PACU RN

• Integrate the nursing process and standards into daily practice
• Apply growth and development knowledge to interventions
• Provide care tailored to each patient's changing needs
• Deliver efficient, safe patient care during the critical period following anesthesia and invasive procedures
• Use the nursing process
• Delegate to and evaluate subordinate staff
• Coordinate support services
• Diagnostic and patient monitoring (detection and recognition of acute changes and escalation or concerns/critical results)
• Administration and monitoring therapeutic interventions and regimens (starting/maintaining intravenous therapies, administering medication per patients’ rights, preventing falls and skin breakdown and following policies in relation to safety measures)
• Effective management of rapidly changing situations (identifying, assessing and anticipating needs)
• Organization and work rule competencies (prioritizing, coordination and meeting multiple patient needs in a timely manner)
• Helping Role (consistently contribute to a healing environment, providing patient comfort and support for human dignity, serving as a patient advocate and building and maintaining a therapeutic environment
• Teaching-Coaching Function (assess and evaluates the patient’s readiness and ability to learn, effectively explains a patient’s condition and their interpretation of his or her illness)

• Associate Of Nursing Nursing or Equivalent, upon hire
• Registered Nurse: GA, upon hire
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support, within 6 - months
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support, upon hire

Bachelors Of Nursing Nursing or Equivalent, upon hire

• Health/dental/vision
• FSA
• Matching retirement plans
• Paid time off
• Tuition assistance
• Adoption assistance