BHEC Pre-Op/PACU RN

MEDBRIDGE DEVELOPMENT COMPANY•Beverly Hills, CA

7d•$52 - $65•Onsite

About The Position

The Pre-Op/PACU RN provides nursing care to surgical patients during the preoperative and postoperative phases. The role involves assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating patient care, including safe, knowledgeable, compassionate, educational, individualized, and goal-directed care during the immediate post-anesthetic period. The nurse applies physiologic and psychosocial knowledge and skills to promote, restore, and maintain patients’ physiological processes in a safe, comfortable, and effective environment, while helping patients adapt to their surgical experiences. The nurse supports the center’s policies and procedures and nursing philosophy. The role also requires professional accountability, patient advocacy, accurate and timely documentation, confidentiality, and collaboration with patients, families, and colleagues. The RN may assist in the operating room as needed and must meet the center’s needs as required by the surgical schedule.

Requirements

Current RN licensure.
Current BLS certification.
ACLS certification.
PALS certification, if applicable.
Full command of spoken and written English.
Willingness to serve as a patient advocate during preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative phases of surgical intervention.
Ability to meet the center’s needs as required by the surgical schedule, including when overtime hours and schedule changes become necessary.
Ability to lift 25 pounds without assistance may be expected.
Must obtain assistance when moving patients who cannot assist, unless the patient is in a wheelchair or on a gurney.
May be required to push patients in wheelchairs or on gurneys and must obtain assistance when needed.

Responsibilities

Assess patients’ physical status through observation and interaction, and assess their psychosocial and spiritual needs and those of significant others.
Review patient charts, consult with the peri-operative nurse who interviewed the patient, and understand and interpret diagnostic measures such as laboratory results, chest X-rays, and EKGs.
Plan for a safe, efficient, effective, and clean environment for preoperative and postoperative care.
Identify patient problems, plan actions to address them, establish individual patient goals, and communicate those goals to others involved in care.
Ensure patients have appropriate discharge instructions, are accompanied by a responsible adult upon discharge, and have the physician’s telephone number for post-surgical needs during the first 24 hours.
Implement nursing care and resolve identified patient problems using professional nursing judgment.
Use supplies, equipment, and resources cost-effectively without compromising care, and reduce infection risks through infection-control and environmental-safety practices.
Report and document information accurately and promptly, and use safe methods when handling equipment.
Evaluate nursing interventions and care plans, modify interventions when needed, and evaluate personal nursing practice to identify opportunities for professional growth.
Maintain appropriate communication, share workload cooperatively, convey patient-care information clearly, and seek guidance or assistance when needed.
Maintain nursing competence, practice within the law, protect confidential patient and center communications and documents, exercise sound judgment, advocate for patients, and follow safety rules.
Know the location and use of recovery-room and surgery equipment and supplies, and monitor emergency equipment.
Maintain knowledge of anesthetic agents, emergency drugs, potential complications, and emergency treatment of complications; follow recovery-room guidelines.
Comply with HIPAA privacy requirements and file incident reports for unusual events involving patients or staff, including specified injuries, reactions, disruptive behavior, and alleged abuse or harassment.
Report incidences or alleged incidences of abuse, harassment, or injury to self, other employees, or patients occurring at the center or relating to the center.
Assist in the O.R. as necessary.