PACU Registered Nurse - Contract

Job Description
Start date: ASAP (They do work some variable shifts but mainly 8:30)
First Time Traveler: Yes
Ratios:
Years of experience: 1 year experience
Weekend REQ:CA state license: Yes
Pending License accepted: Yes
RTO Restrictions: No more than 7 days

Hospital Highlights
Type of Facility: Acute Care Facility
Scrub Color: scrubs or business casual

Job Requirements & Qualifications

• Previous Charge Experience:
  -
• Years of Experience:
  1 year(s)
• Patient Ratio Experience:
  -
• Charting System:
  Required, Epic
• Teaching Hospital Experience:
  -
• Community Hospital Experience:
  -
• LTAC Experience:
  -
• Trauma Level I Experience:
  -
• Trauma Level II Experience:
  -
• Travel Experience Required:
  No
• Certfications:Certs marked with * are preferred
  ACLS, BLS, PALS
• Skills:Skills marked with * are preferred

  Respiratory

  End-Tidal CO2 monitoring
  Airway assessment

  IV therapy/Phlebotomy

  Accessing/Managing Ports*
  Blood Product Administration
  Central line care/management*
  Phlebotomy
  PICC line care and management*
  Starting and maintaining IVs

  Work Settings

  Ambulatory/Outpatient
  Inpatient*
  Pain Management*
  Pedi PACU*
  Phase I PACU
  Phase II Recovery
  Pre-Post

  Plastics

  Breast augmentation*

  Ophthalmology

  Cataract extraction/implant*

  Gastrointestinal

  Cholecystectomy*

  Orthopedics

  Circulation Checks*

  Types of Anesthesia

  Conscious Sedation*
  General*
  Local*
  Monitored Anesthesia Care (MAC)*
  Nerve Blocks*
  Post-epidural management*

  Pre/Post Op Care of the Patient

  Discharge Instructions
  Follow up phone calls
  Medication reconciliation
  Obtain 12 lead EKG/ECG
  Pre-op Assessment
  Pre-op Education
  Pre-Op Medications
  Pre/Post Operative procedures
  Review History and Physical

  Cardiac Monitoring

  Dysrhythmia recognition/management

  Surgery Cases

  Endo/Laparoscopic
  ENT
  General
  Gyn
  Ophthalmology
  Ortho
  Plastics
  Podiatry
  Urology
  Vascular

  Endocrine

  Hyperglycemia/Hypoglycemia Protocols
  Insulin protocols

  Professional Topics and Skills

  Interpretation and communication of lab values
  Isolation Precautions/PPE
  Malignant Hyperthermia Protocol
  Pain assessment & management
  RASS (Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale)

  Pediatrics

  Management of pediatric patients*

  Gynecology

  Mastectomy*

  Medications

  Narcotics/Opioid Analgesics
  Procedural Sedation Administration/Monitoring
  Reversal agents

  ENT

  Tonsillectomy*

  Genitourinary/Renal

  TURP*

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