RN III Surgery
Long Beach, CAJob$69.41–79.89/hrSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Registered Nurse III Surgery provides individualized patient care, performs assessments and procedures, and implements care plans in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team. The role includes involving patients and families in care decisions, identifying safety and comfort needs, preventing unsafe practices, and documenting assessments, interventions, and outcomes. The posting requires California RN licensure, specified life-support credentials, and minimum experience in RN and operating-room roles.
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Job Summary and Responsibilities
As our Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery.
Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.
To thrive in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.
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Demonstrates the ability to safely and competently perform tasks, skills, duties, procedures and responsibilities according to Medical Center Policy and Procedure. Including, but not limited to:
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Demonstrates ability to assess/interpret age-specific data.
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Encourages involvement of patient/family/significant other in decision making related to plan of care: 1. identifies patient/caregiver teaching needs 2. identifies patient safety issues 3. Identifies patient comfort / pain issues
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Performs the priority procedures for the assigned patients or areas safely - without causing harm legally - within the scope of practice and SMMC policy and in a manner perceived as satisfying by the patient and family.
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Identifies actual and potentially unsafe care practices, initiates actions as appropriate to prevent or correct and reports in a timely manner.
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Documents in accordance with SMMC policy and procedure in a timely manner the following information: 1. initial and subsequent assessment and data including a cardiac assessment 2. interventions 3. patient response and outcome 4. unusual occurrences
Job Requirements
Required
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Current licensure as a Registered Nurse in the State of California
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Minimum 5 years experience as an RN
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Minimum of three years recent experience in Circulator Role in OR or minimum 3years in an OR for a designated TraumaCenter
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Registered Nurse: CA
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Basic Life Support - CPR
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Advanced Cardiac Life Support
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Pediatric Advanced Life Support,
Preferred
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Certified Nurse Operating Room
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CVOR Experience, Willing to train with adequate OR experience
Where You'll Work
Founded in 1923, Dignity Health - St. Mary Medical Center is a 389-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Long Beach, California. Serving over 80,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level II Trauma Center, Level III NICU, heart care, and orthopedics. Additionally, St. Mary Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center and received a Healthgrades 5-Star Award for Heart Failure in 2026.
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Pay Range
$69.41 - $79.89 /hour
We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
How this job compares
Set against the 58,891 open Registered Nurse jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$69.41–79.89/hr
- California median$54–75/hr1,563 hourly ranges
- US median$38–54/hr24,691 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $74.65/hr, is 16% above the California median midpoint ($64/hr) — in the middle half of Registered Nurse hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 2,439 open Registered Nurse jobs in California and 58,891 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Kaiser Permanente284 open
- Health Advocates Network225 open
- Sutter Health185 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience — more than three in four Registered Nurse postings that state a minimum ask for (median 1 year, across 28,682 postings).
- Education
- 4,378 of the 58,891 open Registered Nurse jobs (7%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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