RN PreOp PACU II - Covenant High Plains Surgery Center

SCA Health•Lubbock, TX

About The Position

SCA Health is hiring a Registered Nurse (RN) PreOp PACU for Covenant High Plains Surgery Center. The RN promotes SCA Health’s mission, vision, and values and provides individualized preoperative and postoperative perianesthesia care. The role includes assessing patients’ physical and mental status, interpreting monitor information, planning and implementing care, supporting recovery from different types of anesthesia, managing pain and medications, educating patients and support persons, protecting patient rights and privacy, evaluating outcomes, and coordinating care with teammates and other disciplines. The RN also documents care, participates in quality improvement and safety activities, maintains competencies, and performs other assigned duties.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
At least one year of preoperative or PACU experience.
Medical/surgical nursing experience.
Current state licensure in good standing to practice.
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.
If 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 the mission, vision, and values of SCA Health.
Assess patients’ preoperative and postoperative status at intervals specified by facility or organizational policies, including cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological, hemodynamic, pain, comfort, and mental status.
Interpret information accurately from noninvasive and invasive monitors.
Apply applicable patient-transfer and discharge scoring criteria accurately 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-system function, fluid and electrolyte balance, and normothermia.
Protect patients from infection and manage comorbid conditions and prescribed fluids.
Assess patients’ or support persons’ knowledge and provide education about expected psychosocial responses, nutrition, medications, pain and comfort, wound care, and procedural outcomes.
Involve patients or designated support persons in decisions about perioperative care and rehabilitation.
Protect patient rights, dignity, privacy, and confidentiality, and provide age-specific, culturally competent, ethical care within legal standards.
Provide consistent and comparable care regardless of setting.
Evaluate patient progress toward outcomes and transfer care as needed.
Give accurate, concise, and pertinent hand-off reports to teammates.
Delegate tasks in accordance with applicable nursing practice requirements, laws, and job descriptions.
Document nursing care completely, accurately, and legibly.
Collaborate with other disciplines as needed.
Participate in quality review, performance improvement projects, the performance appraisal process, 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 and perform other duties as assigned.