Operating Room (OR) RN - Baptist Health Brookwood Hospital

Position Summary

Join Our Team of Expert OR RNs at Baptist Health!

Baptist Health is seeking skilled and compassionate Operating Room Registered Nurses to join our high-performing surgical team. In this fast-paced, high-acuity environment, you'll deliver expert care to patients undergoing complex surgical procedures. You’ll work with a low patient-to-nurse ratio alongside a skilled, supportive team.

We’re looking for RNs with strong clinical skills, perioperative or critical care experience, and the ability to thrive under pressure.

Ready to make an impact in the OR? Become a part of Baptist Health and take the next step in your nursing career.

With five hospital locations and a variety of flexible schedules, Baptist Health offers opportunities that fit your lifestyle and career goals. We take the time to personally match you with the facility and team that align with your experience, values, and aspirations.

Enjoy comprehensive benefits starting on day one, designed to support you at every stage of life, including:

• Student loan repayment
• Tuition reimbursement
• Family care support, including backup elder care, backup childcare, and pet care
• And more! Learn about the benefits we offer here

Baptist Health is a not-for-profit, faith-based health system with 1,700 beds across five hospitals, multiple outpatient centers, and physician offices. It operates Alabama’s largest primary care network, with 70 clinics spanning four counties. Supported by a team of 2,600 employed and affiliated physicians and over 7,000 team members, Baptist Health is committed to delivering high-quality, compassionate care to the communities it serves.

A New Day in HealthcareBaptist Health is now part of Orlando Health, marking an exciting new chapter in delivering exceptional care to our communities. Orlando Health is a private, not-for-profit healthcare organization with a century-long legacy of providing expert, compassionate care to diverse populations. With physicians in more than 100 specialties, award-winning hospitals, standalone emergency departments, urgent care centers, and more, Orlando Health draws patients from across the state, region, and nation.

Together, we’re building a stronger, more connected future in healthcare—right here at home.

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Responsibilities

Responsibilities for Operating Room RNs Include, But Not Limited To:

• Demonstrates advanced knowledge, skills, and judgment in caring for patients needing complex assessments, intensive interventions, and continuous high-level nursing vigilance
• Effectively uses data to anticipate, adapt to, and confidently respond to rapidly changing patient conditions.
• Quickly identifies and prioritizes information to take decisive, evidence-based, patient-centered action.
• Monitors and adjusts specialized equipment, interpreting and recording data from devices regarding intracranial pressures, central venous pressures, pulmonary artery pressures, and cardiac rhythms from cardiac monitors, respirators, ventilators, oxygen pumps, etc.
• Responds to life-saving situations based on nursing standards and protocol.
• Coordinates the care and delegates as appropriate to other team members on a defined group of patients.
• Documents patient care in a knowledgeable, skillful, and consistent manner meeting all required and regulatory standards. This includes but is not limited to patient assessment, education, medication administration, treatments, and patient safety.
• Demonstrates competency in nursing skills and use of unit-specific patient care equipment.
• Prioritizes patient care continuously, following Evidence-Based Practice Standards.
• Effectively identifies and resolves problems.
• Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies, the ADA, FMLA, and other federal, state, and local standards.

Qualifications

Education/Training

• Graduate of an approved school of nursing.
• Meets all mandatory, developmental, and performance competency requirements for Baptist Health/Orlando Health and unit/department.

Licensure/Certification

• Maintains current State of Alabama RN license or valid eNLC multistate RN license
• Maintains current BLS/Healthcare Provider certification.
• ACLS, NRP, PALS, TNCC are required for certain areas.
• NRP required for Neonatal Intensive care Unit (NICU).

Experience

• 1 year experience required unless approved by AVP level or above.