If you’re considering a perioperative nursing career — whether you’ve already embarked on a surgical center career, you’re an experienced nurse looking to change specialties, or you’re a new nurse intent on a career in perioperative nursing — bear this in mind: Where you work matters, not only to your overall job satisfaction, but also to your ability to provide the top-notch care your patients deserve.
Yes, salary, benefits, and working atmosphere contribute to successful, satisfying perioperative nursing careers; but so does the opportunity to positively impact and safeguard the lives of the patients under your care.
It’s no secret that high-performing healthcare organizations produce high-quality clinical outcomes. New research, published in December 2016, contributes to a long list of studies that confirm striking differences between outcomes in high- and low-performing hospitals. The in-depth analysis found, for example, the incidence of post-operative sepsis to be three times more likely in low-performing hospitals than in high-performing ones.
High-performing hospitals also promote high-performing nursing careers. Healthcare leaders like Eisenhower Medical Center offer perioperative nurses greater opportunities to employ evidence-based practice standards, collaborate on quality initiatives, and exercise judgment and discretion to ensure patient satisfaction and optimal outcomes.
Your choice of employer can make all the difference in achieving a long, fulfilling, and impactful perioperative nursing career. Here are a few reasons why a position at Eisenhower Medical Center can help you reach that goal:
Award-Winning Clinical Care
At Eisenhower Medical Center, our commitment to providing the highest-quality healthcare services lies at the center of all we do. As a renowned healthcare leader and the only not-for-profit teaching hospital in the Palm Springs area, we attract top clinicians. We view our expertise and dedication to performance excellence as practicing “Healthcare as It Should Be.”
Our level of superior care in surgical services and other clinical areas has been recognized by a variety of healthcare industry heavyweights. A few of our recent honors include:
- HealthGrades® ranked Eisenhower Medical Center among America’s 100 Best Hospitals for general surgery, orthopedic surgery, and spine surgery. The organization also honored our cardiac surgery, vascular surgery, coronary intervention, and gastrointestinal care programs with awards of excellence.
- Becker’s Hospital Review listed Eisenhower Medical Center’s Orthopedic Center of Excellence programs, including total joint replacement and spine surgery, as among the nation’s Top 100 Orthopedic Programs. Eisenhower Medical Center was the only facility in the Palm Springs area to earn a spot on the list.
- Hip and knee replacement procedures at Eisenhower Medical Center have achieved the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association’s prestigious Blue Distinction for patient safety and outcomes.
- U.S. News & World Report rated us as the No. 1 performing hospital in California’s Riverside Metro area. The publication recognized Eisenhower Medical Center as a high-performing facility in all nine of the specialty areas it evaluated, including in hip and knee replacement programs.
- The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recognized our facilities among the 20% of hospitals nationwide to earn four stars in its Overall Hospital Quality and Star Rating program.
- Truven Health Analytics named Eisenhower Medical Center as one of the nation’s Top 50 Cardiovascular Hospitals. We’re the only facility in California’s Riverside and San Bernardino Counties to earn this distinction.
- The Leapfrog Group acknowledged Eisenhower Medical Center with an “A” rating in its Hospital Safety Score program.
Pioneering Technology
Innovation is second nature to us at Eisenhower Medical Center. We were the first facility in the Palm Springs area to employ minimally invasive, hand-assisted laparoscopic techniques in a variety of gastrointestinal and abdominal procedures. Ours was also the first facility in Riverside County to offer transcatheter aortic heart valve procedure as an alternative to open-heart surgery. Among facilities in the area we pioneered use of robotics for a variety of minimally invasive surgical procedures, from general surgery to gynecology, prostate, gastrointestinal, bariatric, kidney, and thoracic procedures, with the da Vinci® HD Surgical System.
Nursing Excellence
Eisenhower Medical Center’s longstanding commitment to excellence in nursing practice was recognized in 2015 with the prestigious Magnet® designation, considered the gold standard of nursing care. We remain the only healthcare organization in the Palm Springs area to achieve the distinction.
Magnet recognition validates our strong support for advancing the standards of nursing practice and quality initiatives. It demonstrates our respect for nurses across our organization and our dedication to advancing their professional development.
We support life-long learning for our nursing team members. Perioperative nurses at Eisenhower Medical Center can take advantage of our Nursing Education Program, monthly Nursing Grand Rounds series, workshops, conferences, and independent continuing education study. Generous tuition reimbursement is available to nurses enrolled in degree programs.
Supportive Culture
Integrity, respect, honesty and professionalism — these are the values that drive the culture throughout the Eisenhower Medical Center system.
We’re committed not only to providing exceptional experiences for our patients, but also for our employees. Our genuinely supportive environment shows in our open communication style and leadership in diversity and equality. We recognize RNs as our ultimate patient advocates; and we strongly encourage nurses to become bold, transformational leaders who maintain strong voices in decision making at all levels of our organization. The Advisory Board Company, a consulting firm focused on best practices within the healthcare industry, named Eisenhower Medical Center one of its 2016 Workplaces of the Year in recognition of our high levels of employee engagement. Only 20 hospitals and healthcare organizations throughout the country earned the award last year.
Across our inpatient surgery, pre-op areas and PACU, and outpatient surgical services, nurses serve as highly respected members of our top-ranked surgical teams and enjoy extraordinary levels of collaboration with their colleagues. Perioperative nurses at Eisenhower Medical Center form strong bonds with their clinical coworkers, are regularly recognized for their contributions to superior patient care, and form a significant part of our cadre of long-term employees.
In addition to competitive compensation, generous benefits, and relocation assistance, Eisenhower Medical Center makes employee satisfaction off-the-job a priority. We encourage all of our employees to take advantage not only of health and wellness programs available through the Medical Center, including free access to our state-of-the-art fitness center, community health lectures, and a variety of personalized wellness activities, but also the many recreational and cultural opportunities available in our sun-filled, highly desired location in the Palm Springs area.
Remember, where you work matters — for you and patients. Boost your job satisfaction and the satisfaction of your patients by choosing an established leader for your perioperative nursing career. Apply with us today.
Originally posted on 7/2/2017