Registered Nurse (PACU)

Job Title

Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Execute position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex patient care.
• Demonstrate performance and leadership that is broad enough to improve the care for a group of patients.
• Responsible for the documented outcomes at the program or service level.
• Program or service level outcomes must be broad and complex and can be demonstrated at any organizational level within a facility, Veterans Integrated Systems Network (VISN), or Veterans Affairs Central Office (VACO).
• Provide specialized care in the assessment, planning, implementing and evaluation of care throughout the peri anesthesia continuum to include the Pre anesthesia Phase, Post anesthesia Phase I, Post anesthesia Phase II, and extended care from sedation/analgesia and/or anesthesia for surgical, diagnostic, or therapeutic procedures.
• Responsible and accountable for maintaining personal, professional and unit development.
• Adhere to patient safety initiatives, educational activities and quality improvement is required.
• Possess knowledge related to the physiology associated with various anesthesia techniques and surgical interventions.
• Assess and prepare patients for procedures appropriately.
• Perform clinical assessment of the patient and readily recognize contraindication for anesthesia and/or surgical intervention.
• Directly involved in determining patient readiness for surgical procedures.
• Apply the appropriate post sedation scoring and assess the patient's postoperative status to include cardiovascular and respiratory systems and airway management needs, neurological system, hemodynamic stability, pain, and comfort needs and mental status, implementing appropriate interventions to maintain or return all physiological system to baseline or above.
• Maintain knowledge of current American Society of Peri anesthesia Nurses (ASPAN) standards, VHA Directive and service level standard operating procedures.
• Responsible for ensuring comprehensive documenting of all phases of care and is timely, complete, and accurate in the electronic health record.
• Model and apply the professional behaviors inherent to best clinical practice, responsibility, attendance, communication, autonomy and collaborative relationships.
• Critical Care competencies compliment the nurse's knowledge, attitudes, and skills, enabling them to maintain the highest standards of care.

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards

Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards

Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory

Work Schedule: Full-Time, M-F, 6:30am-3:00pm and 11:00am-7:30pm (call requirement)

Telework: Not Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Available

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Available

US Department of Veterans Affairs