RN Registered Nurse - PACU II as

Position Details

Schedule:

Full‑Time, 1:00 pm – 11:30 pm, Monday–Friday (Holidays as required)
Hospital:
Henry Ford Health Genesys

Location:

Grand Blanc, Michigan

• 5% Market Pay Differential
• Increased Night Shift Premium – 10%
• $2 Weekend Differential
• Sign On Bonus – $10,000

• Use independent professional judgment, analytical skills, and the nursing process to provide a full range of delegated, interdependent, and independent nursing services to patients.
• Demonstrate clinical competence, compassion, customer service orientation, focus on process and outcomes, and cost‑consciousness when assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care, following the Seven Dimensions of Patient Care and Benner's Domains of Nursing Practice.
• Provide patient care that reflects a respect for patient rights, dignity, values, culture, preferences, and expressed needs. Assess patient/family needs for information and education across the continuum, plan and implement patient teaching using varied techniques and methods, and evaluate effectiveness of educational interventions.
• Collaborate with patients, families, hospital staff, and community agencies to develop discharge plans that prepare patients for continued care needs.
• Complete assessment for risk factors, including fall, skin breakdown, VTE, and aspiration, and initiate appropriate initiatives such as the Skin Care Bundle, Fall Prevention Plan, and SCD.
• Perform medication reconciliation upon admission and changes in level of care.
• Establish, direct, coordinate, and document the plan of nursing care in conjunction with patient/family.
• Initiate and monitor problems and outcomes lists (plan‑of‑care) based on medical diagnosis and patient needs.
• Document nursing interventions (NIC) and progress toward outcomes (NOC); patient education; and evaluation every shift, as required.
• Perform basic nursing procedures—dressing change, catheterization, NG tube insertion, suctioning—demonstrating knowledge and skill application.
• Implement and complete medical interventions as ordered, initiating standing orders appropriately and assisting with all patient care activities, including activities of daily living.
• Assess and initiate interventions to prevent/minimize patient skin breakdown and follow clinical practice guidelines and procedures.
• Maintain peripheral IV therapy and obtain body fluid specimens per procedure, including blood specimens when a phlebotomist is not assigned.
• Perform blood capillary glucose monitoring and administer medications, IVs, and blood products according to established policies and procedures.
• Prepare patients for surgery or other invasive procedures according to established guidelines and assist or perform procedures as per standards of care.
• Utilize equipment based on manufacturer instructions and established nursing procedures; correctly operate and troubleshoot IV pumps, PCA pumps, epidural pumps, feeding pumps, and patient beds.
• Monitor patient responses and adjust interventions during changing patient situations.
• Regularly review work in progress to ensure that treatments, medications, and tests ordered are expeditiously carried out and documented.
• Review patient medical record/reports and confer with the physician regarding treatment plans; routinely check chart for new orders.
• Monitor patient physiological parameters—including vital signs, lab work, I&O, and blood glucose—and recognize and report meaningful changes, intervening appropriately.
• Monitor pain intensity at admission, after pain‑producing events, and at regular intervals; inform patients of pain relief measures and administer analgesics as indicated.
• Recognize acute changes in respiratory, neurologic, cardiac, and urinary status; respond appropriately with direct intervention and notify the physician/critical care team.
• Respond to life‑threatening emergencies through initiation of CPR, assembly of emergency equipment, and immediate interventions as allowable and indicated.
• Perform emergency equipment checks and provide appropriate support or summon resources for families in crisis or grieving processes.
• Communicate with other professionals/departments and physician staff to…