Registered Nurse PreOp PACU II - Fellowship Surgery Center

SCA Health•Mount Laurel Township, NJ

About The Position

SCA Health is hiring a Registered Nurse (RN) PreOp PACU for Fellowship Surgery Center. The RN assesses patients’ preoperative and postoperative status, develops and implements individualized perianesthesia plans of care, and evaluates progress toward expected outcomes. Care includes recovery from general, monitored anesthesia care, regional, and local anesthesia; acute pain and comfort management; safe medication administration; protection from injury and infection; and maintenance of patients’ systems and fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balances at or above baseline levels. The RN educates patients or their designated support persons, involves them in care decisions, protects their rights and privacy, and provides age-specific, culturally competent, ethical care. The role includes accurate documentation, hand-off reporting and care transfers, collaboration with other disciplines, delegation in accordance with applicable requirements, participation in quality improvement and team activities, and maintaining competencies and professional growth. Compensation is USD $44.00–$46.00 per hour.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
One year of preoperative or PACU experience required.
Medical/surgical nursing experience.
Current state licensure to practice in good standing.
Complete Basic Life Support (BLS) or Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) within 90 days of employment, or provide documentation of current certification.
Complete Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) within 90 days of employment, or provide documentation of current certification.
If pediatric care is within the facility’s scope of services, complete Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) within 90 days of employment, or provide documentation of current certification.

Responsibilities

Promote SCA Health’s mission, vision, and values.
Assess patients’ preoperative and postoperative status at intervals required by facility or organizational policies, including cardiovascular, respiratory and airway, neurological, hemodynamic, pain and comfort, and mental status.
Interpret information accurately from noninvasive and invasive monitors.
Apply relevant patient transfer and discharge scoring systems accurately according to organizational policy.
Develop individualized perianesthesia plans of care and implement appropriate interventions.
Prepare for and manage patient recovery from general, monitored anesthesia care, regional, and local anesthesia.
Protect patients from injury related to positioning, thermal sources, and extraneous objects.
Communicate patients’ current status throughout the perianesthesia continuum of care.
Provide acute pain and comfort management as needed.
Administer medications safely and correctly using the eight rights of medication administration.
Maintain wound integrity and tissue perfusion at or above baseline levels.
Maintain patients’ body systems and fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balances at or above baseline levels.
Help ensure patients return to normothermia at the conclusion of the immediate postoperative period and protect them from infection.
Manage patients’ comorbid conditions and fluids as applicable and prescribed.
Assess patients’ or support persons’ knowledge and provide education about expected psychosocial responses, nutrition, medications, pain and comfort, wound care, and expected responses to procedures.
Involve patients or their designated support persons in decisions about perioperative care and rehabilitation.
Protect patients’ rights, dignity, privacy, and confidentiality, and provide age-specific, culturally competent and ethical care within legal standards.
Evaluate patient progress toward outcomes and transfer care as needed.
Provide accurate, concise, and pertinent hand-off reports to teammates.
Delegate tasks according to applicable practice acts, nursing or professional registration requirements, laws, and job descriptions.
Document nursing care completely, accurately, and legibly.
Collaborate effectively with other disciplines.
Participate in quality review, performance improvement projects, performance appraisal, team meetings, trainings, and daily safety huddles.
Use problem-solving and conflict-resolution skills to foster effective work relationships.
Maintain required competencies and pursue professional growth.
Comply with facility policies and procedures and demonstrate fiscal responsibility.
Perform other duties as assigned.