REGISTERED NURSE, RECOVERY ROOM
Schedule: 12 HR DAY
Facility: MAIN CAMPUS
Date Posted: Sep 9, 2024
Description
Location: Main Campus
Department: Recovery Room PACU
Schedule: Full Time, 12 HR Day Shift, 0730-2000 M, Th, F with call
Position Summary:
Under the direction of the charge nurse, the PACU Staff Nurse provides nursing care for the PACU patient according to established standards of care, guidelines and hospital policy and procedure. Possesses knowledge and skill necessary to provide care appropriate to age of patients served.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Current nursing licensure in Georgia
- PACU/Critical Care experience preferred
- CPR required. ACLS & PALS required within one year.
- CPAN preferred
- Ability to understand and adhere to job responsibilities/limitations
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw conclusions
- Ability to read, interpret and report pertinent data
- Ability to understand and follow policies and procedures
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions
- Ability to interact diplomatically with patients, families and health care team member
Working Conditions:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:
- Regularly required to walk, reach, and stretch with hands and arms.
- Frequently required to use hands to finger, handle or feel objects and control knobs of equipment and/or instruments
- Frequently required to stand for long periods of time; climb or balance; stoop, kneel or crouch; talk or hear; and smell
- Must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally more than 50 pounds
- Visual abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision,, depth vision, and ability to adjust focus
- Occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, risk of electrical shock, and risk of radiation
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate
