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Registered Nurse, RN - Operating Room, OR
Join a Leading Academic Operating Room Team
At Tufts Medical Center, our Operating Room nurses support a broad range of highly specialized surgical services including transplant, trauma, robotics, vascular, orthopedic, thoracic, ENT, neurosurgery, and cardiovascular surgery. OR Registered Nurses are integral members of the perioperative team, collaborating closely with surgeons, anesthesia providers, surgical technologists, residents, fellows, and perioperative staff in a fast-paced academic medical center environment.
Our Operating Room nurses care for highly acute and complex patient populations while supporting innovative surgical procedures across multiple specialties. Nurses are empowered to practice autonomously while utilizing advanced clinical judgment, communication, and critical thinking skills to deliver safe, seamless, and exceptional patient care throughout the surgical experience.
Grow Your Career in a High-Acuity Surgical Environment
The Operating Room at Tufts Medical Center offers ongoing opportunities for professional growth, skill development, and continued learning within one of New England's leading academic medical centers. Staff are supported through comprehensive onboarding, mentorship, specialty training, certification support, continuing education, and participation in process improvement initiatives designed to help nurses build confidence and advance their careers in perioperative nursing.
What truly differentiates our OR culture is the collaboration, teamwork, and commitment to continuous learning that allows nurses to thrive in a supportive and clinically advanced environment. Team members are encouraged to share ideas, grow professionally, and contribute to outstanding patient outcomes.
Hours: Per Diem
Job Profile Summary
This role focuses on providing professional and nonprofessional nursing care services in accordance with physician orders. In addition, this role focuses on performing the following Clinical Nurse duties: Assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates the care needs of a designated group of patients or provides nursing care and identified clinical support tasks within the scope of practice for achievement of the patient's plan of care as directed. Provides professional nursing care to patients. Requires a nursing license. A professional individual contributor role that may direct the work of other lower level professionals or manage processes and programs. The majority of time is spent overseeing the design, implementation or delivery of processes, programs and policies using specialized knowledge and skills typically acquired through advanced education. A senior level role that requires advanced knowledge of job area typically obtained through advanced education and work experience. Typically responsible for: managing projects / processes, working independently with limited supervision, coaching and reviewing the work of lower level professionals, resolving difficult and sometimes complex problems.
Job Overview
The professional registered nurse possesses and applies the skills and knowledge necessary for the delivery and management of patient care from admission through discharge. The professional registered nurse is knowledgeable of current trends in healthcare including but not limited to advances in technology, pharmacology, treatment care modalities, quality and patient safety. The professional registered nurse serves as a patient and family advocate while facilitating a cooperative and collaborative environment among all health care providers. The professional registered nurse is responsible for the planning, delivery and management of patient/family centered care utilizing the nursing process and adhering to the standards of nursing practice embedded in research, evidence based practice and/or best practices. The professional registered nurse at Tufts Medical Center provides clinical excellence, which fosters and supports an environment central to our patient and family centered model of care.
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