Registered Nurse (RN) PACU

Northwell Health • Valley Stream, NY

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About The Position

The Registered Nurse (RN) PACU plans, implements, and evaluates nursing regimens for assigned patients and serves as the primary nurse in delivering nursing care. The RN collaborates with physicians and other healthcare team members to meet patients’ total healthcare needs, carry out prescribed treatment regimens, and coordinate follow-up care.

The role includes assessing patients, documenting care and changes in condition, assisting with treatments and diagnostic procedures, maintaining patient safety and infection-control practices, educating patients and families, and supporting discharge planning. The nurse also contributes to patient-care evaluation and participates in assigned nursing or hospital committees.

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing.
• Current license to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse in New York State.
• If hired after September 1, 2010, must be enrolled in an accredited program within 24 months of employment and obtain a BSN within five years of the employment date.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing.
• Two or more years of ICU or PACU experience.

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate nursing care for assigned patients.
• Perform admission assessments and document them in nursing care plans and nurses’ notes.
• Reassess patients, including when their condition changes.
• Keep the supervisor or designee informed of changes in patient condition or treatment.
• Collaborate with healthcare team members when follow-up is necessary and when planning and carrying out treatment regimens.
• Explain procedures to patients before they are performed.
• Deliver care while respecting patients’ privacy and dignity.
• Respond rapidly and effectively to emergencies, managing self, patients, and other employees.
• Participate in unit performance-improvement activities to help evaluate patient care.
• Interpret and implement treatment regimens prescribed by physicians.
• Assist physicians and residents during treatments and diagnostic procedures.
• Observe and report patients’ conditions during treatments and procedures.
• Maintain a safe, clean, and noise-controlled environment to reduce patient stress and anxiety.
• Maintain patient safety precautions, including keeping side rails up and call lights and bedside stands within reach.
• Apply scientific principles when performing established nursing procedures.
• Promote a calm, quiet, and restful atmosphere and communicate with patients’ families or caretakers.
• Follow universal precautions and infection-control principles.
• Participate in patient education and explain patients’ conditions as indicated.
• Record, update, and communicate pertinent assessment information to healthcare team members and appropriate agencies.
• Identify and use health-teaching opportunities and available resources or materials.
• Provide early discharge planning, appropriate referrals, and home instructions to patients and caretakers.
• Evaluate teaching through patient or family feedback and document the results.
• Document observations, actions, treatments, activity, condition, and responses to medical and nursing interventions in the patient’s medical record, following Nursing Department policy.
• Attend nursing and hospital committees as assigned.
• Perform related duties as required.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: Associate degree