RN Pre & Post Surgery

As a Pre & Post Surgery RN, you will be a central figure in our patient care team, delivering exceptional, compassionate care that truly makes a difference in our patients' lives. You will serve as the patient’s advocate, guiding them through the transition from pre-operative preparation to post-surgical recovery.

Every day, you will leverage your robust clinical knowledge and technological proficiency to provide high-acuity care. You will collaborate with the multidisciplinary surgical team to create and implement individualized care plans, ensuring our patients feel informed, safe, and supported throughout their surgical journey.

To be successful in this role, you must combine strong clinical knowledge with an adaptable approach to patient-centered care, demonstrate clear, professional communication skills when coordinating with the surgical team, maintain technological proficiency to streamline care and documentation processes, and possess a genuine commitment to compassionate care and continuous learning in the surgical setting.

Essential Functions:

• Clinical Assessment & Documentation: Executes all assessments, admissions, transfers, shift assessments, and discharge planning within established hospital policy timeframes. Continually reassesses patient status, incorporating advanced nursing pathophysiology and assessment skills into daily practice.
• Critical Thinking & Intervention: Identifies predictable patient problems, life-threatening situations, and high-risk complications. Demonstrates the ability to assess multisystem failure or instability during complex interventions and proactively initiates appropriate, evidence-based responses.
• Holistic Patient Advocacy: Identifies the psycho-social, spiritual, cultural, and learning needs of patients and families. Evaluates coping mechanisms and support systems, identifying the need for additional resources (such as social services or specialized consults) to ensure a safe discharge.
• Care Planning & Integration: Initiates, determines, and prioritizes nursing diagnoses and expected outcomes. You will integrate the medical plan of care into a comprehensive nursing plan, utilizing established standards of care and incorporating age-specific needs, conditions, and diagnostic values for high-volume surgical cases.
• Collaboration & Communication: Acts as a key liaison within the healthcare team. You will effectively communicate and update the plan of care with surgical staff, physicians, and other members of the multidisciplinary team, ensuring the plan remains dynamic and reflects input from the patient and their significant others.
• Risk Anticipation: Recognizes the inter-relationship between physiological data, patient behavior, and clinical symptoms. You will anticipate potential problems for high-risk, complex, or low-volume cases, documenting clear intervention strategies to mitigate risk and ensure optimal outcomes.
• Environment of Care: Understands the profound effect of the surgical environment on the patient/family. You will provide fundamental care that is reflective of age-specific needs and ensures the accurate implementation of physician orders for all high-volume surgical diagnoses

Shift: Days/Evenings (Variable). While the core shift is 11:00 AM – 7:30 PM, this role requires schedule flexibility to align with surgical throughput and patient care demands.. Requires weekend call for GI lab.

Required

• 1 year experience in surgical services, critical care, or related field. 
• Graduate of accredited Registered Nurse (RN) program 
• Registered Nurse: CA, upon hire and
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire and
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support, upon hire and
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support, upon hire

Founded in 1910, Dignity Health - Community Hospital of San Bernardino is a 343-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital. Serving over 75,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level II NICU, maternity care and pediatrics, and behavioral health and long-term subacute care for adults and children. 

Additionally, Community Hospital of San Bernardino has been recognized with the gold seal of approval by the Joint Commission, as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, and rated five stars for Children’s Subacute Center by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In 2025, we were voted Best Hospital by Inland Empire Magazine. 

Community Hospital of San Bernardino shares a legacy of humankindness with Dignity Health and CommonSpirit Health, one of the nation’s largest health care systems, dedicated to providing compassionate, high-quality, and affordable patient-centered care.

One Community. One Mission. One California 

Depending on the position offered, CommonSpirit Health offers a generous benefit package, including but not limited to medical, prescription drug, dental, vision plans, life insurance, paid time off (full-time benefit eligible team members may receive a minimum of 14 paid time off days, including holidays annually), tuition reimbursement, retirement plan benefit(s) including, but not limited to, 401(k), 403(b), and other defined benefits offerings, as may be amended from time to time. For more information, please visit our Total Rewards.

Unless directed by a Collective Bargaining Agreement, applications for this position will be considered on a rolling basis. CommonSpirit Health cannot anticipate the date by which a successful candidate may be identified.