PACU Nurse

CommonSpirit Health • Prescott Valley, AZ

13h

About The Position

As our Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery. Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes. To thrive in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement. Performs assessment/data collection in an on-going systematic manner, focusing on physiologic, psychosocial, cultural, spiritual and cognitive status; also nutrition, pain, patient/family education, family involvement and patient advocacy. Formulates a goal-directed plan of care that is prioritized and based on determined nursing diagnosis and patient outcomes. Implements care in a thorough, skillful and consistent manner. Establishes priorities for patient care based on essential patient needs and available unit resources of time, personnel, equipment, and supplies. Evaluates effectiveness of care given by health care team members. Effectively communicate with patients, staff and providers.

Requirements

• Minimum Associate Degree of Nursing
• One year of general RN care experience
• Valid compact state or Arizona RN license
• American Heart Association Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support
• American Heart Association Basic Life Support for the healthcare provider
• American Heart Association Pediatric Advanced Life Support
• Demonstrates competency in basic EKG skills by passing EKG test or successfully completing basic EKG class/modules within six months of position

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
• Two years of medical/surgical, progressive care, or critical care experience

Responsibilities

• Performs assessment/data collection in an on-going systematic manner, focusing on physiologic, psychosocial, cultural, spiritual and cognitive status; also nutrition, pain, patient/family education, family involvement and patient advocacy.
• Formulates a goal-directed plan of care that is prioritized and based on determined nursing diagnosis and patient outcomes.
• Implements care in a thorough, skillful and consistent manner.
• Establishes priorities for patient care based on essential patient needs and available unit resources of time, personnel, equipment, and supplies.
• Evaluates effectiveness of care given by health care team members.
• Effectively communicate with patients, staff and providers.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: Associate degree