Registered Nurse RN Pre and Post Operative Care Unit Nights

Banner Health • Ottawa, OH

5d • Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse in the Pre and Post Operative Care Unit prepares patients for surgery and cares for patients during phase 1 and phase 2 post-anesthesia recovery. Preoperative duties include completing assessments, starting IVs, ensuring consents and paperwork are complete, administering preoperative medications, and assisting with nerve blocks. The RN works with a cohesive team to support patient outcomes.

The position assesses, plans, implements, evaluates, and documents nursing care in accordance with organizational policies and professional nursing standards. The RN is accountable for the quality of nursing services delivered by themselves or others under their direction and uses specialized knowledge and judgment to plan and provide care suited to patients’ physical and developmental ages.

This is a full-time night-shift role scheduled for four 10-hour shifts, Monday through Thursday, 9:00 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. The schedule does not require weekend work. A 15% night-shift differential is offered. The position is based at Banner Wyoming Medical Center in Casper, Wyoming, a 249-bed facility and level 2 trauma center serving the state.

Requirements

• Current, valid RN license in the state of practice, a temporary or interim RN license in the state of practice, or compact RN licensure for the current state of practice.
• BLS certification.
• Relate the experience, training, and education needed to perform the job during the interview process.
• Maintain clinical performance competencies appropriate to the practice area through annual validations.
• Additional certification or continuing education may be required depending on the practice area.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in the clinical area for which the applicant is applying.
• Bachelor’s degree.
• Professional certification.
• Additional related education and/or experience.

Responsibilities

• Assess patients’ physical, psychological, social, spiritual, educational, developmental, cultural, and discharge-planning needs; review patient history, assessments, diagnostics, and laboratory data, and report abnormal results to appropriate clinicians.
• Formulate and revise individualized plans of care and discharge plans using assessment data and input from patients, families, and the health care team.
• Provide direct patient care and coordinate, delegate, and supervise care in accordance with physician orders, nursing plans, policies, standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Prepare patients for surgery by completing assessments, starting IVs, verifying consents and paperwork, administering preoperative medications, and assisting with nerve blocks.
• Provide phase 1 and phase 2 post-anesthesia recovery care.
• Evaluate patient and family responses to care and teaching, assess progress toward goals, and revise care plans as needed.
• Document assessment, planning, interventions, evaluations, patient responses, and physician orders accurately and in a timely manner.
• Communicate patient status and care information to other caregivers and collaborate with multidisciplinary health care providers.
• Use available evidence in providing care and may participate in research activities within clinical practice.
• Participate in shared leadership and contribute to staff, patient, student, family, and visitor education, orientation, role development, precepting, and mentoring as appropriate.
• Contribute to safe, effective, equitable, and timely care and participate in improvement of nursing quality indicators and outcomes.
• In some roles, supervise department staff and workflow.

Benefits

• 15% night-shift differential

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed