RN - CTOR/ Baptist Hospital / FT Days

RN - CTOR/ Baptist Hospital / FT Days

Saint Thomas Hospital provides adult specialty healthcare to the more than two million residents of Middle Tennessee, Southwestern Kentucky and Northern Alabama. Saint Thomas Health's regional health system consists of five hospitals - Baptist and Saint Thomas Hospitals and The Hospital for Spinal Surgery in Nashville, Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Murfreesboro and Hickman Community Hospital in Centerville – and a comprehensive network of affiliated joint ventures in diagnostics, cardiac services and ambulatory surgery as well as medical practices, clinics and rehabilitation facilities. Saint Thomas Health is a member of Ascension Health, a Catholic organization that is the largest not-for-profit health system in the United States 

 Summary:

The RN - CTOR delivers professional nursing care in the operative setting to patients undergoing surgical or other invasive procedures.

 

Responsibilities:

• Performs scrub functions including the selection and handling of instruments and supplies used during procedure.
• Performs circulating functions including monitoring, recording and communicating patient condition and managing overall nursing care of patient before, during and after procedure.|
• Directly assists operating physician with surgical tasks including hemostasis, suturing and wound exposure as well as patient positioning.
• Prepares operating rooms and surgical instruments and equipment for use.

Education & Experience:

• Graduate from an accredited school of professional nursing.
• Clinical nursing experience within the past 5 years preferred.

• Current Basic Life Support certifiation is required   

• Current Tennessee or Kentucky licensure or Compact State license as an RN required.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Saint Thomas Health is an equal opportunity employer.