Registered Nurse PreOp PACU II, Part-Time - Castle Rock Surgery Center

SCA Health•Castle Rock, CO

About The Position

SCA Health is hiring a Registered Nurse for PreOp and PACU care at Castle Rock Surgery Center. The role supports the organization’s mission, vision, and values while providing individualized perianesthesia care and protecting patients’ rights, dignity, privacy, and confidentiality. The nurse assesses and monitors patients before and after procedures, develops and implements plans of care, evaluates progress, and transfers care as needed. The position also involves patient and support-person education, collaboration with other disciplines, accurate documentation, participation in quality improvement and team activities, maintaining competencies, and pursuing professional growth. The stated pay range is USD $37.10 to $51.50 per hour.

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

Nice To Haves

Current PALS certification, or successful completion of a PALS course within 90 days of employment, when pediatric care is included in the facility’s scope of services.

Responsibilities

Promote SCA Health’s mission, vision, and values.
Assess patients’ preoperative and postoperative status at appropriate intervals, including cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological, hemodynamic, pain, comfort, and mental status.
Interpret information from noninvasive and invasive monitors and apply relevant knowledge of disease processes, anesthesia, and surgical or procedural interventions.
Apply the appropriate patient transfer or discharge scoring system and criteria according to organizational policy.
Develop and implement individualized perianesthesia plans of care, including preparing for and managing recovery from general, monitored anesthesia care, regional, and local anesthesia.
Protect patients from injury, infection, and other preventable harm; maintain wound integrity, tissue perfusion, normothermia, and system functions and balances at or above baseline levels as appropriate.
Communicate patient status throughout the perianesthesia continuum, provide acute pain and comfort management, administer medications safely, and manage fluids and comorbid conditions as prescribed or applicable.
Assess patients’ or designated support persons’ knowledge and provide education on psychosocial responses, nutrition, medications, pain and comfort, wound care, and expected procedure responses.
Involve patients or designated support persons in decisions about the perioperative plan of care and rehabilitation.
Provide age-specific, culturally competent, ethical care within legal standards and provide consistent, comparable care across settings.
Evaluate patient progress toward outcomes, transfer care as needed, and provide accurate, concise, pertinent hand-off reports.
Delegate tasks in accordance with applicable nursing practice laws, regulations, and job descriptions.
Document nursing care completely, accurately, and legibly.
Collaborate with other disciplines and participate in quality review, performance improvement, performance appraisals, 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.
Demonstrate fiscal responsibility, comply with facility policies and procedures, and perform other duties as assigned.