Registered Nurse PACU, FT Weekend Days - VWCH

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Lebanon, TN

16h

About The Position

The Registered Nurse in the Recovery Room is responsible for assessing, implementing, and evaluating care for patients within the facility. The position reports directly to the Clinical Director of the unit and works with nursing service colleagues, ancillary services, physicians, patients, and families. The nurse collaborates with the healthcare team to support quality care across the continuum and must be self-directed, quality-focused, and able to communicate interpersonally.

Requirements

Registered Nurse licensure.
Graduate of an approved discipline-specific program.
Relevant work experience listed as less than one year.
Ability to assess and evaluate patients, provide patient education, plan care, and use evidence-based practice.
Ability to work self-directed and maintain a quality focus.
Interpersonal communication skills.

Responsibilities

Collaborate in establishing the plan of care, coordinate and implement care delivery, and anticipate patient care needs across the continuum.
Analyze comprehensive information pertinent to patient care and management to determine nursing diagnoses.
Use the nursing process to evaluate patient progress toward goals and apply appropriate interventions to support effective outcomes.
Employ strategies that promote health and a safe, healthy environment.
Conduct patient interviews and physical examinations, recognize problems, and contact the patient's primary care provider and other healthcare team members as appropriate.
Provide patient education.
Anticipate resource needs, identify tasks, set priorities, schedule activities, meet deadlines, and organize work.
Manage multiple assignments, adapt to changing patient-care and area needs, and follow up to ensure problems and issues are resolved.
Search for evidence to answer clinical questions.