Registered Nurse - RN - PACU - Full Time - 10:00 am to 8:30 pm
About The Position
The Registered Nurse in the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) provides direct, safe patient care using the nursing process and coordinates care for assigned patients during a shift to promote clinical outcomes. The nurse works with an interdisciplinary team to care for a variety of complex patients, communicates effectively with patients, families, and colleagues, and uses feedback to improve clinical practice. This role assumes a beginning bedside leadership role and participates in shared governance, unit councils, and nursing quality activities. New graduate clinical RNs focus on developing knowledge and skills and progressing toward caring for increasingly complex patients, with consultation and mentoring from more experienced clinicians.
Requirements
- Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in Georgia.
- Associate's degree, ADN, or diploma.
- At least 1 year of RN experience, demonstrated competence in RN I performance expectations, or meeting experience requirements upon hire.
- Ability to provide safe, effective, and efficient care that meets population-specific guidelines.
- Effective communication, prioritization, and problem-recognition skills, with the ability to use evidence-based practice.
- Basic computer skills necessary to operate unit computer systems.
Nice To Haves
- Previous specialty experience.
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN).
Responsibilities
- Provide safe, effective, efficient, population-specific patient care and coordinate care for assigned patients.
- Participate as a full partner on the care team and respond to care team members’ requests for assistance.
- Lead interdisciplinary rounds to support appropriate care and smooth transitions across the continuum.
- Use the nursing process to address patients’ and families’ clinical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs.
- Identify clinical, social, safety, psychological, ethical, and spiritual issues through critical thinking.
- Delegate care appropriately while remaining accountable for the quality of care provided.
- Communicate clearly with the healthcare team, including physicians and advanced practice providers, and use safety and error-prevention tools.
- Seek feedback, improve clinical practice, apply evidence-based practice, and identify quality-improvement opportunities.
- Support students as a resource and take responsibility for ongoing professional development.
- Support unit-based shared governance, quality initiatives, and activities focused on patient experience, employee engagement, and nurse-sensitive indicators.
- Promote respectful, healthy relationships and value the contributions and skills of team members.
- Model safe work hours, time management, efficiency, and stewardship; participate in unit-based self-care activities.
- Maintain de-escalation training certification when appropriate for the work unit.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Associate degree
