Pre-Operative / PACU Registered Nurse

Overview

Join our dynamic healthcare team as a Pre-Operative / PACU Registered Nurse, where your expertise will be vital in preparing patients for surgery and ensuring their smooth recovery in the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU). This energetic role offers the opportunity to deliver exceptional patient care through comprehensive assessments, vigilant monitoring, and compassionate support. You will collaborate closely with surgical teams, anesthesiologists, and other healthcare professionals to optimize patient outcomes and promote safety at every stage of the perioperative process. If you thrive in fast-paced environments and are passionate about elevating patient experiences, this position is your next exciting challenge!

Essential Duties

• Communication of processes and planned treatments with patient and significant others to gain cooperation, understanding, and trust and allay apprehension while reaching mutual consent in care approach.
• Communicates patient education based on individualized needs of the patient, as requested by Physician and/or facility policy to optimize the patients preparation for surgery and continued care upon discharge.
• Directs care of the patient in accordance with physician orders, including astute assessment of patient responses to medical treatment, therapeutic response to prescribed medications, ability to recognize significant conditions and adverse reactions, and effectively communicates patient's condition, progress, and reaction to drugs, treatments, and or significant change in condition with physician, peers & family.
• Obtains concurrent vital signs to detect deviations from expected normal values and assesses condition for changing patient status and independently intervenes with appropriate care.
• Conducts comprehensive health history interviews, ordering diagnostic tests as directed by anesthesia orders, interprets results and determines when consultation by anesthesia or other specialist is required.
• Plans and delivers direct patient care based upon evidence based standards, facility policies, procedures, protocols or processes.
• Maintains awareness of specific needs of patient including but not limited to: comfort; pain relief; anxiety relief; cultural and spiritual diversity; age specificity; protection of natural reflexes until emergence from anesthesia; prevention of surgical site infection; hydration; thermoregulation; hemodynamics; accurate point of care diagnostic testing; and plans interventions accordingly.
• Verifies patient identification; patients understanding of planned procedure by cross reference to signed consent; correct procedure site, side, & supplies; allergies and special needs before proceeding with planned procedure.
• Accurately communicates continuum of direct patient care verbally and in writing of initial assessment of baseline medical and surgical history, allergies and physical conditions and re-assessments of treatments, medications administered, and general patient progress.
• Prepares patient for surgery/procedure based on physician preferences and the anticipated needs of the patient with awareness of work flow efficiencies and time management.
• Consistently performs hand hygiene practices for the prevention of infection.
• Applies experiential knowledge for making decisions specific to efficiencies and time management to optimize work flow.
• Concurrently participates in facility quality assessment and performance improvement activities identified by the organization.
• Protects patient privacy during direct patient contact and abides to HIPAA standards upholding the privacy and security of PHI and ePHI.

Pay: $39.00 - $44.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Education:

• Associate (Required)

License/Certification:

• RN License (Required)

Shift availability:

• Day Shift (Required)

Ability to Commute:

• Boulder, CO 80303 (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $39 - $44