Registered Nurse; Postpartum

Registered Nurse (Postpartum)

Full Time Professional Bethesda, MD, US

5 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $51.50 To $56.59 Hourly

PQC is accepting applications for experienced, civilian Obstetrician-Gynecologist (OB/GYN), Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility (REI), Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) Registered Nurses (RN) to work onsite at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (Bethesda, Maryland).

Here, you’ll find meaningful, challenging work in a supportive environment where your impact truly matters. If you’re ready to grow your career and help deliver exceptional results for our customers, we’d love to hear from you.

Work Environment
Monday–Friday, 8-hour shifts with a 30-minute unpaid meal break

• Monday to Wednesday: 6:00AM–2:30PM
• Thursday to Friday: 6:30AM–3:00PM

Responsibilities

Be knowledgeable of equipment and supply terminology and skill sufficient to identify and use necessary equipment and supplies properly and to communicate proper use with nurses, medical staff, patients, and family members.

Shall be knowledgeable and possess skills necessary to provide care appropriate to any age-related needs of the patients. Demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development appropriate to the appropriate patient population served:
Infants, Children, Adolescent, Adults, and Geriatric (>65).

Assess, coordinate, facilitate, deliver and evaluate care for infants to geriatric patients using the nursing process.

Knowledge of a wide range of medical disorders/conditions, diagnostic studies and treatments related to prevention, and detection of illnesses in adults, is desirable.

Be knowledgeable in professional care theories, principles, practices, and procedures to perform nursing assignments of moderate difficulty, such as on patients with special needs, paralysis, amputations, and expressive disorders.

Fully comprehend and be fluent in speaking and writing the English language.

Shall be able to, when required as a part of nursing work, assist with bed-to-bed, bed-to-chair, chair-to-chair, wheelchair-to-commode, and commode to wheelchair transfer; walk the distance of 500 yards without needing rest, push an occupied wheelchair, push an occupied gurney, lift linen bags of 30 lbs.; be dexterous enough to type efficiently and prepare medications from vials; and be able to read (with or without assistive devices) computer screens and medication vials/packets.

Caring for and monitoring critically ill patients and invasive lines; responding to life-threatening changes in a patient's condition; titration of vasoactive medications; working with specialized medical equipment, such as epidurals, PCA's, cardiac monitors, IV pumps, management of airway adjuncts, artificial airways, and mechanical ventilators.

Provide a scope of care which includes emphasis on evaluation, management, and education of patients undergoing Anesthesia (general, regional, or local), Monitored Anesthesia Care (MAC) or Moderate Sedation.

Conducts duties in accordance with PACU policies and procedures.

Delivery of treatment within the personnel and equipment capabilities of the medical treatment facility (MTF), provision of mandated nursing surveillance and preventive services.

The quality and timeliness of treatment records and reports required to document procedures performed and care provided.

Participates in educational and continuous improvement programs to include training of the enlisted and LVN/LPN/CNA staff assigned to the PACU, as appropriate.

Assess nursing needs, formulate, and implement a plan of nursing care for each patient consistent with established nursing standards and protocols for this unit and with the prescribed plan of medical care.

Contribute to the medical/nursing plan of care by observing,…