Job Description
Prime Staffing is seeking a travel nurse RN PACU - Post Anesthesia Care for a travel nursing job in San Francisco, California.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: PACU - Post Anesthesia Care
- Discipline: RN
- Duration: 13 weeks
- 40 hours per week
- Shift: 10 hours, days
- Employment Type: Travel
The PACU Registered Nurse provides safe, individualized nursing care to adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients throughout the peri-anesthesia period, from admission through discharge. The RN is responsible for monitoring patients recovering from anesthesia, performing thorough nursing assessments, managing airways, administering medications, and identifying and responding to complications or adverse reactions.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide pre- and post-anesthesia nursing care.
- Assess and continuously monitor patients recovering from anesthesia.
- Perform airway management and monitor respiratory status.
- Monitor vital signs, pain, level of consciousness, and overall patient stability.
- Administer medications safely and understand their doses, indications, interactions, side effects, and potential reactions.
- Recognize and respond promptly to changes in patient condition and anesthesia-related complications.
- Follow established peri-anesthesia nursing standards and protocols.
- Collaborate with anesthesia providers, physicians, and the multidisciplinary care team.
- Educate patients and families regarding recovery and discharge instructions.
- Maintain accurate and timely documentation.
Required Qualifications
- Active California RN License
- AHA BLS
- ACLS
- PALS
- Minimum 2 years of PACU RN experience
- ICU experience required/preferred, particularly in a high-acuity hospital setting
- Strong knowledge of airway management and peri-anesthesia nursing
Preferred Experience
- High-acuity acute-care hospital experience
- Cath Lab experience
PACU RN needed for a 4×10 day shift with no weekends; requires 2+ years PACU experience, ICU background, CA RN license, BLS/ACLS/PALS, with Cath Lab experience preferred and flexibility to float across CPMC campuses.
About Prime Staffing
At Prime Staffing, we understand the importance of finding the perfect fit for both our clients and candidates. Prime Staffing utilizes a unique matchmaking approach, providing the most qualified contingent staffing to our clients, and the most competitive contracts to our workforce. Our experienced team takes the time to get to know both our clients and candidates, their needs, and preferences, to ensure that each placement is a success.
We offer a wide range of staffing services including temporary, temp-to-perm, and direct hire placements. Our extensive network of qualified candidates includes nurses, allied healthcare professionals, corporate support professionals and executives.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | San Francisco, CA |
| Industry | All |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Website | http://www.primestaffingnyc.com/ |
About Company
Prime Staffing is one of New York's leading staffing firms specializing in temporary and full-time/permanent placements across multiple industries including; healthcare, business, consulting, finance, legal services, entertainment, media, information Technology(IT) and retail.
Prime Staffing is certified by The Joint Commission for its compliance, and integrity, in supplying superior healthcare staffing services to many of the finest healthcare organizations in the country. In addition to its impeccable reputation for providing travel and per diem health care staffing, Prime has become an integral partner in staffing some of the most prestigious business organizations and Fortune 500 companies in the country including multi-national bank and investment firms, international business consulting firms, global law firms and some of the most prominent media and entertainment outlets.
Prime's success and rapid growth is direct result if its most basic founding principle-provide our clients with the most experienced and qualified employees and, likewise, provide our employees with the best jobs at the top organizations in their respective professional disciplines.
Prime Staffing is a high-energy company with a corporate culture that embraces innovation, new technology and personalized customer service. We are confident in our ability to serve you professionally by placing esteemed and experienced individuals. Our continuous expansions enables us to adapt to the continuously changing needs of our clients and employees. Through our team of seasoned professionals we maintain respect, integrity and superiority in all aspects of our business.
At Prime, we work diligently to recognize your objectives and create programs to meet them. We believe that ardent customer service is an essential component to remaining at the forefront of a competitive marketplace. Prime utilizes its expertise, and decades of combined experience in the industry, to continuously improve, implement cutting-edge programs and maintaining our position in the market as one of the fastest growing firms in the Tri-State area.
It is our goal to build long-term relationships with clients and employees based on a foundation of trust, mutual respect and our expertise in the field of staffing. We guarantee dependability, consistency and security in all aspects of operation. Prime Staffing is the Superior Staffing Solution.
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