PACU Nurse

Job Description

Ortho Rhode Island is a world-class group of talented providers and professionals, all working together to offer value and quality in everything we do. Each Ortho Rhode Island team member is dedicated to thinking like a patient, and to offering the best experience in our industry, driven by our core values: delivering on our word, respecting each other, innovating in orthopedics, valuing every individual, and engaging our community.

The (PACU) Registered Nurse is responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, and coordinating patient care from the operating room to discharge. The Registered Nurse is responsible for the achievement of patient outcomes through implementation of critical pathways and in accordance with the mission, vision, and values of Ortho

RI.

• Delivers safe patient care according to Ortho
  
  RI policy and procedure.
• Assesses, plans, evaluates, and ensures the implementation of the patient’s care to achieve identified outcome, and reviews on an ongoing basis.
• Coordinate nursing interventions to enhance achievement of expected outcomes and to ensure readiness for discharge.
• Demonstrates ability to direct and provide patient care in emergency situations.
• Utilizes specialized nursing knowledge, nursing process and discriminative judgment while giving direct or indirect care.
• Assigns patient care responsibilities based on patient needs and abilities of available staff.
• Demonstrates appropriate knowledge and competence of designated skills identified for position in post anesthesia patient care duties.
• Monitors vital signs, recognize emergencies, and notify Anesthesiologist.
• Checks dressings, drains, tubes and patency of catheters as appropriate.
• Assists with postoperative patient calls.
• Reviews charts for completeness and administers medications as ordered by physician.
• Assists with cleaning of preoperative and recovery room areas according to policies and procedures.
• Checks inventory and notifies appropriate staff members to re-order.
• Demonstrates the proper discharge care per the Ortho
  
  RI guidelines.
• Attends and participates in all applicable facility training and development workshops scheduled by the facility.
• Communicates patient information to assure confidentiality and continuity of care.
• Documents all patient information according to established standards and provides pertinent information confidentially to physicians, family and team members involved.
• Demonstrates the safe operation of equipment and machinery and follows procedures for reporting and correcting an unsafe situation.
• Performs all other duties as assigned by management.
• Compliance with HIPAA and OSHA regulations

• Excellent computer skills
• EMR Systems
• Practice Management System
• Microsoft Suite (including Outlook, Word, Excel, Calendar)
• Phone software
• Operation, cleaning and sterilization of surgical instruments and equipment
• Familiarity with legal and policy limits of individual practice

• Familiarity and follow through with all HIPAA compliance.
• Attention to detail.
• Effective time management
• Critical thinking and decision making

• Embracing ORI’s mission and vision through friendly and patient-oriented service
• Demonstrate excellent teamwork, organizational, and communication skills.
• Adheres to processes, while looking for opportunities for innovation and improvement
• Critical thinking skills and deliberate decision making.
• Ability to work in a fast paced in environment while remaining patient with physicians, patients, families, and co-workers.
• Assertive
• Ability to correlate clinical data with patient’s medical and nursing care.
• Ability to make decisions concerning facility-based problems.

• General pleasant working environment with little or no distractions or exposure to unpleasant or hazardous elements. Meets all safety training requirements associated with the Surgical Center. Indoors climate-controlled environment.
• Patient care environment with potential exposure to unpleasant odors, to blood and body fluids which may carry infection, to infectious disease, and to chemical and electrical hazards. Occasional…