Perioperative
Nurse Careers

Our Perioperative Nurses provide surgical patient care by assessing, planning, and implementing the nursing care patients receive before, during and after surgery. These activities include patient assessment, creating and maintaining a sterile and safe surgical environment, pre- and post-operative patient education, monitoring the patient’s physical and emotional well-being, and integrating and coordinating patient care throughout the surgical care continuum. 

When working for the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Perioperative department, you’ll enjoy benefits such as:

  • A Shared Governance Model
  • Work-Life Balance Culture
  • Earned Time Off
  • Free Continuing Education Opportunities On-Site.

  • PSTs

    This position supports the nursing staff by helping to prepare and manage the environmental functions that support patient care.

  • CST School

    Welcome to our new program for students to become a Certified Surgical Tech. A CST works in conjunction with RNs to prepare the patient and the operating room for surgery. A CST ensures sterility of the equipment which they pass to the surgeon during the procedure.

  • CSR

    Central Sterile Reprocessing is the section in which all of the instruments are stored, sterilized, reprocessed for surgeries. CSR staff prepare the OR with case carts and instrument kits needed for surgery.

  • I&L

    Inventory and Logistics is where all of the disposable products necessary for surgery are stored. I&L staff manage and move product as needed.

  • Center for Surgical Innovation (CSI)

    Our Center for Surgical Innovation is our newest addition to Perioperative Services, allowing advanced technology into the Operating Rooms.
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Benefits

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Thank you for considering Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center as a place to start or continue your career.  At Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, our focus is on health, not just health care, collaboration, not competition with our health system colleagues, and new and vibrant partnerships to improve care, improve health, and lower costs. That is why we offer some of the best benefits available. Learn more by reviewing our digital benefits brochure below.

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Meet Our Units

Surgeons

Perioperative Services consists of four main units. The Main Operating Room and the Outpatient Surgery Center provide opportunities to be involved directly with surgical procedures. Our Post-Anesthetic Care Unit and Same Day Program provide opportunities to care for patients during pre and post-op treatment.

Center for Surgical Innovation
Main Operating Room
Outpatient Surgery Center
Post-Anesthetic Care Unit
Same Day Program

Employee Involvement

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As a Perioperative Service team member many opportunities will be available to you. Opportunities include, but are not limited to, staff retreats, continuing education and being a part of a Shared Governance model. The Leaders within Perioperative Services encourage personal and professional development through educational courses offered internally and externally.

Learning Opportunities
Our Councils

Our Mission

CPS (Center for Perioperative Services) seeks to develop and advance the art and science of peri-operative medicine so as to best meet the needs of our patients and their families, and to practice careful stewardship in the delivery of evidence-based, innovative, high-quality care in a multidisciplinary and collaborative environment.

CPS (Center for Perioperative Services) promotes a patient and family-centered, team-based model of peri-operative care delivery and seeks to advance the national standard for quality, research, and education with a sincere commitment to creative and continuous improvement, professional development, evidence-based practice, and the most efficient use of resources.

What do you like best about working in Perioperative Services at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center?

Staff and ability to make a difference for people having a procedure.

Pam Annis, SDP Employee29 years at DHMC

Nurses that I work with/team work.

Celeste, PeriOp Employee34 years at DHMC

Variety of cases, ease of schedule.

Kerri Toste, OR Employee6 years at DHMC

The people and hours.

Marcia, SDP Employee3.5 years at DHMC

The ability to scrub or circulate and being able to focus on one patient at a time.

Steven Doyle, OR Employee6 years at DHMC