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Operating room nurses fill a specialty occupation under H-1B standards, requiring a BSN and active U.S. state RN licensure. Perioperative employers routinely sponsor H-1B visas for scrub and circulating RN roles, and many file year-round outside the April lottery window through cap-exempt hospital systems.
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Full time
Shift:
12 Hour Day Shift (United States of America)
Hours per week:
36
Job Information
Exemption Status: Non-Exempt
A Brief Overview
Perioperative nursing is a specialty within the nursing profession that encompasses the care of individuals across the life span who are undergoing a surgical procedure or procedure requiring anesthesia. Perioperative nursing incorporates the pre-procedure care, intra operative and acute post-operative care. The Perioperative nurse will use a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to patient care. Perioperative nursing can range from routine, elective procedures to highly complex procedures to trauma. Perioperative nurses have adapted nursing process to include strict adherence to the surgical safety checklists, sterility, surgical counts and post-operative airway, pain and nausea management. Perioperative nurses will educate patients about post-operative care management and provide same day discharge instructions.
Education Qualifications
- Bachelors of Science: Nursing (BSN) Preferred
Skills and Abilities
- Demonstrates awareness and sensitivity to rights of patient/significant other, as identified within the institution. (Required proficiency)
- Demonstrates awareness and application of safety issues as identified within the institution. (Required proficiency)
- Demonstrates awareness of legal issues in all aspects of patient care and departmental functioning. Strives to manage situations in a manner, which minimizes risk to the patient and the institution. (Required proficiency)
- Demonstrates competency in selected psychomotor skills. (Required proficiency)
- Ability to communicate effectively using verbal, non-verbal and written methods. (Required proficiency)
- Ability to perform mathematical calculations related to medication administration and equipment calibration. Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations. (Required proficiency)
Licenses and Certifications
- Registered Nurse - KSBN A multistate license with the ability to practice within the State of Kansas is also accepted. Required
- Basic Life Support - BLS Must have within 90 days of hire.
- RQI, CPR or ACLS certifications may be required in lieu of or in addition to BLS depending on department.
What you will do
- Provides direct patient care as defined within the scope of the state’s nurse practice act. Performs assessment/data collection in an ongoing and systematic manner, focusing on physiological and cognitive status. Administers prescribed medications and treatments in accordance with nursing standards.
- Formulates a prioritized and goal directed plan of care, which is based on patient’s presenting problems and projected outcomes.
- Implements care in a knowledgeable, skillful, consistent manner, while promoting the continuum of care.
- Functions to establish priorities of patient care based on essential patient needs and available unit resources of time, personnel, equipment and supplies. Prepares equipment and aids provider during treatment, examination and testing of patients.
- Evaluates the effectiveness of the health care process (self, systems, environment, and instrumentation) in meeting outcomes. Observes, records, and reports patient’s condition and reaction to drugs and treatments to provider. Provides medication as directed.
- Documents in patient and department records in a timely, accurate and concise manner according to department standards. Maintains and reviews patient records, charts, and other pertinent information. Compiles tests and examination results.
- Adheres to Universal Protocol and completes surgical safety checklist. Creates maintains and monitors all persons in and around sterile environments.
- Functions to establish priorities of patient care based on essential patient needs and available department resources of time, personnel, equipment and supplies.
- Assures timely, appropriate surgical counts are performed.
- Participates in system wide/department patient care quality improvement activities as well as standards development.
- Participates actively in clinical education activities, including orientation of new employees and teaching student nurses. Participates in nursing research activities.
- Participates in development and attainment of system wide/department hospital goals.
- Delegates tasks and duties in the direction and coordination of health care team members, patient care and department activities in accordance with the Kansas State Nurse Practice Act.
- Adheres to staffing and scheduling practices.
- Seeks validation of knowledge base, skill level and decision making as necessary and assertively seeks guidance in areas of question.
Required for All Jobs
- Complies with all policies, standards, mandatory training and requirements of Stormont Vail Health
- Performs other duties as assigned
Patient Facing Options
- Position is Patient Facing
Remote Work Guidelines
- Workspace is a quiet and distraction-free allowing the ability to comply with all security and privacy standards.
- Stable access to electricity and a minimum of 25mb upload and internet speed.
- Dedicate full attention to the job duties and communication with others during working hours.
- Adhere to break and attendance schedules agreed upon with supervisor.
- Abide by Stormont Vail’s Remote Worker Policy and will review and acknowledge the Remote Work Agreement annually.
Remote Work Capability
- On-Site; No Remote
Scope
- No Supervisory Responsibility
- No Budget Responsibility
Physical Demands
- Balancing: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
- Carrying: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
- Climbing (Ladders): Occasionally 1-3 Hours
- Climbing (Stairs): Occasionally 1-3 Hours
- Crawling: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
- Crouching: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
- Eye/Hand/Foot Coordination: Frequently 3-5 Hours
- Feeling: Frequently 3-5 Hours
- Grasping (Fine Motor): Frequently 3-5 Hours
- Grasping (Gross Hand): Frequently 3-5 Hours
- Handling: Frequently 3-5 Hours
- Hearing: Frequently 3-5 Hours
- Kneeling: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
- Lifting: Frequently 3-5 Hours up to 50 lbs
- Operate Foot Controls: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
- Pulling: Occasionally 1-3 Hours up to 25 lbs
- Pushing: Occasionally 1-3 Hours up to 25 lbs
- Reaching (Forward): Occasionally 1-3 Hours up to 25 lbs
- Reaching (Overhead): Occasionally 1-3 Hours up to 25 lbs
- Repetitive Motions: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
- Sitting: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
- Standing: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
- Stooping: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
- Talking: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
- Walking: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
Working Conditions
- Burn: Rarely less than 1 hour
- Chemical: Rarely less than 1 hour
- Combative Patients: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
- Dusts: Rarely less than 1 hour
- Electrical: Rarely less than 1 hour
- Explosive: Rarely less than 1 hour
- Extreme Temperatures: Rarely less than 1 hour
- Infectious Diseases: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
- Mechanical: Rarely less than 1 hour
- Needle Stick: Frequently 3-5 Hours
- Noise/Sounds: Frequently 3-5 Hours
- Other Atmospheric Conditions: Rarely less than 1 hour
- Poor Ventilation, Fumes and/or Gases: Rarely less than 1 hour
- Radiant Energy: Rarely less than 1 hour
- Risk of Exposure to Blood and Body Fluids: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
- Risk of Exposure to Hazardous Drugs: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
- Hazards (other): Rarely less than 1 hour
- Vibration: Rarely less than 1 hour
- Wet and/or Humid: Rarely less than 1 hour
Stormont Vail is an equal opportunity employer and adheres to the philosophy and practice of providing equal opportunities for all employees and prospective employees, without regard to the following classifications: race, color, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, religion, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, uniformed service, disability or genetic information. This applies to all aspects of employment practices including hiring, firing, pay, benefits, promotions, lateral movements, job training, and any other terms or conditions of employment.
Retaliation is prohibited against any person who files a claim of discrimination, participates in a discrimination investigation, or otherwise opposes an unlawful employment act based upon the above classifications.
Position Status:
Full time
Shift:
12 Hour Day Shift (United States of America)
Hours per week:
36
Job Information
Exemption Status: Non-Exempt
A Brief Overview
Perioperative nursing is a specialty within the nursing profession that encompasses the care of individuals across the life span who are undergoing a surgical procedure or procedure requiring anesthesia. Perioperative nursing incorporates the pre-procedure care, intra operative and acute post-operative care. The Perioperative nurse will use a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to patient care. Perioperative nursing can range from routine, elective procedures to highly complex procedures to trauma. Perioperative nurses have adapted nursing process to include strict adherence to the surgical safety checklists, sterility, surgical counts and post-operative airway, pain and nausea management. Perioperative nurses will educate patients about post-operative care management and provide same day discharge instructions.
Education Qualifications
- Bachelors of Science: Nursing (BSN) Preferred
Skills and Abilities
- Demonstrates awareness and sensitivity to rights of patient/significant other, as identified within the institution. (Required proficiency)
- Demonstrates awareness and application of safety issues as identified within the institution. (Required proficiency)
- Demonstrates awareness of legal issues in all aspects of patient care and departmental functioning. Strives to manage situations in a manner, which minimizes risk to the patient and the institution. (Required proficiency)
- Demonstrates competency in selected psychomotor skills. (Required proficiency)
- Ability to communicate effectively using verbal, non-verbal and written methods. (Required proficiency)
- Ability to perform mathematical calculations related to medication administration and equipment calibration. Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations. (Required proficiency)
Licenses and Certifications
- Registered Nurse - KSBN A multistate license with the ability to practice within the State of Kansas is also accepted. Required
- Basic Life Support - BLS Must have within 90 days of hire.
- RQI, CPR or ACLS certifications may be required in lieu of or in addition to BLS depending on department.
What you will do
- Provides direct patient care as defined within the scope of the state’s nurse practice act. Performs assessment/data collection in an ongoing and systematic manner, focusing on physiological and cognitive status. Administers prescribed medications and treatments in accordance with nursing standards.
- Formulates a prioritized and goal directed plan of care, which is based on patient’s presenting problems and projected outcomes.
- Implements care in a knowledgeable, skillful, consistent manner, while promoting the continuum of care.
- Functions to establish priorities of patient care based on essential patient needs and available unit resources of time, personnel, equipment and supplies. Prepares equipment and aids provider during treatment, examination and testing of patients.
- Evaluates the effectiveness of the health care process (self, systems, environment, and instrumentation) in meeting outcomes. Observes, records, and reports patient’s condition and reaction to drugs and treatments to provider. Provides medication as directed.
- Documents in patient and department records in a timely, accurate and concise manner according to department standards. Maintains and reviews patient records, charts, and other pertinent information. Compiles tests and examination results.
- Adheres to Universal Protocol and completes surgical safety checklist. Creates maintains and monitors all persons in and around sterile environments.
- Functions to establish priorities of patient care based on essential patient needs and available department resources of time, personnel, equipment and supplies.
- Assures timely, appropriate surgical counts are performed.
- Participates in system wide/department patient care quality improvement activities as well as standards development.
- Participates actively in clinical education activities, including orientation of new employees and teaching student nurses. Participates in nursing research activities.
- Participates in development and attainment of system wide/department hospital goals.
- Delegates tasks and duties in the direction and coordination of health care team members, patient care and department activities in accordance with the Kansas State Nurse Practice Act.
- Adheres to staffing and scheduling practices.
- Seeks validation of knowledge base, skill level and decision making as necessary and assertively seeks guidance in areas of question.
Required for All Jobs
- Complies with all policies, standards, mandatory training and requirements of Stormont Vail Health
- Performs other duties as assigned
Patient Facing Options
- Position is Patient Facing
Remote Work Guidelines
- Workspace is a quiet and distraction-free allowing the ability to comply with all security and privacy standards.
- Stable access to electricity and a minimum of 25mb upload and internet speed.
- Dedicate full attention to the job duties and communication with others during working hours.
- Adhere to break and attendance schedules agreed upon with supervisor.
- Abide by Stormont Vail’s Remote Worker Policy and will review and acknowledge the Remote Work Agreement annually.
Remote Work Capability
- On-Site; No Remote
Scope
- No Supervisory Responsibility
- No Budget Responsibility
Physical Demands
- Balancing: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
- Carrying: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
- Climbing (Ladders): Occasionally 1-3 Hours
- Climbing (Stairs): Occasionally 1-3 Hours
- Crawling: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
- Crouching: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
- Eye/Hand/Foot Coordination: Frequently 3-5 Hours
- Feeling: Frequently 3-5 Hours
- Grasping (Fine Motor): Frequently 3-5 Hours
- Grasping (Gross Hand): Frequently 3-5 Hours
- Handling: Frequently 3-5 Hours
- Hearing: Frequently 3-5 Hours
- Kneeling: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
- Lifting: Frequently 3-5 Hours up to 50 lbs
- Operate Foot Controls: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
- Pulling: Occasionally 1-3 Hours up to 25 lbs
- Pushing: Occasionally 1-3 Hours up to 25 lbs
- Reaching (Forward): Occasionally 1-3 Hours up to 25 lbs
- Reaching (Overhead): Occasionally 1-3 Hours up to 25 lbs
- Repetitive Motions: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
- Sitting: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
- Standing: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
- Stooping: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
- Talking: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
- Walking: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
Working Conditions
- Burn: Rarely less than 1 hour
- Chemical: Rarely less than 1 hour
- Combative Patients: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
- Dusts: Rarely less than 1 hour
- Electrical: Rarely less than 1 hour
- Explosive: Rarely less than 1 hour
- Extreme Temperatures: Rarely less than 1 hour
- Infectious Diseases: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
- Mechanical: Rarely less than 1 hour
- Needle Stick: Frequently 3-5 Hours
- Noise/Sounds: Frequently 3-5 Hours
- Other Atmospheric Conditions: Rarely less than 1 hour
- Poor Ventilation, Fumes and/or Gases: Rarely less than 1 hour
- Radiant Energy: Rarely less than 1 hour
- Risk of Exposure to Blood and Body Fluids: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
- Risk of Exposure to Hazardous Drugs: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
- Hazards (other): Rarely less than 1 hour
- Vibration: Rarely less than 1 hour
- Wet and/or Humid: Rarely less than 1 hour
Stormont Vail is an equal opportunity employer and adheres to the philosophy and practice of providing equal opportunities for all employees and prospective employees, without regard to the following classifications: race, color, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, religion, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, uniformed service, disability or genetic information. This applies to all aspects of employment practices including hiring, firing, pay, benefits, promotions, lateral movements, job training, and any other terms or conditions of employment.
Retaliation is prohibited against any person who files a claim of discrimination, participates in a discrimination investigation, or otherwise opposes an unlawful employment act based upon the above classifications.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship in Registered Nurse Operating Room
Verify your credentials meet specialty occupation
USCIS requires a direct relationship between your degree field and the OR nursing role. A BSN in nursing satisfies this, but an ADN alone may trigger an RFE. Confirm your credential evaluation reflects a U.S.-equivalent bachelor's before applying.
Target cap-exempt hospital systems first
Nonprofit teaching hospitals and university-affiliated health systems can file H-1B petitions year-round, bypassing the April lottery entirely. Prioritize these employers when searching for OR roles so your start date isn't tied to an October 1 cap slot.
Check prevailing wage before evaluating offers
Your employer's LCA must certify a wage at or above the DOL prevailing rate for your metro area and SOC code. Run your job title and location through OFLC Wage Search before accepting an offer to confirm the listed salary qualifies.
Use Migrate Mate to find verified H-1B sponsors
Filter OR nursing roles by employers with confirmed H-1B LCA filing history on Migrate Mate. This surfaces perioperative units that have sponsored before, so you're not cold-applying to facilities that have never filed a petition for a clinical RN.
Ask employers about premium processing upfront
USCIS premium processing reduces adjudication to 15 business days. For OR nursing positions with a defined start date tied to hospital credentialing timelines, ask during negotiation whether the employer will elect premium processing on Form I-907.
Align NCLEX and state licensure before your petition files
USCIS and your employer both require an active, unencumbered RN license in the state where you'll work. Delays in NCLEX results or state board processing can hold up LCA certification, so complete licensure before your employer submits the H-1B petition.
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Find Registered Nurse Operating Room JobsRegistered Nurse Operating Room H-1B Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an operating room RN role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes. USCIS treats perioperative nursing as a specialty occupation because it normally requires a BSN in nursing as the minimum entry credential. The O*NET profile for registered nurses confirms a bachelor's degree is the standard educational requirement, which satisfies the specialty occupation definition. An ADN without additional qualifications may not meet the bar without supplemental documentation.
Which types of hospital employers are most likely to sponsor H-1B visas for OR nurses?
Nonprofit teaching hospitals, university health systems, and federally qualified health centers are cap-exempt and can file H-1B petitions any time of year. For-profit hospital networks can also sponsor but must compete in the April lottery unless the nurse is already in H-1B status. Use Migrate Mate to identify employers with a verified history of H-1B LCA filings for clinical RN roles.
Can I transfer my H-1B to a new hospital if I change OR positions?
Yes. H-1B portability under AC21 lets you start working for a new employer as soon as the new petition is filed, provided your previous petition was approved and you've maintained valid status. For OR nursing, the new employer must file a fresh LCA certified by DOL and submit Form I-129 before your first day at the new facility.
What happens to my H-1B status if my hospital loses its nonprofit or teaching status?
If your employer loses cap-exempt status after your petition is approved, your existing H-1B approval remains valid for its full period. You're not retroactively moved into the cap. If you need to extend or transfer, the new petition may be subject to the annual cap depending on the new employer's status at the time of filing.
How does state RN licensure affect the H-1B petition timeline for OR nurses?
Your employer's LCA and the I-129 petition both require evidence of an active RN license in the state of employment. If your NCLEX results are delayed or your endorsement application is pending, your employer can't certify the LCA, which stalls the entire petition. Apply for licensure in your target state as early as possible to avoid gaps in the filing timeline.
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