Registered Nurse; RN - PACU

Overview

Join Team Tidelands and help people live better lives through better health!

Registered Nurse (RN) - PACU

Are you passionate about quality and committed to excellence? Consider joining our Tidelands Health team. As our region’s largest health care provider, we are also one of our area’s largest employers. More than 2,500 team members at more than 70 Tidelands Health locations bring our healing mission to life each day.

• Monitor post-operative patients’ levels of consciousness during recovery from anesthesia.
• Measure and record patients’ vital signs.
• Closely observe patients for signs of side effects of anesthesia medication.
• Treat pain, nausea, and other post-operative symptoms of anesthesia.
• Update charts, patient files, and medical records.
• Collaborate with the medical team on post-operative patient care and facilitate timely specialized interventions.
• Provide comfort and reassurance to distressed post-operative patients and concerned family members.
• Educate patients and their families on post-surgery care, as well as answering questions.

• Associate’s Degree in Nursing. (ADN) Required
• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing. (BSN) Preferred
• Master’s Degree in Nursing. (MSN) Preferred

• Previous experience in PACU/OPS Preferred
• Critical Care experience Required

• Works with patients, families, physicians, and other health care providers

• Basic Life Support Certified
  - American Heart Association is required within 30 days of hire. Recertification every two years is Required
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support Certified
  - American Heart Association Preferred
• Registered Nurse
  - South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation with South Carolina Board of Nursing

Medium Physical Demand

The intent of this job description is to provide a representative level of the duties and responsibilities that will be required of positions given this title and shall not be construed as a contract for employment nor a declaration of the total of the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position. Employees may be directed to perform tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.

Tidelands Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual’s age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

Tidelands Health is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). Tidelands Health does not discriminate against employees or applicants for employment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, age, national origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, gender, genetic information, familial status, or any other legally protected status.