Registered Nurse / RN PACU

Recovery Room (PACU) Registered Nurse

Join our team as a day shift, full-time Recovery Room (PACU) Registered Nurse in Westwood, NJ.

Thrive in a People-First Environment and Make Healthcare Better

• Thrive: We empower our team with career growth opportunities, tuition assistance, and resources that support your wellness, education, and financial well-being.
• People-First: We prioritize your well-being with paid time off, comprehensive health benefits, and a supportive, inclusive culture where you are valued and cared for.
• Make Healthcare Better: We use advanced technology to support our team and enhance patient care.
• Learn more about the benefits offered for this job.

Get to Know Your Team:

• Hackensack Meridian Pascack Valley Medical Center is a 128-bed, full-service, acute-care community hospital with a new emergency department, a state-of-the-art maternity center, a women's imaging center, and an ICU.

Responsibilities

• PACU staff provides care for patients recovering from general, regional, or local anesthesia. Unless complications occur, most patients only stay in the PACU for a few hours before returning home or to another department of the hospital.
• The PACU staff, generally composed of highly trained nurses, performs many tasks vital to the care of post-anesthesia and post-operative patients. These essential activities include:
• Monitoring vital signs (heart rate, blood pressure, temperature and respiratory rate)
• Treating symptoms of postoperative nausea and vomiting (or PONV)
• Managing post-operative pain
• Treating post-anesthetic shivering
• Monitoring surgical site(s) for excessive bleeding, discharge, swelling, hematoma, redness, etc.
• Additionally, PACU RNs often coordinate the delivery of care for post-anesthesia patients immediately following surgical procedures, so that the physical, psychological, safety, rehabilitative and education needs of patients and their family members are met.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing
• Current state Registered Nurse license: New Jersey
• Currently licensed to practice professional nursing in the State of New Jersey and must be familiar with the Basic Nursing Performance Standards as Outlined in the New Jersey Nurse Practice Act
• Evidence of continuing education in the field of OR nursing.
• Telemetry Course
• 1 year minimum: PACU, Critical Care or Emergency Room RN experience
• Basic Life Support (BLS) by the American Heart Association (AHA) or the American Red Cross (ARC)
• Advance Cardiac Life Support certification (ACLS) by the American Heart Association (AHA) or the American Red Cross (ARC)

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor of Science in Nursing preferred

CPAN Preferred

Rate of pay is determined based on experience and education and may include other pay components such as differentials and call pay based on role.