With more than 100 operating rooms across 15 locations, there’s plenty of opportunity to learn and grow at LVHN. Whatever you’re looking for in your perioperative nursing career, you can find it here.

Experienced perioperative nursing career opportunity at LVHN

Whether it’s cardiac, neuro or pediatric, we have surgical specialties for everyone. We offer numerous pathways for advancement, support for specialty certification, tuition reimbursement and education discounts. Plus, qualified candidates earn a sign-on bonus.

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Grow a perioperative nursing career with LVHN

LVHN has state-of-the-art facilities and a variety of specialty areas for nurses to pursue. LVHN is currently offering nursing careers in the Lehigh Valley, including Allentown, Bethlehem and Easton. LVHN also offers opportunities for nursing careers in Hazleton, East Stroudsburg, Pottsville, Dickson City and Lehighton.

LVHN supports perioperative nurses to be their best. Be a leader who is empowered to grow in your profession and help shape the future of patient care, while providing compassionate, evidence-based care today.

If you have a passion for education and continuing to learn new skills, LVHN is a great place to spend your entire career. We offer numerous pathways for advancement for perioperative nurses, support for specialty certification, tuition reimbursement and education discounts to complete or advance your nursing education.

Operating Room Internship for GNs and RNs

This internship introduces graduate nurses (GNs) and registered nurses (RNs) to the perioperative role in the operating room. Learn from knowledgeable, experienced educators and preceptors who teach curricula developed and supported by the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses and apply your skills in a clinical setting. 

After completing the operating room internship at LVHN, you are eligible for a full-time position in perioperative services.

RNs and GNs: Apply now 

Freedom on weekdays with perioperative weekend program

Interested in a health care career that provides the pay you deserve and the freedom to spend your weekdays the way you want? Look no further that LVHN’s perioperative weekend program. Positions are available for experienced registered nurses and surgical technologists at Lehigh Valley Hospital (LVH)–Cedar Crest and LVH–Muhlenberg.

Have kids? Going back to school? Need extra money? The weekend program gives you the flexibility to use your weekdays the way you want to. Earn a generous salary through the periop weekend program, and on weekdays you can spend time with family (and maybe avoid costly daycare expenses), earn a college degree or pick up a part-time job.

To learn more, apply below and then speak with a member of LVHN’s human resources team.

Registered nurses: Apply now

 

Surgical technologists: Apply now

LPNs in the operating room

Licensed practical nurses (LPNs) who are interested in working in the perioperative setting can join LVHN and receive on-the-job training. You will be immersed in the scrub role within LVHN operating rooms (ORs), working to support aseptic technique, provide physicians with the instruments and tools to do their job and be part of a comprehensive interdisciplinary team that focuses on patient safety and advocacy.

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We Are Magnet®

At LVHN, you’ll find the world’s best nurses. Magnet recognition is the most prestigious designation a hospital can earn. Only 8 percent of hospitals in the nation hold this honor and, in the Lehigh Valley, only LVHN hospitals have earned Magnet recognition.
Read what it means to be a Magnet nurse

Operating Room Internship for Nurses

At LVHN, graduate nurses and registered nurses can join the perioperative services team even without previous experience in the operating room. LVHN’s OR internship will teach you everything you need to know about being a fully functioning scrub and circulating nurse.

Learn about the OR internship

Graduate Nurses and Newly Licensed Nurses

Graduate nurses learn from knowledgeable, experienced educators and preceptors and apply skills in a specialized clinical setting. LVHN Nurse Residency Program is the first nurse residency program in Pennsylvania to receive “Accreditation with Distinction” from the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

Learn about opportunities for new graduates