Registered Nurse PreOp PACU II - Maplewood Surgery Center

SCA Health•Saint Paul, MN

21h

About The Position

SCA Health is hiring a Registered Nurse (RN) PreOp PACU for Maplewood Surgery Center. The nurse promotes SCA Health’s mission, vision, and values while providing perianesthesia care. Responsibilities include assessing patients before and after procedures, interpreting monitor information, developing and implementing individualized plans of care, managing recovery from different types of anesthesia, supporting pain and comfort needs, educating patients and designated support people, and protecting patient rights, dignity, privacy, and confidentiality. The role also includes evaluating patient progress, transferring care and providing hand-off reports, documenting care, collaborating with other disciplines, participating in quality improvement and team activities, maintaining competencies, and complying with facility policies and procedures.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
One year of preoperative or PACU experience.
Medical/surgical nursing experience.
Current state licensure to practice in good standing.
Current BLS/BCLS certification, or successful completion within 90 days of employment.
Current ACLS certification, or successful completion of the course within 90 days of employment.
When pediatric care is included in the facility’s scope of services, current PALS certification or successful completion of the course within 90 days of employment.

Responsibilities

Promote SCA Health’s mission, vision, and values.
Assess patients’ preoperative and postoperative status at required intervals, including cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological, hemodynamic, pain and comfort, and mental status needs.
Interpret information accurately from noninvasive and invasive monitors.
Apply relevant scoring systems and discharge criteria for patient transfer according to organizational policy.
Develop and implement individualized perianesthesia plans of care.
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 patient status throughout the perianesthesia continuum of care.
Provide acute pain and comfort management as needed.
Administer medications safely using the eight rights of medication administration.
Perform interventions to maintain wound integrity, tissue perfusion, body systems, fluid and electrolyte balance, and normothermia.
Protect patients from infection and manage comorbid conditions and prescribed fluids.
Assess patient or support-person knowledge and provide education about expected psychosocial responses, nutrition, medications, pain and comfort, wounds, and expected procedural responses.
Involve patients or designated support people in decisions about perioperative care and rehabilitation.
Provide age-specific, culturally competent, ethical care within legal standards and protect patient rights, dignity, privacy, and confidentiality.
Evaluate patient progress toward outcomes and transfer care as needed.
Provide accurate, concise, pertinent hand-off reports.
Delegate tasks in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and job descriptions.
Document nursing care completely, accurately, and legibly.
Collaborate with other disciplines and participate in quality review and performance improvement projects.
Participate in performance appraisal, team meetings, training, and daily safety huddles.
Use problem-solving and conflict-resolution skills to support effective working relationships.
Maintain required competencies and pursue professional growth.
Demonstrate fiscal responsibility, comply with facility policies and procedures, and perform other duties as assigned.