Job Description

There are exciting new opportunities at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist! We are seeking an experienced Surgical Services RN to join our regional Surgical Services Float Pool. In this position, you will provide support to the Wake region ORs. If you're an experienced RN with a passion for surgical services, you'll find a world of growth and learning opportunities awaiting you at our renowned Academic Learning Health System. With our growing Academic Learning Health System, you'll be immersed in diverse learning environments, granting you access to a broad range of exciting opportunities. Our commitment to mobility and career advancement ensures that we cater to your professional and personal needs at every stage of your journey.

Position Highlights:

• Sign-on Bonus This job qualifies for a $15,000 sign–on bonus, provided the candidate meets eligibility requirements. Click here to learn more.
• Shift Schedule: 3-12 or 4-10 scheduling options available
• Department: Surgical Services Float Pool
• Location: Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist region

What We Offer:

• Day 1 Health Coverage: Choose from either copay or HSA-eligible health insurance options with coverage starting on your first day of work.
• Education Assistance: We invest in your professional growth, offering up to $2,500 per year towards a bachelor’s degree and up to $5,000 per year towards a graduate degree.
• Retirement: Up to 7% employer-paid contributions to your retirement fund.
• Wellness: Access LiveWell incentives to earn rewards for physical, financial, and personal well-being.

Renders highly professional and technical nursing care to assigned patient. Provides direct patient care using the nursing process (assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation). Directs and supervises other assigned team members and collaborates with multidisciplinary team members to provide age/developmentally appropriate care in accordance with unit standards of care.

Position will require floating within the Wake region:

• Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center (Winston-Salem, NC),
• Davie Medical Center (Bermuda Run, NC),
• Wilkes Medical Center (North Wilkesboro, NC)
• High Point Medical Center (High Point, NC)
• Lexington Medical Center (Lexington, NC)

What You'll Need:

• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing.
• Minimum of one year Operating Room experience or participation in a post-graduate program required.
• 3 years of experience strongly preferred.
• Refresher course required for nurses who have not worked in an Operating Room for five years or more.
• Current licensures to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of North Carolina
• BCLS required.
• CNOR preferred.

What You'll Do:

Job requirements may include, but are not limited to:

1. Utilizes the nursing process to ensure quality patient care is provided throughout the episode of care.
2. Ensures complete, accurate and timely computerized communication of patient information.
3. Demonstrates cost containment activities.
4. Communicates to the team, co-workers, patients and family members in an effective, positive, and professional manner.
5. Takes personal responsibility and initiative for performance and for professional growth and development.

Skills/Qualifications

• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Functions effectively under stressful and difficult situations
• Performs effectively with frequent workload changes and competing demands
• Follows standards of clinical nursing practice
• Follows systems for patient safety
• Basic computer skills

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s two main components are an integrated clinical system – anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Brenner Children’s Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.

Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.

This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.