Please apply to this posting if you have at least one year of professional experience as a nurse in the Operating Room. Service lines include : Cardiac Vascular Thoracic Abdominal Transplant Northwestern Memorial Hospital has 60+ operating rooms. Our CVT Operating Room teams operate in the Feinberg Pavilion. Feinberg Pavilion – Main operating room pavilion, open 24/7 for scheduled and urgent/emergent cases Prentice Women’s Hospital – Focusing on women’s health: gyne, breast, plastics, and robotics Lavin Family Pavilion – Outpatient procedures, including ophthalmology, ENT, general surgery, plastics, orthopedics, spine Northwestern Medicine is a Level I trauma center. OR Scheduling and Call Requirements: CVT team members will rotate call requirements onto the weekend and be required to cover holiday shifts. You will be required to take call with a 30-minute response time. CVT call teams have two members on-call every day to support and respond to CVT emergencies and add-on cases, with a minimum call requirement of 100-120 hours in a six-week period. Professional Growth: Tuition reimbursement and reimbursable professional development available. CNOR Certification is an expectation after two years of OR experience. Certification reimbursed by NMH through professional development funds. Professional funds: $1,000 FT/$500 PT per fiscal year. The Surgical Services Clinical Nurse reflects the mission, vision, and values of NM, adheres to the organization’s Code of Ethics and Corporate Compliance Program, and complies with all relevant policies, procedures, guidelines and all other regulatory and accreditation standards. The role of the professional clinical nurse is unique and essential to the care of the patient. The nurse demonstrates that unique and essential function through the framework for nursing practice. Advocate: Practices in accordance with the patient-centered care model. Develops an individualized age-specific culturally sensitive nursing plan of care for the patient that is based on the nursing process. Incorporates the role of patient advocate into the plan of care. Uses a team approach to develop and achieve daily patient-centered individualized care goals. Acknowledges and values the contributions of the patient's significant others as an integral part of the plan of care. Identifies potential conflict situations and facilitates resolution using established communication channels. Promotes and strives to protect the health, safety and rights of the patient. Protects patients by maintaining a safe environment. Participate in research-related activities which includes evidence-based practice and quality improvement initiatives. Practices safe surgery-specific post-operative care to include assessment, potential complications and discharge teaching. Identifies potential pre-anesthetic surgical risk factors. Clinical Expert: Advances clinical expertise, as demonstrated through pursuit of informal and formal continuing education opportunities and obtaining specialty certification when eligible. Continuously enhances skills and abilities to ensure the highest quality patient care. Shares knowledge and expertise through educating team members, patients and students. Demonstrates critical thinking by integrating theoretical knowledge and expertise to pose relevant clinical questions when evidence and practice differ. Identifies priorities, sets realistic and measurable goals, prescribes and implements nursing interventions in a safe and timely manner. Develops and implements individualized education plans for patients and families using suitable instructional materials and methods Evaluates and documents the patient's responses to nursing interventions in the health record and properly individualizes the plan of care based on the evaluation of findings. Identifies situations that require further intervention and escalates appropriately; consults appropriate experts and resources when needed. Participates in the formation, implementation and evaluation of team goals. Appropriately delegates and supervises. interventions to implement the plan of care. Conveys complete, timely and accurate information at hand-off at the bedside or any hand-off. Adheres to ethical standards of practice. Possess the knowledge to intervene in the event of a complication or undesired outcome. Community Volunteer: Participates in one or more volunteer initiatives annually, Northwestern Memorial organized or on his/her own. Compassionate: Consistently demonstrates interpersonal connections with patients and families from introduction through discharge. Proactively responds to patient concerns such as speaking to patients about possible/expected delays in plan of care. Treats patients, families, visitors and staff in a caring manner with respect and dignity. Facilities recovery and where appropriate helps ensure a peaceful death for patients. Professionally Engaged: Is a member of a professional organization or participates on an