Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Salary:

Position: Perioperative PACU/Preop Registered Nurse

Shift: PRN

Required Education and Experience:
1. Minimum associate degree in nursing.
2. Current, valid certification in the state of Georgia as Registered Nurse.
3. Current, valid AHA Healthcare Provider training (BCLS and ACLS).

Preferred Education and Experience:
1. Bachelors degree in nursing.
2. Experience working as a registered nurse in a critical care environment.
3. Experience in the surgical environment of at least 1 year PACU.

Summary/Objective:
The perioperative PACU/Preop registered nurse position is responsible for rendering nursing care in assigned area in terms of individualized patient needs with recognized nursing techniques, procedures, and established standards based on the scope of nursing. Promotes the physical and mental health of patients by applying the nursing processes. This position is a member of the interdisciplinary team for patient care.

Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential function.

1. Consults and coordinates with health care team members to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care plans.
2. Ensures all requirements in the patients chart are met prior to processing for surgery.
3. Administers prescribed medications and evaluates responses to treatments/interventions.
4. Maintains an accurate record of all patients care in the pre/post operative record.
5. Appropriately manages patients pain and nausea with appropriate reassessments.
6. Provides care for a wide variety of medical patients; including pre- and post-surgery patients.
7. Initiates patient education plan, as prescribed by physician. Teaches patients and significant others how to manage their illness/injury by explaining post-treatment home care needs.
8. Monitors vital signs, recognizes emergencies, and notifies the appropriate personnel.
9. Explains discharge instructions to patient, family, responsible adult.
10. Prepares and restocks recovery area.
11. Changes dressings, inserts catheters, and starts IVs.
12. Records all care information concisely, accurately, completely, in a timely manner, in the appropriate format, and on the appropriate forms.
13. Helps coordinate any pre-operative/post-operative needs of the patient.
14. Responsible for following physician written orders and implements orders as soon as possible.
15. Ensures economical use of supplies and equipment.
16. Determine when patients are ready to move to Phase II recovery.

Competencies:
1. Customer/Patient Focus.
2. Ethical conduct.
3. Flexibility.
4. Accuracy.
5. Thoroughness.
6. Time Management.
7. Initiative.
8. Personal Effectiveness/Credibility.
9. Stress Management/Composure.
10. Teamwork Orientation.
11. Technical Capacity.
12. Communication Proficiency.
13. Leadership.
14. Learning Orientation.

Supervisory Responsibility:
This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Work Environment:
This position operates in a health care setting. This role requires regular walking to various locations around the hospital. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles and some mechanical equipment. Theemployee is occasionally exposed to a variety of patient conditions and elements. The noise level is moderate to quiet.

Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear.

This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing all day. The employee must frequently lift or move objects and patients weighing over 50 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:
This is a PRN position in a health care facility open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Working during inclement weather may be required. Shifts may vary, but working hours may be up to approximately 12 hours.
As PRN, this position requires working at least two shifts per month.

Other Duties:
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing ofactivities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee of the job. Duties,responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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