Job Description
Prime Staffing is seeking a travel nurse RN PreOp / PACU - Post Anesthesia Care for a travel nursing job in Santa Rosa, California.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: PreOp / PACU - Post Anesthesia Care
- Discipline: RN
- Duration: 13 weeks
- 36 hours per week
- Shift: 12 hours, days
- Employment Type: Travel
The Pre/Post Procedure RN provides nursing care to patients before and after surgical, cardiac, interventional, diagnostic, and infusion procedures. The RN will work across a variety of procedural areas and must be comfortable caring for patients with complex medical and cardiac needs.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide pre-procedure and post-procedure nursing care and monitoring.
- Perform comprehensive patient assessments before and after procedures.
- Prepare patients for surgery, cardiac catheterization, IR, endoscopy, radiology procedures, and infusions.
- Monitor vital signs, cardiac status, pain, sedation/recovery status, and potential post-procedure complications.
- Provide specialized care to cardiac patients before and after cardiac catheterization and other cardiac procedures.
- Monitor patients for changes in condition and promptly communicate concerns to physicians and the appropriate clinical team.
- Administer medications and IV therapies according to physician orders and facility protocols.
- Review patient history, medications, allergies, laboratory results, and procedure-related information.
- Provide patient and family education regarding procedures, recovery, medications, and discharge instructions.
- Assist with safe patient preparation, recovery, transfers, and discharge.
- Collaborate with physicians, procedural teams, anesthesia, radiology, surgery, cath lab, and other interdisciplinary departments.
- Maintain accurate and timely documentation in the electronic medical record.
- Follow hospital policies, infection-control standards, and patient-safety protocols.
- Respond appropriately to changes in patient condition and emergency situations.
Required Experience
- Acute-care hospital experience required.
- Strong cardiac pre/post experience highly important.
- Cardiac Cath Lab experience preferred/required based on manager's preference.
- Experience with IR, Surgery, and Endoscopy is strongly preferred.
- Experience caring for patients before and after invasive procedures.
Required Certifications & Licensure
- Active California RN License
- BLS
- ACLS
- NIHSS
- PALS
An experienced acute-care RN with strong cardiac pre/post nursing experience, particularly someone familiar with cardiac cath patients and comfortable working across Surgery, Endoscopy, IR, Radiology, and Infusion services.
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 | Santa Rosa, 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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