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Posted: 15-Jun-25
Location: Sacramento, California
Type: Full-time
Internal Number: 6301462
Operating Room RN (CLIN NURSE 2)
Job Summary
The CN identifies and implements nursing interventions and evaluates results for a wide variety of patient populations, directs and acts as resource to other members of the nursing team as assigned and promotes compliance and support for policies. The primary responsibilities for this position consist of providing total, comprehensive, continuous and patient centered care which includes: assessing, documenting, planning, implementing, teaching, developing, and evaluating a comprehensive nursing plan of care; delivering direct patient care; ensuring patient satisfaction; training and delegating duties; and adhering to University policies and procedures as well as federal, state and local regulations.
Autonomous nursing care is the ability of a nurse to assess and provide nursing actions as appropriate for patient care populations based on competence, professional expertise, and knowledge. The nurse is expected to practice autonomously consistent with ANA Standards of Practice and Professional Performance. Independent judgment is expected to be exercised within the context of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches to patient care.
Provides direct patient care to a diversified patient population. Applies knowledge, experience and judgment to determine the importance of a situation, set priorities, and use abstract thought to evaluate clinical situations. Participates in patient and staff education. Demonstrates leadership skills. Demonstrates accountability for own practices as defined by the Nurse Practice Act.
Apply By Date: 06/20/2025 by 11:59pm.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications - For full consideration, applicants are encouraged to upload license and/or certification if required of the position
- Six (6) months of Operating Room nursing experience.
- Valid California Registered Nurse License without restriction
- American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS) or UC Davis Health CPR
- Graduation from an accredited school of nursing.
- Ability to read, write, speak, and understand the English language.
- Ability to utilize medical terminology appropriately.
- Knowledge of current trends in nursing.
- Commitment to excellence in patient care.
- Effective interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrates accountability and professionalism.
- Adapts to change in a positive, professional and productive manner.
- Knowledge of legal implications in clinical practice and documentation.
- Knowledge of performance improvement and evidence-based practice.
- Basic computer skills.
- Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care, taking into consideration protective interventions, development (behavioral and physical) and physiological characteristics specific to the patients.
Preferred Qualifications
- Certified Perioperative Nurse OR (CNOR) within 1 year of hire
- BSN
- One (1) year experience as a Operating Room RN and six (6) months scrubbing experience (can be in a non-nursing or student nurse role)
- Experience charting in EPIC
Key Responsibilities
- 70% - Nursing Process and Practice
- 15% - Quality and Evidence-Based Practice
- 5% - Leadership
- 5% - Professional Development
- 5% - Research
Department Overview
Perioperative Services at UC Davis Health encompasses multiple Operating Rooms,
Preoperative and Post-Anesthesia Units, and Sterile Processing Departments, across the
UC Davis Health Campus. Surgical care is provided across the entire life spectrum,
includes a wide range of inpatient and ambulatory surgical specialties, including (but not
limited to: ACS Level 1 Trauma, Bariatric, Burn, Cardiac, Colorectal, Endocrine, ENT,
Gynecology, comprehensive Neurosurgery, Oncologic, Ophthalmology, Orthopedic Trauma,
comprehensive Orthopedic (Spine, Foot & Ankle, Hand & Hand Trauma), Otolaryngology,
Pain, Plastics, Robotics, Thoracic, Transplant, Vascular, , Urology, and Uro-Gyn.
Additionally, our Children's Surgery Center provides comprehensive surgical care in the
full-range of surgical specialties in an age-appropriate setting.
Department Specific Job Scope
The Operating Room Registered Nurse assumes responsibility and accountability for
patients during the perioperative time frame. The Operating Room Basic Registered Nurse
provides surgical patient care by assessing, planning, and implementing the nursing
process in the scrub or circulator roles. Essential responsibilities may include, but not
limited to: Assisting surgeons in the operating room; work with other members of the
surgical team to ensure the operating room is prepared according to type of procedure;
work with other members of the surgical team to manage specimens; positions patient
safely on the operating table; perform general nursing duties and be competent in OR
procedures as verified by specific competencies; demonstrate the ability to facilitate
smooth and efficient room turnover and patient flow; perform measures to assure the
safety of team members and patients during the perioperative time frame; provide the
patient / family with pre and post operative education; integrate and coordinate patient
care throughout the surgical care continuum.
The Operating Room Registered Nurse assumes responsibility and accountability for
patients during the intraoperative phase of care during a patients perioperative
experience. Essential responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:
Develop and implement an individualized perioperative patient plan of care.
Protect the patient from injury caused by extraneous objects and chemical, electrical,
laser, mechanical, and thermal sources.
Perform accounting procedures to protect the patient from unintended retained surgical
items.
Perform interventions necessary to ensure that the patient's procedure is performed on
the correct site, side, and level.
Performs interventions necessary to ensure safe patient positioning on the surgical table.
Manage specimens according to organizational policy and procedures.
Communicate the patient's status to relevant parties throughout the continuum of care.
Prepare, and administer medications safely and correctly.
Perform interventions to maintain the status of the patient's genitourinary,
gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, endocrine, respiratory, cardiovascular, and neurological
systems and fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balances at or above baseline levels.
Perform interventions to ensure the patient is at or returned to normothermia at the
conclusion of the immediate postoperative period.
Perform interventions to protect the patient from surgical site infection.
Protect the patient's rights, dignity, and privacy by acting as a patient advocate.
Provide age-specific, culturally competent, ethical care within legal standards of practice.
Assure readiness for each patient using a team-based approach to room preparation,
including the post procedure cleaning of the room and preparation of room for subsequent
patients to ensure the patient moves through the perioperative continuum of care timely.
Document nursing care accurately, completely, and legibly in the electronic medical
record.
Function as a scrub person during operative and other invasive procedures by assembling,
preparing, and organizing sterile supplies and equipment, performing accounting
procedures with the RN circulator, assisting with placement of sterile drapes, providing
instruments and supplies to the surgical team during the procedure, maintaining an
organized sterile field, ensuring sterility of the field and taking corrective actions as
needed, and preparing sterile dressings.
Clean and prepare surgical instruments for processing and transports them to the
decontamination areas.
Collaborate effectively with all members of the perioperative team to assure safe, effective
quality of care for each patient and family member.
Coordinates transfer of care as applicable.
Performs interventions to assure the safety of team members and patients during the
intraoperative period.
POSITION INFORMATION
- Salary or Pay Range: $73.72 - $99.20
- Salary Frequency: Hourly
- Salary Grade: 114
- UC Job Title: CLIN NURSE 2
- UC Job Code: 009139
- Number of Positions: Multiple
- Appointment Type: Staff: Career
- Percentage of Time: 100%
- Shift (Work Schedule): Variable
- Location: Main Hospital (HSP001)
- Union Representation: NX-Nurses
- Benefits Eligible: Yes
- This position is 100% on-site
- This is not a H1-b Visa Opportunity
Benefits
Outstanding benefits and perks are among the many rewards of working for the University of California. UC Davis offers a full range of benefits, resources and programs to help you bring your best self to work, as well as to help you and your family achieve your health, wellness, financial and career goals. Learn more about the benefits below and eligibility rules by visiting either our handy https://apptrkr.com/get_redirect.php?id=6301462&targetURL=
Preferred Qualifications
- Certified Perioperative Nurse OR (CNOR) within 1 year of hire
- BSN
- One (1) year experience as a Operating Room RN and six (6) months scrubbing experience (can be in a non-nursing or student nurse role)
- Experience charting in EPIC
Key Responsibilities
- 70% - Nursing Process and Practice
- 15% - Quality and Evidence-Based Practice
- 5% - Leadership
- 5% - Professional Development
- 5% - Research
Department Overview
Perioperative Services at UC Davis Health encompasses multiple Operating Rooms,
Preoperative and Post-Anesthesia Units, and Sterile Processing Departments, across the
UC Davis Health Campus. Surgical care is provided across the entire life spectrum,
includes a wide range of inpatient and ambulatory surgical specialties, including (but not
limited to: ACS Level 1 Trauma, Bariatric, Burn, Cardiac, Colorectal, Endocrine, ENT,
Gynecology, comprehensive Neurosurgery, Oncologic, Ophthalmology, Orthopedic Trauma,
comprehensive Orthopedic (Spine, Foot & Ankle, Hand & Hand Trauma), Otolaryngology,
Pain, Plastics, Robotics, Thoracic, Transplant, Vascular, , Urology, and Uro-Gyn.
Additionally, our Children's Surgery Center provides comprehensive surgical care in the
full-range of surgical specialties in an age-appropriate setting.
Department Specific Job Scope
The Operating Room Registered Nurse assumes responsibility and accountability for
patients during the perioperative time frame. The Operating Room Basic Registered Nurse
provides surgical patient care by assessing, planning, and implementing the nursing
process in the scrub or circulator roles. Essential responsibilities may include, but not
limited to: Assisting surgeons in the operating room; work with other members of the
surgical team to ensure the operating room is prepared according to type of procedure;
work with other members of the surgical team to manage specimens; positions patient
safely on the operating table; perform general nursing duties and be competent in OR
procedures as verified by specific competencies; demonstrate the ability to facilitate
smooth and efficient room turnover and patient flow; perform measures to assure the
safety of team members and patients during the perioperative time frame; provide the
patient / family with pre and post operative education; integrate and coordinate patient
care throughout the surgical care continuum.
The Operating Room Registered Nurse assumes responsibility and accountability for
patients during the intraoperative phase of care during a patients perioperative
experience. Essential responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:
Develop and implement an individualized perioperative patient plan of care.
Protect the patient from injury caused by extraneous objects and chemical, electrical,
laser, mechanical, and thermal sources.
Perform accounting procedures to protect the patient from unintended retained surgical
items.
Perform interventions necessary to ensure that the patient's procedure is performed on
the correct site, side, and level.
Performs interventions necessary to ensure safe patient positioning on the surgical table.
Manage specimens according to organizational policy and procedures.
Communicate the patient's status to relevant parties throughout the continuum of care.
Prepare, and administer medications safely and correctly.
Perform interventions to maintain the status of the patient's genitourinary,
gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, endocrine, respiratory, cardiovascular, and neurological
systems and fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balances at or above baseline levels.
Perform interventions to ensure the patient is at or returned to normothermia at the
conclusion of the immediate postoperative period.
Perform interventions to protect the patient from surgical site infection.
Protect the patient's rights, dignity, and privacy by acting as a patient advocate.
Provide age-specific, culturally competent, ethical care within legal standards of practice.
Assure readiness for each patient using a team-based approach to room preparation,
including the post procedure cleaning of the room and preparation of room for subsequent
patients to ensure the patient moves through the perioperative continuum of care timely.
Document nursing care accurately, completely, and legibly in the electronic medical
record.
Function as a scrub person during operative and other invasive procedures by assembling,
preparing, and organizing sterile supplies and equipment, performing accounting
procedures with the RN circulator, assisting with placement of sterile drapes, providing
instruments and supplies to the surgical team during the procedure, maintaining an
organized sterile field, ensuring sterility of the field and taking corrective actions as
needed, and preparing sterile dressings.
Clean and prepare surgical instruments for processing and transports them to the
decontamination areas.
Collaborate effectively with all members of the perioperative team to assure safe, effective
quality of care for each patient and family member.
Coordinates transfer of care as applicable.
Performs interventions to assure the safety of team members and patients during the
intraoperative period.
POSITION INFORMATION
- Salary or Pay Range: $73.72 - $99.20
- Salary Frequency: Hourly
- Salary Grade: 114
- UC Job Title: CLIN NURSE 2
- UC Job Code: 009139
- Number of Positions: Multiple
- Appointment Type: Staff: Career
- Percentage of Time: 100%
- Shift (Work Schedule): Variable
- Location: Main Hospital (HSP001)
- Union Representation: NX-Nurses
- Benefits Eligible: Yes
- This position is 100% on-site
- This is not a H1-b Visa Opportunity
Benefits
Outstanding benefits and perks are among the many rewards of working for the University of California. UC Davis offers a full range of benefits, resources and programs to help you bring your best self to work, as well as to help you and your family achieve your health, wellness, financial and career goals. Learn more about the benefits below and eligibility rules by visiting either our handy Benefits Summary for UC Davis Health Employees or Benefits Summary for UC Davis Employees and our Benefits Page.
If you are represented by a union, benefits are negotiated between the University of California (UC) and your union and finalized in a contract. Read your bargaining unit's employment contract, stay abreast of current negotiations and learn about collective bargaining at UC: https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/labor/bargaining-units/index.html
Physical Demands
- Standing - Continuous 6 to 8+ Hours
- Walking - Continuous 6 to 8+ Hours
- Sitting - Frequent 3 to 6 Hours
- Lifting/Carrying 0-25 Lbs - Continuous 6 to 8+ Hours
- Pushing/Pulling 0-25 Lbs - Frequent 3 to 6 Hours
- Pushing/Pulling 26-50 lbs - Occasional Up to 3 Hours
- Pushing/Pulling over 50 lbs - Occasional Up to 3 Hours
- Bending/Stooping - Continuous 6 to 8+ Hours
- Squatting/Kneeling - Occasional Up to 3 Hours
- Twisting - Continuous 6 to 8+ Hours
- Climbing (e.g., stairs or ladders) - Occasional Up to 3 Hours
- Reaching overhead - Occasional Up to 3 Hours
- Keyboard use/repetitive motion - Frequent 3 to 6 Hours
Environmental Demands
- Loud noise levels - Occasional Up to 3 Hours
- Uneven Surfaces or Elevations - Occasional Up to 3 Hours
Mental Demands
- Sustained attention and concentration - Continuous 6 to 8+ Hours
- Complex problem solving/reasoning - Continuous 6 to 8+ Hours
- Ability to organize & prioritize - Continuous 6 to 8+ Hours
- Communication skills - Continuous 6 to 8+ Hours
- Numerical skills - Continuous 6 to 8+ Hours
- Constant Interaction - Continuous 6 to 8+ Hours
- Customer/Patient Contact - Continuous 6 to 8+ Hours
- Multiple Concurrent Tasks - Continuous 6 to 8+ Hours
Work Environment
UC Davis is a smoke and tobacco free campus effective January 1, 2014. Smoking, the use of smokeless tobacco products, and the use of unregulated nicotine products (e-cigarettes) will be strictly prohibited on any UC Davis owned or leased property, indoors and outdoors, including parking lots and residential space.
Works overtime as defined by the collective bargaining agreements; floats to other areas; and works weekends, holidays and call as required. References reflect an overall meets or exceeds.
Special Requirements - Please contact your recruiter with questions regarding which activities apply by position
- This is a critical position, as defined by UC Policy and local procedures, and as such, employment is contingent upon clearing a criminal background check(s) and may include drug screening, medical evaluation clearance and functional capacity assessment
- This position is designated as a mandated reporter under CANRA and UC policy, and employment is contingent on compliance with applicable policies, procedures and training requirements
Misconduct Disclosure Requirement: As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.
A Culture of Opportunity and Belonging
At UC Davis, we're committed to solving life's most urgent challenges and building a healthier, more resilient world. We believe in growing through every challenge, continually striving to improve, and welcoming new perspectives that strengthen our community. We recognize that a vibrant and innovative organization values both individual strengths and shared purpose. The best ideas often emerge when people with different experiences come together.
As you consider joining UC Davis, we invite you to explore our Principles of Community, our Clinical Strategic Plan and strategic vision for research and education. We believe you belong here. The University of California, Davis is an Equal Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status.
To view the University of California's Anti-Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/1001004/Anti-Discrimination
Because we want you to feel seen and valued, our recruitment process at UC Davis supports openness and authenticity. Research shows that some individuals hesitate to apply unless they meet every qualification. You may be an excellent fit for this role-or the next one. We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't match every listed requirement. #YouBelongHere
To learn more about our background check program, please visit: https://hr.ucdavis.edu/departments/recruitment/ucd/selection/background-checks
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About University of California Davis Health System
UC Davis is the home of the Aggies — go-getters, change makers and problem solvers who make their mark at one of the top public universities in the United States. Since we first opened in 1908, we’ve been known for standout academics, sustainability and Aggie Pride as well as valuing the Northern California lifestyle. These themes are woven into our 100-plus-year history and our reputation for solving problems related to food, health, the environment and society.Our 5,300-acre campus is in the city of Davis, a vibrant college town of about 68,000 located in Yolo County. The state capital is 20 minutes away, and world-class destinations such as the San Francisco Bay Area, Lake Tahoe and the Napa Valley are within a two-hour drive.
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