Registered Nurse – Circulator / PACU

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Complete accurate preoperative histories, physicals, and nursing assessments, including allergies/sensitivities, medications, and past medical and surgical history.
• Verify medical records, consents, physician orders, and required documentation before surgery.
• Educate patients and families on surgical procedures, preoperative preparation, and postoperative instructions.
• Circulate in the operating room, serving as the patient’s advocate and the liaison between the sterile field and the rest of the surgical suite.
• Set up the operating room with supplies, equipment, and medications for each procedure; assist with room turnover and decontamination between cases.
• Maintain strict aseptic technique, traffic control, and a sterile environment at all times.
• Perform accurate instrument and sponge counts and process specimens to the lab.
• Prepare and administer medications and injections as ordered by the physician, including accurate controlled substance counts.

PACU / Recovery

• Monitor patients and deliver skilled nursing care through all phases of post-anesthesia recovery.
• Maintain a working knowledge of sedation medications, dosing, and reversal agents, and respond appropriately to the overly sedated patient.
• Communicate physician instructions clearly to patients, families, and outside care providers, and provide discharge teaching.

Qualifications

• Current, unencumbered Registered Nurse license in the Commonwealth of Virginia (or valid multistate compact license).
• Current BLS and ACLS certification (or ability to obtain prior to start).
• Minimum 2 years of nursing experience; perioperative, PACU, or ambulatory surgery experience strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of operating room equipment, sterilization processes, and aseptic technique.
• Strong assessment, communication, and critical-thinking skills with a patient-first mindset.
• Experience in plastic surgery or aesthetic medicine a plus.