Job Description

Description

Introduction

Have you always dreamed of working in the OR? We invest in what matters most to nurses like you – at home, at work, and at every stage in your career. We have an exciting opportunity for you to join West Hills Hospital which is a part of the nation’s leading provider of healthcare services, HCA Healthcare.

Benefits

West Hills Hospital, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
  
• Fertility and family building benefits through Progyny
  
• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
  
• Family support, including adoption assistance, child and elder care resources and consumer discounts
  
• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
  
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  
• Retirement readiness and rollover services and preferred banking partnerships
  
• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
  
• Colleague recognition program
  
• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
  

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Do you want to work where you have a voice? Nurses are at the forefront of our commitment to the care and improvement of human life. At HCA Healthcare, there are many ways for nurses to have a voice through professional practice councils, advisory councils, vital voices surveys, and units of distinction. We learn from our multi-generational nursing family. We partner with our Nurses at West Hills Hospital!

Job Summary and Qualifications

This OR cohort will start on January 23, 2023.

Important things to keep in mind:

• This cohort is 22 weeks in length – 9 weeks of classroom training and 13 weeks of unit based clinical preceptorship.
• For the first 9 weeks, attendance is mandatory for all scheduled training dates to remain in the program. The schedule will typically be Monday – Friday from 8 am - 5 pm.
• Shift selections are not guaranteed and will be determined based off business needs. Shifts may not be determined until after cohort starts.
• Internal candidates must interview and have accepted offers within 3 weeks of the cohort start date for which you are applying for.

Interactive classroom lectures/discussions 

• Didactic training: introduces nurses to core curriculum and hospital initiatives in a classroom setting (10 weeks)
• Simulation training: reinforces nursing skills learned in the didactic setting (1 week)
• Hands on training: with a facility preceptor in your nursing unit (12 weeks)

AORN Perioperative 101 Core Curriculum – Lessons covering a wide range of topics relevant to Perioperative nursing.

• Curriculum based on evidence-based practice, National Standards, and the HCA Healthcare Clinical Standards of Excellence
• Surgical Positioning
• Scrubbing, gowning and gloving
• Drain Identification, Instrument Identification and counting, and sponge counts
• Basic Dysrhythmia 
• AHA Basic Life Support / Advanced Cardiac Life Support 
• Meditech (EHR) hands‐on training 
• Critical Care medication management 
• TeamSTEPPS® training 

What qualifications you will need:

• Recent graduate of an Accredited School of Nursing, BSN preferred.
• Graduate within the previous 12 - 18 months 
  
• Candidates must have previous acute care experience
• Independently maintains license
• Acquires required contact hours to maintain license
• Must be licensed by the state of California prior to scheduling an interview 
• Training will include BLS/ACLS certification 
• Self-motivated and strong communication skills required 
• Acceptance into the program requires a two-year commitment to West Hills Medical Center 
  

This role requires you to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 based on local, state and /or federal law or regulations (unless a medical or religious exemption is approved).

West Hills Hospital & Medical Center is a full-service acute care facility located in West Hills, CA, in the Western San Fernando Valley. The 260-bed facility recently completed an $80-million expansion that includes a new Emergency Department, Intensive Care Unit, Outpatient Services Unit, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, and The Grossman Burn Center. West Hills Hospital & Medical Center offers compassionate and responsive care for the improvement of human life. Serving the West Valley for more than 50 years, we offer numerous services, including orthopedic surgery, gastrointestinal and critical care.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses. 

"Bricks and mortar do not make a hospital. People do."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

If this opportunity is your next step in your career path, we encourage you to apply for our new title opening. We review all applications. Qualified candidates will be contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.