RN - PACU

Cincinnati Children's

13d•Onsite

About The Position

The RN - PACU position at Cincinnati Children's focuses on providing exceptional patient care within the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU). This role requires a strong clinical judgment, systems thinking, and a commitment to interprofessional practice. The nurse will be responsible for synthesizing data, anticipating patient needs, collaborating with families and healthcare providers, and promoting a healing environment. Key aspects of the role include coordinating care, ensuring regulatory compliance, advocating for patients and families, and contributing to a culture of continuous improvement and innovation. The position emphasizes age-specific and culturally inclusive care, shared decision-making, and professional development through clinical inquiry and performance review. The nurse will also be involved in precepting peers and students, and leading initiatives to enhance patient outcomes and safety.

Requirements

BSN from ACEN, CCNE or NLN CNEA accredited institution or MSN required.
5+ years related experience.
Active Ohio RN License. May be required to obtain other state licensure.
Active certification and some require specialty certification.

Responsibilities

Synthesizes and interprets multiple sources of data; uses past experiences to anticipate problems; seeks interprofessional collaboration; recognizes and responds to complex situations.
Leads efforts to improve documentation of the plan of care, care delivered, and outcomes of care.
Has innate awareness of the patient and family's current and future needs, and fully engages them in the plan of care.
Collaborates with family, other health care providers and community resources to develop comprehensive plans of care.
Caring practices follow the patient's and family's lead; orchestrates processes to ensure patient/family's comfort and concerns are addressed.
Promotes a healing environment for all health outcomes, including death.
Expertly integrates age specific concepts into patient care, considers both the patient's chronological age and developmental level.
Using self-management strategies, develops care goals and actions in partnerships with patients and families.
Creatively modifies or develops patient and family education programs.
Integrates patient/family education throughout delivery of care; evaluates effectiveness using teach back methods and by observing behavioral changes related to learning.
Integrates strategies in the plan of care that support the patient's and family's transition to home.
Knows when and how to negotiate and navigate through the system on behalf of patients and families through care coordination.
Intervenes and leads others to change systems and processes as appropriate to support optimal patient outcomes.
Sustains an extensive understanding of regulatory requirements and accreditation standards.
Works with managers to lead efforts to meet and sustain the regulatory compliance efforts of the department and hospital.
Monitors and assists others to comply with safety and departmental policies and procedures.
Ensures individual certifications and Safety College requirements are fulfilled in a timely basis.
Is well-informed of CCHMCs processes and compliance with CMS standards and assertively communicates safety and compliance concerns to leadership team members.
Effectively coordinates team care delivery while in the role of charge nurse; anticipating planning for and mitigating unexpected circumstances.
Demonstrates consistent integration of the Interprofessional Practice Model (IPM) in all aspects of practice.
Sustain a working understanding of regulatory requirements and accreditation standards.
Support leadership in Compliance efforts to meet and sustain the regulatory compliance efforts of the department and hospital.
Be mindful and judicious in monitoring safety and departmental policies and procedures.
Ensure all individual certifications and Safety College requirements are fulfilled in a timely basis.
Work with department managers, nurse council and magnet representatives to identify and share safety best practices.
Be mindful of CCHMCs processes and compliance with CMS standards and freely communicate safety and compliance concerns to leadership team members.
Works on behalf of patient, family, and community; advocates from patient/family perspective, whether similar to or different from personal values; suspends rules - patient and family drive moral decision-making; empowers the patient and family to speak for/represent themselves; achieves mutuality within patient/professional relationships.
Uses inclusive resources available both internally and in the community to enhance the experience of care for the various patient populations.
Appreciates and incorporates differences, including alternative therapies into care; tailors care to the extent possible.
Demonstrates efforts to grow self and others in cultural competence.
Invites inclusive resources when appropriate to optimize patient outcomes.
Interacts confidently by promoting and expecting collaborative behavior in others.
Mentors others to respect the contribution of the entire team.
Is able to lead others to work collaboratively valuing the contributions of the various disciplines in patient/practice issues.
Demonstrates leadership in the shared governance structure at the cluster or divisional level councils, committees, task forces or projects.
Serves as chair for councils, committees, task forces or project work.
Improves, deviates from, or individualizes standards and guidelines for particular patient situations or populations; questions and/or evaluates current practice based on patients' responses, review of the literature, research and education/learning; acquires knowledge and skills needed to address questions arising in practice and improve patient care.
Creates practice changes through research utilization and experiential learning.
Assists with development of competence in peers; formally, by precepting new employees, and informally, by sharing knowledge at the point-of-care.
Demonstrates awareness of unit competency needs, providing leadership to improve competence of staff.
Uses self-appraisal performance review and peer review, including annual goal setting, for assurance of competence and professional development to promote safe and ethical practice using the nursing process.
Precepts nursing peers and students.
Facilitates learning for members of the healthcare team and the community.
Takes a leadership role in working with department managers, nurse council and magnet representatives to identify, share, implement and evaluate safety best practices.
Consistently integrates age specific and culturally inclusive concepts into patient care, taking into consideration both the patient's chronological age and developmental functioning.