Registered Nurse-Pre-Anesthesia Screening

4050 Coon Rapids Blvd NWCoon Rapids, MN

October 06, 2026

October 14, 2026

Mercy Procedural Care Center

Day/Evening (United States of America)

8 hour shift

20

MNA-05-Mercy RN-RMC

Occasional

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Tier 1: 2 years if recent (within 3 years) of recent Preanesthesia Screening Experience

Tier 2: 2 years of recent (within 3 years) of recent hospital Perianesthesia experience

Tier 3: 4 years of recent (within 2 years) of hospital clinical experience

• .5 FTE (40 hours per two-week pay period)
• 8-hour day/evening shift
• Occasional weekend rotation

Nursing is the diagnosis and treatment of human response to actual or potential health problems. This includes establishing an intentional therapeutic relationship between a registered nurse and a patient and family. As a leader and the integrator of care, the professional nurse has the responsibility, authority, and accountability for planning, coordinating, and evaluating the patient's care needs.

The Pre-Anesthesia Screening (PAS) nurse:

• Assesses surgical patients and determines readiness for day of surgery utilizing evidence-based guidelines and standards.
• Promotes appropriate pre-surgical testing and consultations.
• Utilizes an established, escalating communication plan to reduce preventable delays and cancellations for known medical issues and ensure optimal safety for surgery patients.

• Assessment.
  • Collects, prioritizes and synthesizes comprehensive data pertinent to the patient's health or situation.
  • Collects and prioritizes data in a systematic and ongoing process that involves the patient, family, other health care providers and environment as appropriate.
  • Integrates data relevant to the situation to identify needs, patterns and variances.
  • Uses appropriate evidence based assessment techniques and instruments in data collection.
• Diagnosis.
  • Analyzes assessment data to determine nursing diagnoses.
  • Interprets assessment information to identify each patient's needs relative to age, developmental stage and culture.
  • Formulates, revises and resolves nursing diagnoses that reflect the current patient status.
  • Validates and communicates nursing diagnoses with the patient, family and other health care team members.
  • Documents nursing diagnoses in compliance with the patient care guidelines.
• Outcomes Identification.
  • Identifies expected outcomes individualized to the patient.
  • Establishes, in the collaboration with the family, patient, realistic and measurable patient expected outcomes based on nursing diagnoses, patients present and potential capabilities, goals, available resources and plan for continuity of care.
• Planning.
  • Develops a plan that prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes.
  • Develops an individualized plan considering patient characteristics or the situation as appropriate in conjunction with the patient, family and others.
  • Establishes a plan that provides for continuity of care.
  • Incorporates evidence based nursing practice takes into consideration current statutes, rules and regulations when developing the plan of care.
• Implementation.
  • Implements the identified plan.
  • Implements interventions in a safe, timely, appropriate manner.
  • Utilizes evidence-based interventions and treatments specific to the diagnoses as appropriate.
  • Coordinates implementation of the plan of care if appropriate
  • Documents interventions according to documentation guidelines.
• Evaluation.
  • Evaluates the patient's progress towards attainment of the outcome.
  • Evaluates the patient's/family's understanding of and response to the plan of care.
  • Utilizes systematic and ongoing assessment data to revise diagnoses, outcomes and