Registered Nurse PreOp PACU II - Maitland Surgery Center

SCA Health•Maitland, FL

18h

About The Position

SCA Health is hiring a Registered Nurse (RN) for PreOp/PACU care at Maitland Surgery Center. The role supports the organization’s mission, vision, and values while delivering individualized perianesthesia care across the preoperative and postoperative continuum. The nurse assesses patients at intervals according to facility policies, develops and implements care plans, evaluates progress toward outcomes, and transfers care as needed. Care includes preparing patients for and managing recovery from general, monitored anesthesia care, regional, and local anesthesia; monitoring patients’ systems and status; managing pain, comfort, fluids, medications, wounds, infection prevention, temperature, and comorbid conditions; and educating patients or their designated support persons. The nurse protects patients’ rights, dignity, privacy, and confidentiality, provides age-specific and culturally competent care, documents nursing care, collaborates with other disciplines, and participates in quality improvement, training, safety huddles, and professional growth.

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 of a BLS/BCLS course within 90 days of employment.
Current ACLS certification, or successful completion of an ACLS 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 a PALS course within 90 days of employment.

Responsibilities

Promote SCA Health’s mission, vision, and values.
Assess preoperative and postoperative patient status at intervals according to facility policies, including cardiovascular, respiratory and airway, neurological, hemodynamic, pain and comfort, and mental status.
Interpret information from noninvasive and invasive monitors.
Apply the relevant scoring system and discharge criteria for patient transfer as defined by 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 and provide accurate, concise, pertinent hand-off reports.
Provide acute pain and comfort management and administer medications safely using the 8-rights of medication administration.
Maintain wound integrity and tissue perfusion, and perform interventions to maintain or restore body systems and fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balances to baseline levels.
Ensure patients are at or returned to normothermia at the conclusion of the immediate postoperative period and protect patients from infection.
Manage comorbid conditions and fluids as prescribed.
Assess patient or support-person knowledge and provide education on expected psychosocial responses, nutrition, medications, pain and comfort, wound care, and expected responses to procedures.
Involve patients or designated support persons in decisions about perioperative care and rehabilitation.
Protect patient rights, dignity, privacy, and confidentiality; provide age-specific, culturally competent, ethical care within legal standards.
Evaluate progress toward outcomes and transfer care as needed.
Delegate tasks in accordance with applicable nursing 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 appraisals, team meetings, trainings, and daily safety huddles.
Use problem-solving and conflict-resolution skills to foster 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.