Pre & Post Staff RN (Same Day Surgery Unit)

Capital Health (US)

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Capital Health is seeking a Pre & Post Staff RN for its Same Day Surgery Unit. This role involves preparing patients for surgery through assessment, documentation, and education, coordinating care to ensure readiness for procedures, and providing safe and efficient Phase I & II care for post-anesthesia patients. The position operates on a 4x10-hour weekday schedule from 9 am to 7:30 pm. The RN will deliver quality care using the nursing process, ensure patient safety, provide pain management support, mobilize resources for patient recovery, and offer information and coping mechanisms to patients and families. Responsibilities also include formulating discharge plans, anticipating age-specific healthcare needs, ensuring effective handoff communication, identifying issues related to medication management education, and modifying patient care regimens as needed. The role requires facilitating appropriate responses from the healthcare team, collaborating with case managers and providers, and demonstrating the ability to manage unit-wide needs, including staffing adjustments. The RN is expected to attend educational sessions to enhance assessment skills and participate in unit-based and hospital-wide committees, performance improvement activities, DNV readiness preparation, and efforts to achieve successful patient satisfaction scores.

Requirements

Associate's degree or graduate from an accredited school of nursing.
None. Previous nursing experience preferred.
AHA BLS - Healthcare Provider
Registered Nurse - NJ
Requires TNCC (or must obtain within 1 year of hire) AND 8 hours of Trauma related Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) contact hours if assigned to: RMC ICU/CCU, RMC Surgical Trauma Unit, RMC PACU, Emergency Department (all campuses)
Requires NIH Stroke Scale Certification (or must obtain by end of orientation) AND 8 hours of Stroke related Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) contact hours if assigned to: Critical Care, Emergency Department, Neuro Units, Cardiology Inpatient at Hopewell, Peds/Peds ED.
Requires ACLS (or must obtain within 6 months of hire date) if assigned to: Critical Care/Intermediate/Telemetry, Emergency Rooms, Pediatrics/Pediatrics Emergency Room, Labor & Delivery, Surgical Services (not to include Perioperative), Interventional Procedures, Observation.
Requires NRP (or must obtain within 6 months of hire date) if assigned to: Maternity Services, Emergency Room RMC/Deborah
Requires PALS (or must obtain within 6 months of hire date) if assigned to: Emergency Rooms, Infant Follow-Up, Surgical Services (only PACU & Same Day Surgery), Pediatrics/Pediatric ED.
ENPC accepted in lieu of PALs for Adult Emergency Room
Possesses strong problem solving and decision-making skills.
Demonstrates high interpersonal skills at an individual as well as team level.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Adjusts quickly and reacts positively to change.
Considerable knowledge of principles, practices and current trends in nursing.
Possesses good work ethic.
Demonstrates knowledge of nursing skills, hospital practices, procedures and standards.

Nice To Haves

Previous nursing experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Prepare patients for surgery including assessment, documentation, and patient education
Coordinate care to ensure patients are ready for procedural start times
Provide safe, efficient Phase I & II care for post-anesthesia patients
Delivers quality care to patients through a team effort in working with others through the nursing process of assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation.
Assures patient safety by executing appropriate policies & procedures.
Provides appropriate support for pain management, pharmacological and non-pharmacological measures.
Assist patient/family in identifying individualized comfort measures.
Follows up on internal resources to determine the outcome of interventions completed by other departments.
Mobilizes resources in complex cases to maximize patients control and participation over his/her own recovery.
Provides information and interpretation of the patient's condition and offers coping mechanisms.
Provides these to both patient and family.
Assesses how much information a patient wants and needs while utilizing a vocabulary and approach that enables the patient to successfully process the care and course of treatment.
Formulates and documents a discharge plan that maximizes the patient's ability to continue with meaningful life activities.
Integrates assessment and diagnostic information with intuition to foresee potential age-specific healthcare needs.
Anticipates patients' needs.
Ensures handoff communication and includes a report in terms of the situations most likely to develop and the problems awaiting patient.
Identifies proactively issues to be resolved related to patient education for medication management.
Provide discharge planning which includes instructions on discharge medications.
Uses discretionary judgment to appropriately modify patient care regimens.
Facilitates appropriate response from other health care team members to provide quality and safe care.
Explores multiple aspects of care regimen with case manager and health care providers to promote appropriate resolution.
Displays ability to see the entire unit and is self-motivated to develop a plan for adjusting staffing patterns as needed.
Attends educational sessions when offered in areas that will improve one's ability to assess the needs on one's respective department. These would include, but, not limited to: charge nurse workshops, leadership training, critical decision making, prioritization of workload, etc.
Plans and provides unique and individualized comfort measures while utilizing intuitive and innovative approaches which are scientifically sound and are a result of evidenced based practice.
Participates in unit based and/or hospital-based committees.
Participates in performance improvement activities at the unit and/or hospital wide level.
Participates actively in the preparation DNV readiness.
Participates in unit level effort to achieve successful Patient Satisfaction scores and has an awareness of the HCAAPS measurements.
Performs any other related duties as required or assigned.