Registered Nurse - PACU

Job Title

Minimum 2 years experience shift: 3x12's- start times ranging between 0630-0930 on call on 1 weekend a month and 1 day a week 1 PACU/PREOP MOR - looking for experience prepping and recovering patients coming in for cath lab procedures including cardiac stents, TAVR, watchman

Unit Details:

• Daily Census: 20-28
• Visits/Day: 20-28
• Rooms/Beds: 12
• Staffing Ratio: 1:2
• Patient Population: Primarily Adults and Geriatrics, Pediatrics (minimal)
• Float Required: Yes, Pre-op and outpatient surgery
• Unit Systems: Omnicell and Allscripts

Experience/Skills Required:

• Minimum 2 yrs critical care/PACU experience
• Pre-Post Arterial line management
• Dysrhythmia recognition/management
• Cardiac Vascular
• Cardiac arrest
• Cardioversion
• Carotid Endarterectomy
• Pacemaker Insertion
• Pulmonary Artery Line/Swan Ganz monitoring
• Post Cath Lab Procedures
• Pulmonary Artery Lines
• Blood Product Administration
• Central line care/management
• Phlebotomy
• PICC line care and management
• Starting IVs
• Omnicell
• Antiarrhythmics
• Anticoagulants
• Antihypertensives
• Emergency Medications
• IV vasopressors
• Narcotics/ Analgesics
• Reversal agents
• Care of Ventilated patients
• Follow up phone calls
• Medication reconciliation
• Obtain Operative/Procedural Consent
• Pre/Post Cath lab procedures
• Pre/Post IR procedures
• Pre/Post Operative procedures
• Pre-op Assessment
• Pre-op Education
• Review History and Physical
• Interpretation and communication of lab values
• Isolation Precautions
• Malignant Hyperthermia Protocols
• Pain Assessment and Management
• RASS (Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale)
• Watchman
• TR Band, Femstop

Certifications Required:

• ACLS
• BCLS
• LA Fire Safety Card
• All RTO must be on initial submittal. Please ensure that all time off needed are requested for entire length of contract.