Full Time | Ambulatory Healthcare Services1 Week Ago
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Jax Spine and Pain Centers is Hiring a PACU RN/PRN Near Jacksonville, FL
This is a PRN Role for a PACU RN Essential Competencies/Performance Expectations include, but are not limited to:
Ability to collect clinical data with patients' medical and nursing care. Ability to set priorities.
Ability to communicate well with patients, families, teammates, physicians, and other members of the healthcare team.
Recognizes legal and policy limits of individual practice.
Assesses, plans evaluate, and ensures the implementation of the patient’s care to achieve identified outcomes and delivers safe patient care according to facility policy and procedure.
Assesses patient status on admission and on an ongoing basis.
Coordinates nursing interventions to enhance the achievement of expected outcomes and to ensure readiness for discharge.
Adheres to all facility policies and procedures when providing patient care.
Demonstrates ability to provide patient care in emergencies.
Assesses learning needs according to the patient’s level of understanding and readiness to learn.
Participates in the monitoring and evaluation of nursing care provided.
Assumes charge nurse responsibility as assigned.
Demonstrates appropriate knowledge and competence of designated skills.
History and physical assessment of the patient.
Completes review of the medical record.
Admits patient according to the procedure.
Promotes physical comfort and provides emotional support and safety for the patient.
Administers and charts medications as ordered by the physician.
Reinforces and clarifies physician instructions and explanations of procedures to the patient.
Provides nursing care and appropriate monitoring according to policies and procedures.
Verifies surgical/procedure site with the patient according to surgical schedule and patient History and Physical.
Obtains and verifies operative/procedure consent.
Provides instructions according to patient needs.
Completes nursing documentation.
Provides emergency care according to physician and administrative policy.
Assists with preoperative and postoperative patient calls.
Reviews charts for completeness and signatures of physicians.
Maintains an environment that promotes safety: Temperature range, Electrical safety measures, Oxygen and Suction, Equipment, Resuscitation Equipment, Noise Control, Traffic Control, Control of Contamination.