Surgical Registered Nurse (RN) – PRN
Keosauqua, Iowa
OR
Posted Jul 24
- Unit
- OR
What the listing says
Role
- Term
- Per Diem
- On the floor
- Floating required
- Setting
- Hospital
- Accepts
- RN
Ratio not posted. Ask in the interview.
Pay
- Against the board
The median for nursing in Iowa is $36/hr, across 120 postings. It covers every nursing role in the state, so it is a bearing, not a like-for-like comparison.
About this role
*Position Overview* Van Buren County Hospital is seeking an experienced *Operating Room Registered Nurse (RN)* to join our surgical services team on a PRN basis.
As a Critical Access Hospital, this role offers more than a traditional operating room position. In addition to providing perioperative nursing care as a circulating and/or scrub nurse, you'll also support our *Outpatient Treatment Center*, providing services such as wound care and infusion therapy. If you enjoy variety and the opportunity to utilize a broad range of nursing skills, this may be the perfect fit.
*Key Responsibilities*
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- Provide perioperative nursing care in accordance with established surgical protocols
- Function as a circulating nurse and/or scrub nurse based on training and assignment
- Maintain and enforce principles of surgical asepsis and sterile technique
- Prepare operating rooms, equipment, instruments, and supplies for surgical procedures
- Position patients appropriately to prevent injury, pressure points, or skin breakdown
- Perform and document required sponge, needle, and instrument counts
- Obtain medications, supplies, and equipment during procedures as needed
- Monitor patient condition and communicate relevant information to the surgical team
- Coordinate with anesthesia, surgeons, and support staff to ensure safe and efficient procedures
- Provide nursing care in the wound/treatment room during scheduled or periodic rotation, including dress
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Requirements
- RN
Place
- City
- Keosauqua, Iowa
- Median rent
- $480/mo
- Local household income
- $51,136/yr
- State price level
- 12% below the national average
- Beds
- 25
rent and tenant-paid utilities · Census ACS 2024
all local households, not nurse pay · Census ACS 2024
Iowa index 87.8, where 100 is the national average.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 Regional Price Parities.
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You are looking at Van Buren County Hospital in Keosauqua, Iowa—a Critical Access Hospital open since 1951 and CAH-designated since 2002. The campus folds in a Private Care Unit, skilled nursing and rehab, surgical services, infusion and wound care, an…
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