Registered Nurse PACU
About The Position
Responsible for providing professional nursing care for SIH patients. This role involves 3 x 12-hour shifts from 9 am to 9:30 pm, with call required on weekends. The nurse will assess patients' mental, physical, and spiritual needs, establish a compassionate environment, and provide emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients and families. The position requires assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating individual care plans in collaboration with the multidisciplinary health care team, providing health teaching and counseling, and demonstrating clinical judgment and critical thinking to recognize and report changes in patient condition. Responsibilities also include accurate and timely documentation, contributing to policy development for patient safety and quality of care, supervising and delegating tasks to licensed practical nurses and/or unlicensed assistants, serving as a patient advocate, timely completion of required education, competencies, and licensure, and floating to other SIH nursing units within competency level.
Requirements
- Associate, Diploma, Bachelor’s degree or Master’s in Nursing
- Current Illinois Registered Nurse license
- Current CPR/BLS Card
- Current ACLS card (within 6 months of hire)
- Current ACLS & PALS card (within 6 months of hire)
- TNCC or TNS (within 1 year of hire or residency graduation) - required effective 6/2026
- ECRN (within 24 months of hire of residency graduation) - required effective 6/2026
- ACLS, Fetal Monitoring – Monitoring, & NRP (within 6 months of hire)
- NRP (within 6 months of hire)
- NRP & PALS (within 6 months of hire)
- ONS CTC-Infusion Center: Fundamentals within first 6 months
- ONS Chemotherapy Certificate Course (within 1 year, renewed every 2 years)
- SJ-Infusion: Fundamentals within first 6 months, renewed every 2 years
- SJ-Infusion: ONS Chemotherapy Certificate (renewed every 2 years)
Nice To Haves
- Technical Experience: NA
Responsibilities
- Assess patients to determine mental, physical, and spiritual needs
- Establish a compassionate environment to provide emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patient and families
- Assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates an individual plan of care in collaboration with the multidisciplinary health care team.
- Provide in health teaching and counseling to promote, attain, and maintain the optimum health level of patients
- Demonstrate ability to use clinical judgement in conjunction with critical thinking to recognize, act upon, and report changes in patient condition.
- Complete, accurate and timely documentation in patient medical record
- Provide input into the development of policies and procedures to support patient safety and quality of care
- Supervision and delegation responsibilities of licensed practical nurse and/or unlicensed assistant personnel
- Serve as an advocate for the patient by communicating and collaborating with other health service professionals
- Timely completion of required education, competencies, and licensure.
- Float to other SIH nursing units within competency level
Benefits
- Compensation (Commensurate with experience): $31.25 - $49.06
- Benefits Guide/Plan Information available at http://www.sih.net/careers/benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
