Rn​/Registered Nurse - Post Anesthesia Care Unit; Pacu

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Become part of the Beebe team - an inclusive team positioned in a vibrant, coastal community. Enjoy a fulfilling career as you support the health of our patients and a team focused on excellence.

Join our Nursing Team and Cultivate your Career:At Beebe, we care about your professional nursing path and want to foster the growth and development of your career. Whether you decide to further your education, gain professional certifications, learn a new specialty area, educate or lead – we support it all. We do so by offering a nursing graduate residency program, clinical ladder, professional certification reimbursement, certification preparation curriculums, generous tuition assistance, flexible scheduling and shared governance where you can help guide nursing professional practice and have a voice as a bedside nurse.

In addition to competitive compensation and wellness benefits (medical, dental, vision and prescription) Beebe Healthcare also offers:

• Tuition Assistance up to $5,250
• Paid Time Off
• Long Term Sick accrual
• Employer Contribution Plan
• Free Short and Long-Term Disability for Full Time employees
• Zero copay for drugs on prescription plan for certain conditions
• College Bound 529 Savings Plan
• Life Insurance
• Beebe Perks via Work Advantage
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pet Insurance

The Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) Registered Nurse at Beebe Healthcare is a clinically competent professional who delivers high-quality perioperative and post-anesthesia nursing care. This experienced RN demonstrates advanced expertise in the perioperative environment and plays a critical role in supporting patients throughout the surgical continuum. Responsibilities include comprehensive patient assessment, collaborative care planning, timely nursing interventions, precise implementation of care strategies, and thorough evaluation to ensure safe recovery and optimal outcomes.

The PACU RN upholds all standards of patient safety, clinical excellence, and compassionate care within a fast-paced, team-oriented surgical setting.

• Identifies, labels, and dispenses medications and solutions safely and per established guidelines.
• Demonstrates competency with insertion of intravenous lines.
• Demonstrates competency with LIS lab and Invision process.
• Accepts personal accountability for proper handling, judicious use, and optimum care of all department supply, instrument, and equipment inventory.
• Utilizes the nursing process throughout the perioperative setting per patient assessment:
  • collecting, interpreting, recording, and communicating pertinent data relevant to patient care in surgery;
  • care planning--utilization of collected data to plan appropriately for intraoperative nursing care;
  • implementing--provides direct patient care to meet physical and psychological needs;
  • evaluating care--continuously evaluates patient response to nursing intervention and modifies care plan to achieve desired outcome.
• Demonstrates and conveys theoretical knowledge and skills related to perioperative nursing care--understands the "why" concept as well as the "how" process.
• Thorough/Accurate/Complete documentation of post-operative patient care. Demonstrates competency with usage of Cardiac Monitors.
• Demonstrates competency with airway assessment and management:
  • O2 therapy, ventilator management, assisting with intubation and estuation, etc.
• Understands, demonstrates, and conveys knowledge related to patient assessment and care with the pain management process.
• Effectively demonstrates critical thinking, prioritization of duties, and time management skills throughout the perioperative arena.
• Collects adequate and correct blood/urine specimens from patients as ordered by physicians, using proper technique and equipment.
  • Correctly labels specimens and processes.
  • Ensures appropriate delivery of specimens to the lab via courier or specimen pick up from outside agencies.
• Demonstrates competency with appropriate set up and monitoring or PA lines--Cardiac Output, A-Line, CVP, Swan-Ganz, etc.

• Prefer minimum of 1 year recent PACU or Critical Care experience.
• Emergency Department and/or Critical Care Experience is preferred.
• Must be…