RN - Recovery PACU
RN - Recovery PACU
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INR INR 2200000 - 4000000
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Job Description
Job Title: RN Recovery (PACU)
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
- Provide nursing care in the Preop and PACU settings ensuring patient safety and comfort during recovery.
- Monitor patients in Phase 1 and Phase 2 recovery assessing vital signs and levels of consciousness.
- Maintain a nursepatient ratio of 1:1 for admissions in Preop and up to 5 for discharges; PACU ratio of 1:2 escalating to 1:1 for airway management.
- Administer medications and treatments as prescribed adhering to protocols and safety standards.
- Collaborate with anesthesiologists surgeons and nursing staff to ensure optimal patient outcomes.
- Educate patients and their families on recovery processes and postoperative care.
- Document all assessments interventions and patient responses accurately in the electronic medical record (EMR).
Unit Details
- Preop Beds: 10 beds
- PACU Beds: 4 beds
- Common Cases: Orthopedic procedures (hips knees shoulders) ortho spine TLIF hernias lap chole OB GYN procedures hysteroscopy hysterectomy urology (cysto prostate) ENT cases pediatric cases (tubes tonsils adenoids) endoscopy.
Requirements
- Current Registered Nurse (RN) license in Washington.
- Required Certifications:
- Basic Life Support (BLS)
- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
- Minimum of insert years years of nursing experience in recovery or critical care preferred.
- Strong critical care skills and knowledge of cardiac rhythms.
- Familiarity with Meditech EMR preferred.
Additional Information
- Charge Nurse/House Supervisor: Charge nurse for both PACU and outpatient; typically does not take patient assignments. Coordinator available as needed.
- Respiratory Therapy Equipment: No vents; patients on vents go directly to ICU.
- ICU Recovery: ICU patients do not recover in PACU.
- RN Responsibilities: RNs are responsible for reading cardiac strips.
anesthesia,collaboration,basic life support (bls),critical care nursing,patient monitoring,advanced cardiac life support (acls),patient education,electronic medical record (emr) management,rnp,medication administration
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