Clinical Nurse II - Operating Room

Registered Nurse Operating Room

With over 150 years of caring for our community and each other in the Washington DC area, Howard University Hospital has a world-renowned reputation for high-quality, patient-centric care. Howard University Hospital is the nation's only teaching hospital located on the campus of a Historically Black University and has created a superior learning environment, with groundbreaking research and positive patient outcomes. Howard University Hospital seeks to hire a Registered Nurse for our Operating Rooms who will embrace our rich and historic tradition of excellence. If you want to make a difference in someone's life every day, consider a position with a team of professionals who are doing just that, making a difference. Being a teaching hospital, we are education-driven and willing to train!

Required shifts:

• 6:30 am - 5 pm
• Required rotational on-call and weekends

The Operating Room Registered Nurse:

• Collaborates with patient/family and health care team to determine health goals and interventions and to revise plans of care as needed
• Maintains awareness of the unit's periodic statistics regarding core measures, nursing quality indicators, and customer satisfaction measures, and actively participates in activities/behaviors that progressively improve the statistics
• Provides nursing care consistent with the nursing practice standards, policies, and procedures established by the unit, department, division, and institution, professional ethics and standards, and legal requirements
• Serves in the rotational role of charge nurse upon completion of the 6 month orientation period, and with approval by the nurse manager
• Participates in unit performance improvement programs through ongoing design, assessment and measurement, and performance improvement activities
• Identifies patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a position to understand care requirements
• Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families
• Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals; teaching patient, friends, and family to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills; answering questions
• Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments; following hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care set by the Nurse Practice Act of the District of Columbia, and other governing agency regulations
• Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations
• Maintains nursing supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed supplies; placing and expediting orders for supplies; verifying receipt of supplies; using equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish job results
• Demonstrates competency in clinical skills, bedside manner, infection control, physiological knowledge, administering medication, medical teamwork, multi-tasking, listening, verbal communication, health promotion and maintenance

Qualified candidates will possess:

• Associate's Degree in Nursing required.
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing preferred.
• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in the District of Columbia.
• Maintains active American Heart Association Basic Life Support BLS certification
• Maintains active American Heart Association Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support ACLS certification
• CNOR preferred
• At least 12 months of RN acute care experience in hospital-based nursing, OR scrub experience required

At Howard University Hospital our job is to care for you. We do this by offering:

• Work-life balance
• Recognition and rewards for professional expertise
• Competitive, comprehensive benefit plans offered (including health, disability, vacation and sick leave, and 403B retirement plan)
• HRSA Loan Forgiveness available

This position is covered under the DC Nurses Association (DCNA) collective bargaining agreement. Base pay range: $37.33$62.43/hr, commensurate with experience and qualifications per the DCNA wage scale. Effective July 1, 2026, the base range will increase to $37.89$63.36/hr per the updated collective bargaining agreement.

A unit premium applies to all hours worked in this unit.

Additional compensation may include a night shift differential for qualifying evening/night shifts and a weekend differential for qualifying weekend shifts.