Recovery Room Nurse - North

Recovery Room Nurse – Near North Base Pay Range

$43.00/hr - $43.00/hr

• Provide nursing care to patients in the recovery room in accordance with all Planned Parenthood of Illinois policies and protocols, OSHA/CLIA regulations.
• Assist providers with emergencies during clinic, screen patients with medical problems, and train staff on medical emergencies.
• Participate in the follow‑up of abortion complications, achieving an abortion medical occurrence rate of 1% or less where applicable.
• Monitor medications, crash cart, inventory and logs, ensuring proper functioning of equipment.
• Accept individual and joint responsibility for health center efforts to achieve annual plans, abortion visits of 3 hours or less, and the PPFA defined abortion occurrence rate of 1% or less.
• Participate in meeting fiscal revenue, expense and contribution margin targets.
• Understand and practice a market and customer‑oriented approach to health care delivery.
• Ensure compliance with all organizational quality assurance guidelines, OSHA and CLIA regulations.
• Demonstrate commitment to PPIL core values of access, activism, care, confidentiality, diversity, excellence, integrity, respect, self‑determination, and stewardship.

• Assist and monitor patients in the recovery room (vital signs, medication dispensing, fluids, nutrition, after‑care instructions, birth‑control information, and reporting of post‑abortion complications).
• Assist abortion providers in the procedure room during medical emergencies.
• Handle “emergency” patient calls, documenting and following up as delegated to licensed clinical staff.
• Screen clients with medical problems prior to abortions with the Chief Medical Officer or Associate Medical Directors.
• Monitor controlled substances and crash cart medications, keeping daily logs per policies.
• Participate in inventory of medications, recovery room supplies, and anesthesia supplies on‑site.
• Ensure appropriate follow‑up is initiated and updated per PPIL protocols.
• Update documentation in the adverse events tracker in collaboration with the health center manager.
• Maintain current knowledge of family‑planning methods, abortion issues, technology, PPIL services, protocols, policies, and procedures, providing feedback for training and education.
• Collaborate with the Health Center Manager, Regional Directors, and the Procedural Abortion and Sedation Services Clinical Director on day‑to‑day operations.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

The employee is regularly required to sit, walk, talk, read, see and hear; use hands and fingers to type, handle, or feel; and reach. The employee must occasionally lift or move up to 25 pounds. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable those with disabilities to perform these functions.

Supervisor: Procedural Abortion and Sedation Services Clinical Director

Status: Full‑time. Non‑exempt from overtime provisions.

Schedule: Tuesday‑Saturday

Education: Registered Nurse licensed in Illinois with active BLS and ACLS certification at all times.

Experience: Experience in an OB/GYN related field is preferred but not required. Spanish speaking is preferred but not required.

Professional and Personal Qualities: Commitment to efficient customer‑oriented service and operating goals of Planned Parenthood of Illinois; willingness to collaborate in a team approach; willingness to pursue additional training as a supervised sedation professional when proficiency is achieved.

Planned Parenthood works affirmatively to include diversity among its workforce and does not discriminate in the selection of its staff based on factors including but not limited to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, income, marital status or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law. We encourage candidates whose past experience does not perfectly align with every qualification to apply anyway, as their unique perspective may be exactly what we need.

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