OR RN

Shift: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Call Requirement: 3-5 call shifts per 6-week schedule. Must be able to arrive at the hospital within 30 minutes when on call.

About The Role

Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Waxahachie is seeking an experienced Operating Room Registered Nurse to deliver safe, high-quality perioperative patient care across a variety of surgical specialties. Responsibilities include assisting anesthesia providers during induction, patient positioning, coordinating and verifying surgical counts with the scrub technologist, leading key patient safety practices such as time-outs and debriefs, and maintaining accurate clinical documentation throughout the surgical experience.

Department Highlights

Support the Operating Room at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Waxahachie, a growing surgical services department.

Currently operating 7 OR suites with plans to expand by 3 additional operating rooms in the spring.

Collaborative perioperative team environment focused on patient safety, quality outcomes, and professional growth.

Exposure to a broad range of specialties including Robotics, General Surgery, Gynecology, Urology, Neuro, and Orthopedics.

Opportunity to work alongside experienced surgeons, anesthesia providers, scrub technologists, and nursing professionals.

Nurses are valued as key members of the surgical team and play an essential role in the patient experience from pre-op through recovery.

Required Qualifications

Graduate of an accredited nursing program.

Current RN license.

Minimum of 1 year of experience as a circulating Operating Room RN.

Experience across multiple specialties including Robotics, General Surgery, Gynecology, Urology, Neuro, and Orthopedics preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

Ability to both circulate and scrub surgical cases.

Strong teamwork, communication, and critical thinking skills.

Join a team where nurses are valued as key members of the perioperative team and have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on patient care while growing professionally.

About Us

Here at Baylor Scott & White Health we promote the well-being of all individuals, families, and communities. Baylor Scott and White is the largest not-for-profit healthcare system in Texas that empowers you to live well.

Our Core Values Are

We serve faithfully by doing what's right with a joyful heart. We never settle by constantly striving for better. We are in it together by supporting one another and those we serve. We make an impact by taking initiative and delivering exceptional experience.

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to help you live well no matter where you are on your journey. For full details on coverage and eligibility, visit the Baylor Scott & White Benefits Hub to explore our offerings, which may include:

• Immediate eligibility for health and welfare benefits
• 401(k) savings plan with dollar-for-dollar match up to 5%
• Tuition Reimbursement
• PTO accrual beginning Day 1

Note: Benefits may vary based upon position type and/or level.

Job Summary

The Operating Room (OR) Registered Nurse (RN) is a licensed professional. The RN uses the BSWH nursing model to coordinate patient care. Using the nursing process, the RN assesses the patient and identifies nursing diagnoses. The RN develops and implements an individualized care plan and evaluates the patient's response. The RN promotes safe passage for patients by using knowledge of patient needs. The RN helps patients transition through healthcare without preventable complications or delays. The RN delegates interventions based on the Texas Nursing Practice Act, patient condition, and employee competencies.

Essential Functions Of The Role

Clinical Judgment: Using clinical reasoning, conducts accurate assessments according to standards. Identifies and prioritizes patient and family needs. Develops, implements, and evaluates the nursing care plan.

Modifies plan to meet outcomes. Clinical Inquiry: Evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice, including nursing indicators. Helps evidence-based practice changes through research and learning.

Participates in quality improvement initiatives. Caring Practices: Creates an attentive, helpful, safe, and therapeutic environment for patients, families, and staff. Develops therapeutic relationships with patients and families and maintains appropriate boundaries.

Manages fiery and physical pain to promote relief and healing and prevent unnecessary suffering. Response to Diversity: Recognizes and appreciates a patient's and family's unique differences. Incorporates culture, beliefs, gender, race, ethnicity, lifestyle, status, age, and values into a care plan.

Advocacy and Moral Agency: Preserves and protects the confidentiality, autonomy, dignity, and rights of patients and families. Represents their concerns. Creates an individualized plan that reflects patient and family values and goals.

Identifies and helps resolve ethical and clinical concerns. Facilitation of Learning: Facilitates learning for patients, families, nursing staff, health care team, and community. Integrates education throughout care to help them make informed health care recommendations.

Includes health promotion and disease prevention. Assesses and documents learning needs and outcomes. Partnership: Works with colleagues and community to create and implement a care plan.

Open and attentive to all team members' unique contributions. Delegates tasks to appropriate staff and ensures timely follow-up. Systems Thinking: Uses strategies and resources for problem-solving for patients, family, and staff.

Recognizes limited resources and considers safety, effectiveness, and efficiency in planning and delivering patient care.

Key Success Factors

Knowledge and expertise of nursing and patient care standards and procedures. Know laws, rules, and regulations. Comprehend standards and guidelines of certifying and accrediting bodies.

Follow hospital and department/unit standards, protocols, policies, and procedures for nursing care in the assigned area. Knowledge of medical terminology, health promotion, risk reduction, and disease prevention and management. Know About medications, common dosages, effects, and possible adverse reactions.

Knowledge of medical and professional nursing ethics and patient privacy rights. Must be able to communicate thoughts clearly, both verbally and in writing. Social skills to interact with a wide range of constituencies.

Must have critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Observe changes in patients' medical conditions and communicate them to nursing staff and physicians/providers. Provide age-specific, quality, patient-centered care through the nursing process and standards.

Respect the diversity of human experience. Develop, evaluate, implement, and modify patient care plans as needed. General computer skills include Microsoft Office, information security, scheduling and payroll systems, electronic medical documentation, and email.

Belonging Statement

We believe that all people should feel welcomed, valued and supported.

Qualifications

EDUCATION - Grad of an Accredited Program or 2 years of work experience above the minimum qualification MAJOR - Nursing EXPERIENCE - 2 Years of Experience

Certification/license/registration

Registered Nurse (RN) Basic Life Support (BLS): BLS or BLS within 30 days of hire or transfer.