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Recovery Room Nurse​/Registered Nurse; RN), Upstate Float

Job in Schiller Park, Cook County, Illinois, 60176, USA
Listing for: Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-02-12
Job specializations:
  • Healthcare
    Healthcare Nursing
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 60000 - 80000 USD Yearly USD 60000.00 80000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Recovery Room Nurse/Registered Nurse (RN), Upstate Float

Recovery Room Nurse/Registered Nurse (RN), Upstate Float

The Recovery Room Nurse is part of the staff team that provides reproductive health services in accordance with Planned Parenthood of Illinois’ policies, protocols, and procedures. As an Upstate Float, this Recovery Room Nurse role requires travel as scheduled to the following sites:
Waukegan, Aurora, Flossmoor and Near North.

Essential Functions
  • Provide nursing care to patients in PPIL’s health centers’ recovery room in accordance with all Planned Parenthood of Illinois policies and protocols, OSHA/CLIA regulations.
  • Travel to specified health centers located in Upstate Illinois to work as a recovery room nurse based upon needs of the organization and staffing schedules.
  • Assist providers with emergencies during clinic, screen patients with medical problems, and train staff in medical emergencies.
  • Participate in follow up of abortion complications, where applicable, achieving an abortion medical occurrence rate of 1% or less.
  • Monitor medications/crash carts, inventory and logs and ensure proper functioning of equipment.
  • Accept individual and joint responsibility for, and participate in health center efforts to achieve:
  • a. annual plan (i.e. AB clients to goal)
  • b. abortion visits of 3 hours or less.
  • c. abortion medical occurrence rate of 1% or less as defined by the PPFA list of abortion occurrences.
  • d. attainment of annual health center fiscal goals in revenue, expenses, and contribution margin.
    • Understand, commit to, and practice a market and customer-oriented approach to health care delivery.
    • Accept individual and joint responsibility for, and participate in, health center efforts to comply with all organizational quality assurance guidelines and all pertinent government regulations including OSHA and CLIA.
    • Demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to remain informed about PPIL protocols, policies, and procedures.
    • Demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to PPIL core values of access, activism, care, confidentiality, diversity, excellence, integrity respect, self-determination, and stewardship; practice these values in relations with internal and external customers.
    Other Responsibilities
  • Assist and monitor patients in the recovery room. This includes taking vital signs, dispensing medications, giving verbal and written aftercare instructions and birth control information, and reporting signs or symptoms of post abortion complications to the provider.
  • Assist abortion providers in the procedure room during medical emergencies.
  • As assigned, handle "emergency" patient calls to be shared with the licensed clinical staff or other delegated staff. This includes documentation and follow-up of all calls received.
  • Screen clients with medical problems prior to making abortion appointments in conjunction with the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) or Associate Medical Directors.
  • Monitor controlled substances and crash cart medications and keep logs daily, according to controlled substance policies and procedures.
  • Participate in inventory of medications, and recovery room supplies, including those used for anesthesia on-site.
  • Ensure appropriate follow up is initiated and updated by PPIL protocols.
  • In conjunction with the health center manager, update documentation in adverse events tracker.
  • Take personal responsibility to remain informed about family planning methods, abortion issues and technology, services offered by PPIL, and PPIL protocols, policies and procedures, to give regular feedback to the Health Center Manager regarding training and continuing education needs.
  • Collaborate with Health Center Manager, Regional Directors, and Procedural Abortion and Sedation services Clinical Director, regarding day-to-day Recovery Room operations.
  • Other duties as assigned.
    • Physical Demands

    The physical demand characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

    While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, walk, talk, read, see and hear. The…

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