Acute Care RN - Post Anesthesia Care Unit - FT - 10:30a to 11p

About the role

Perioperative nursing is a specialty within the nursing profession that encompasses the care of individuals across the life span who are undergoing a surgical procedure or procedure requiring anesthesia. The role involves pre-procedure care, intraoperative and acute post-operative care, and uses a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to patient care.

Responsibilities

• Collections pertinent data and information relative to the patient, situation, or setting.
• Analyzes assessment data to determine actual or potential problems, and issues.
• Develops a collaborative plan encompassing strategies to achieve expected outcomes.
• Implements identified plan through coordination of care and employs strategies to promote health and wellness.
• Evaluates progress toward attainment of goals and outcomes.
• Utilizes Aldrete scoring system in the assessment of post anesthesia recovery.
• Affords appropriate interventions for airway, pain and nausea management.
• Educates patient on post operative discharge instructions.
• Delivers professional nursing care guided by Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring.
• Communicates effectively in all areas of professional practice.
• Mentors nurses new to their role for the purpose of ensuring successful enculturation, orientation, competence, and emotional support.
• Supports students to enhance their knowledge, skills, and abilities.
• Commits to lifelong learning through critical thinking, self-reflection, and inquiry for personal growth and development.
• Utilizes appropriate resources to plan, provide, and sustain evidence-based nursing services that are safe, effective, and financially responsible, and used judiciously.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science: Nursing (BSN).
• Registered Nurse - KSBN.
• Basic Life Support - BLS.

Qualifications

• Demonstrates awareness and sensitivity to rights of patient/significant other.
• Demonstrates awareness and application of safety issues.
• Demonstrates awareness of legal issues in all aspects of patient care and departmental functioning.
• Strives to manage situations in a manner, which minimizes risk to the patient and the institution.
• Demonstrates competency in selected psychomotor skills.
• Communicates effectively using verbal, non-verbal and written methods.
• Applies concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

Skills

• Adapts nursing process to include strict adherence to the surgical safety checklists, sterility, surgical counts and post-operative airway, pain and nausea management.
• Uses Aldrete scoring system in the assessment of post anesthesia recovery.
• Provides appropriate interventions for airway, pain and nausea management.
• Communicates effectively in all areas of professional practice.
• Supports students to enhance their knowledge, skills, and abilities.
• Commits to lifelong learning through critical thinking, self-reflection, and inquiry for personal growth and development.
• Utilizes appropriate resources to plan, provide, and sustain evidence-based nursing services that are safe, effective, and financially responsible, and used judiciously.

Benefits

• Remote Work Guidelines: Workspace is a quiet and distraction-free allowing the ability to comply with all security and privacy standards.
• Patient Facing: Position is Patient Facing.

Pay

Not specified

Schedule

Second Shift (Evenings - Less than 12 hours per shift)