
Charge Nurse Operating Room III - Midwest Center for Day Surgery
Downers Grove, ILJob$35–62.5/hrSeen 2 days agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago
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Job overview
The Charge Nurse (RN) Operating Room manages perioperative patient care and the surgical area during the tour of duty. The role includes assessing patients, coordinating individualized care plans and handoffs, supporting perioperative personnel, and contributing to quality improvement. Candidates need nursing education and current state licensure; BLS/BCLS and ACLS certification must be completed within 90 days of employment if not already current. Perioperative nursing certification is preferred.
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Overview
At SCA Health, we believe health care is about people – the patients we serve, the physicians we support and the teammates who push us forward. Behind every successful facility, procedure or innovation is a team of 15,000+ professionals working together, learning from each other and living out the mission, vision and values that define our organization.
As part of Optum, SCA Health is redefining specialty care by developing more accessible, patient-centered practice solutions for a network of more than 370 ambulatory surgical centers, over 400 specialty physician practice clinics and numerous labs and surgical hospitals. Our work spans a broad spectrum of services, all designed to support physicians, health systems and employers in delivering efficient, value-based care to patients without compromising quality or autonomy.
What sets SCA Health apart isn’t just what we do, it’s how we do it. Each decision we make is rooted in seven core values:
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Clinical quality
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Integrity
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Service excellence
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Teamwork
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Accountability
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Continuous improvement
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Inclusion
Our values aren’t empty words – they inform our attitudes, actions and culture. At SCA Health, your work directly impacts patients, physicians and communities. Here, you’ll find opportunities to build your career alongside a team that values your expertise, invests in your success, and shares a common mission to care for patients, serve physicians and improve health care in America.
At SCA Health, we offer a comprehensive benefits package to support your health, well-being, and financial future. Our offerings include medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401k plan with company match, paid time off, life and disability insurance, and more. Please visit, https://careers.sca.health/why-sca, to learn more about our benefits.
Your ideas should inspire change. If you join our team, they will.
Responsibilities
We are actively hiring for an Charge Nurse Operating Room.
Charge Nurse (RN) Operating Room Responsibilities:
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Assess p atient status throughout the perioperative episode of care .
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Develop an individualized perioperative patient plan of care by implementing:
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Provide hand-off report to other teammates that are accurate, concise and pertinent to the patient’s condition and response to care.
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Manage the surgical area both operationally and fiscally during tour of duty.
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Act as a clinical resource for perioperative personnel using current literature and guidelines, organizational policies and procedures, and regulatory and accreditation standards.
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Assist perioperative personnel in the evaluation of current practice through quality and performance improvement activities.
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Maintain radiation safety at all times in accordance with facility policies and procedures.
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Perform all other duties as assigned .
Qualifications
Charge Nurse (RN) Operating Room Requirements:
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Graduate of an a ccredited s chool of n ursing .
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O ne year of OR and/or medical / surgical nursing experience preferred .
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Current state nursing licensure to practice in good standings .
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Successful completion of Basic Life Support (BLS) or Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) within 90 of employment or documentation of current BLS/BCLS certification.
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Successful completion of Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Course within 90 days of employment or documentation of current ACLS certification.
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Successful completion of Pediatric Advance Life support (PALS) course is required when pediatric care is included in the facility scope of services within 90 days of employment or documentation of current PALS certification.
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Specialty certification in Perioperative Nursing is preferred.
USD $35.00/Hr. USD $62.50/Hr.
How this job compares
Set against the 28,933 open Nurse jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$35–62.5/hr
- Illinois median$34–48/hr558 hourly ranges
- US median$34–45/hr12,875 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $48.75/hr, is 15% above the Illinois median midpoint ($43/hr) — in the top quarter of Nurse hourly ranges in Illinois.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 727 open Nurse jobs in Illinois and 28,933 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Illinois
- Aveanna Healthcare85 open
- Advocate Health75 open
- Trinity Health36 open
- Experience
- Nurse postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (12,054 postings).
- Education
- 3,109 of the 28,933 open Nurse jobs (11%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Pay, requirements and demand for Nurse jobs
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 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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