Transplant Operating Room Registered Nurse

UCHealth seeks an experienced RN for our Operating Room Transplant team. In this role, you’ll deliver specialized perioperative care for complex organ transplant surgeries in a leading academic medical center. Responsibilities include circulating and scrubbing, managing sterile fields, monitoring patients intraoperatively, and collaborating with surgeons, anesthesia, and multidisciplinary teams. You’ll support patient education, quality initiatives, and staff mentoring while working in a culture that values innovation, teamwork, and continuous learning. Provide perioperative nursing care for transplant surgeries in the operating room, ensuring patient safety and comfort. Prepare OR suites, instruments, and equipment for complex transplant procedures, working closely with surgical teams. Circulate and scrub as needed, manage sterile fields, and verify surgical counts per policy. Monitor patients’ status intraoperatively, documenting assessments, interventions, and responses in the EMR. Administer medications, blood products, and IV therapies according to provider orders and protocols. Collaborate with surgeons, anesthesiologists, and multidisciplinary teams to coordinate individualized care plans. Educate patients and families on pre- and post-operative expectations and transplant-related care. Follow infection prevention, safety, and regulatory standards, participating in quality and process-improvement initiatives. Precept and mentor new nurses and students, supporting a culture of learning and professional growth. Participate in on-call rotation, responding to urgent and scheduled transplant procedures as needed. Perioperative nursing Transplant OR procedures Circulating nurse skills Scrub nurse skills Sterile technique and infection control Intraoperative patient monitoring Medication and blood product administration Electronic medical record documentation ACLS and BLS protocols Interdisciplinary team collaboration Medical Insurance Dental Insurance Vision Insurance Life Insurance 401k Active CO RN license or compact equivalent Basic Life Support (BLS) certification Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certification CNOR certification preferred Transplant or perioperative nursing experience in acute care setting