Registered Nurse, Operating Room

Are you eager to enhance your surgical expertise? As a Registered Nurse, Operating Room at Mount Sinai Hospital, you will cultivate specialized technical proficiencies in surgical procedures, instrumentation, and equipment within our newly renovated facility.

Is this you?

You thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment where you can directly contribute to patient care during surgical procedures. This environment provides you an opportunity to work closely with renowned surgeons and other members of this intraprofessional and interdisciplinary team to ensure the best possible outcomes for patients.

If gaining experience with advanced surgical technologies like the GTX OR, DaVinci Robot, and Velys Robot is a key factor in your career development, Mount Sinai offers an unparalleled opportunity. These technologies are utilized in a variety of specialties, including Gynecology, General Surgery, Urology, ENT, and robotic-assisted knee surgery.

About this team:

|More than 16,000 patients undergo surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital every year. We are experts in and globally recognized for our specialized Cancer, Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Orthopedic Surgery programs. Specialties utilizing the Main Operating Room/Cysto are General Surgery, Urology, Gynaecology, Otolaryngology, Lasers, Ophthalmology, Oral Surgery and Orthopaedics - both Reconstructive and Sarcoma. The Main Operating Room has 3 state-of-the-art Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) suites.

This team has sponsorship opportunities available for nurses interested in obtaining OR certification. A unique staff recognition and appreciation program F.R.O.G. (Forever Recognize Others Greatness) enhances team dynamics, while a Pet Board and Tree of Kindness encourages staff to celebrate each other.

In this role you will:

• Perform scrubbing and circulating duties
• Provide direct nursing care to patients within the OR
• Work in collaboration with the interdisciplinary health care team
• Facilitate the clinical needs of the surgeons’ and anesthesia in the OR
• Effectively manage a workload within a fast-paced environment
• Anticipate, recognize and address rapidly changing situations
• Document observations, assessments and care provision
• Collect information from a variety of sources using skills of observation, communication and physical assessment to enable the provision of appropriate nursing care
• Maintain clinical competence and knowledge base through continued education and life-long learning
• Perform other duties consistent with the job classification as assigned and/or requested

Job Requirements:

Mandatory

• Current certificate of registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO)
• Graduate of a CNO-approved bachelor’s degree in nursing program, or equivalent combined education and experience
• Current Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) certification
• Successful completion of a post graduate Perioperative Nursing Certificate program

Preferred

• 3 years’ experience in a Perioperative setting
• A baccalaureate degree from a CNO-approved nursing program

Skills and Knowledge

• Commitment to professional practice and personal development
• Commitment to shared leadership and team based decision making
• Demonstrated excellent critical thinking, decision making and problem solving skills
• Superior interpersonal and communication skills
• Commitment to patient and family centred care
• Demonstrated satisfactory work performance and attendance history