Registered Nurse / RN Surgery

Join our team as a full-time, variable shift, Surgery Registered Nurse in Tyler, TX.

Fulfilling your purpose begins here:

People First, Always. Here's how we take care of our people:

• Competitive salaries, support teams and growth opportunities.

Your team is bigger than your department:

• UT Health Tyler, the flagship hospital of the system, has 502 licensed beds specializing in advanced acute care medicine. Our hospital includes a 24-hour ER with Level 1 trauma center, a comprehensive stroke center, more than 500 physicians and a full complement of subspecialty groups.
• We believe healthcare is a team sport and every player has something to contribute. We show compassion, celebrate differences and treat one another with respect.

The Registered Nurse (RN) is a professional caregiver who uses the nursing process to provide and direct patient care for a group of patients for a designated time frame before and during a surgical

procedure.

• Consistently demonstrates competence, compliance and accurate documentation during care delivery in accordance with the Nurse Practice Act, Standards of Practice, and Hospital & Departmental Policies and Procedures.

• Routinely cares for patients' and families' needs and/or performs department specific activities with excellent organizational skill, efficiency and appropriate fiscal accountability.

• Provides excellent customer service, teamwork and communication using the SBAR communication principals during all interactions of job role.

• Continuously synthesizes and evaluates assessment data to gain a comprehensive clinical picture and effectively uses supervisory skills and nursing process to independently and collaboratively anticipate, intervene and deliver excellent patient care.

• Actively contributes to clean, safe, positive and professional work and patient care environment.

• Actively participates in professional development, professional organizations, unit counsels, quality improvement initiatives promoting personal and institutional growth and improvements.

• Able to perform in the circulating and/or scrub role for a variety of routine and complex procedures with confidence and competence, as well as collaborating with the rest of the OR team.

• Utilizes equipment and instruments with standard operating procedures to facilitate expected outcomes for patients.

• Act as resource and role model for staff and students.

• Other duties as appropriately assigned within scope of practice.

Job Requirements:

• ADN required
• Must maintain current Texas RN License
• BLS Required

Preferred Job Requirements:

• ACLS preferred
• Recent surgery experience preferred