways of approaching children’s health. Putting as much focus on prevention as cures and working hand in hand with the community to make every child’s world a place to thrive. It’s a journey that extends beyond our nationally recognized clinical treatment to an entire integrated spectrum of research, advocacy, education, and prevention, leading to the healthiest generations of children ever.

Inclusion and belonging guide our growth and strategy. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about, and committed to, leading efforts to provide culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and helping build an inclusive and supportive environment. All of our associates are expected to ensure that these philosophies are embedded in their day-to-day work with colleagues, patients and families.

To learn more about Nemours Children’s and how we go well beyond medicine, visit us at www.nemours.org .

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