Recovery Room Nurse - Aurora

Job Description

Job Description

The Recovery Room Nurse is part of the staff team that provides reproductive health services in accordance with Planned Parenthood of Illinois’ policies, protocols, and procedures.  Essential Functions

Essential Functions:

1. Provide nursing care to patients in PPIL’s health centers’ recovery room in accordance with all Planned Parenthood of Illinois policies and protocols, OSHA/CLIA regulations.
2. Assist providers with emergencies during clinic, screen patients with medical problems, and train staff in medical emergencies.
3. Participate in the follow up of abortion complications, where applicable, achieving an abortion medical occurrence rate of 1% or less.
4. Monitor medications/crash carts, inventory and logs and ensure proper functioning of equipment.
5. Accept individual and joint responsibility for, and participate in health center efforts to achieve:

1. 1. annual plan (i.e. AB clients to goal)
   2. abortion visits of 3 hours or less.
   3. abortion medical occurrence rate of 1% or less as defined by the PPFA list of abortion occurrences.
   4. attainment of annual health center fiscal goals in revenue, expenses, and contribution margin.

1. Understand, commit to, and practice a market and customer-oriented approach to health care delivery.
2. Accept individual and joint responsibility for, and participate in, health center efforts to comply with all organizational quality assurance guidelines and all pertinent government regulations including OSHA and CLIA.

1. Demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to remain informed about PPIL protocols, policies, and procedures.

1. Demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to PPIL core values of access, activism, care, confidentiality, diversity, excellence, integrity, respect, self-determination, and stewardship; practice these values in relations with internal and external customers.

Other Responsibilities:

1. Assist and monitor patients in the recovery room. This includes taking vital signs, dispensing medications, fluids, and nutrients, giving verbal and written aftercare instructions and birth control information, and reporting signs or symptoms of post abortion complications to the provider.
2. Assist abortion providers in the procedure room during medical emergencies.
3. As assigned, handle "emergency" patient calls to be shared with the licensed clinical staff or other delegated staff. This includes documentation and follow-up of all calls received.
4. Screen clients with medical problems prior to making abortion appointments in conjunction with the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) or Associate Medical Directors.
5. Monitor controlled substances and crash cart medications and keep logs daily, according to controlled substance policies and procedures.
6. Participate in inventory of medications, and recovery room supplies, including those used for anesthesia on-site.
7. Ensure appropriate follow up is initiated and updated by PPIL protocols.
8. In conjunction with the health center manager, update documentation in adverse events tracker.
9. Take personal responsibility to remain informed about family planning methods, abortion issues and technology, services offered by PPIL, and PPIL protocols, policies and procedures, to give regular feedback to the Health Center Manager regarding training and continuing education needs.
10. Collaborate with Health Center Manager, Regional Directors, and Procedural Abortion and Sedation services Clinical Director, regarding day-to-day Recovery Room operations.
11. Other duties as assigned.

Physical Demands:

The physical demand characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, walk, talk, read, see and hear. The employee is frequently required to use hands and fingers to type, handle, or feel and reach. The employee is regularly required to stand and walk. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25          pounds.  Must be able to travel throughout Upstate Illinois as scheduled.

Supervisor: Procedural Abortion and Sedation Services Clinical Director

Status: Full-time. Non-exempt from the overtime provisions of the wage and salary regulations.

Education : A Registered Nurse licensed in the state of Illinois. Must have active BLS and ACLS certification at all times throughout employment.

Experience : Previous experience in an OB/GYN related field preferred but not required.  Spanish speaking preferred but not required.  

Professional and Personal Qualities : Commitment to the efficient and customer-oriented provision of services, as well as commitment to the operating goals of Planned Parenthood of Illinois. Willingness to participate in a team approach to health care delivery. Willingness to pursue additional training as a supervised sedation professional once proficiency is achieved as a recovery room nurse, based upon future needs of the organization. Must be able to travel to specified health centers throughout the State of Illinois to work as a recovery room nurse based upon needs of the organization and staffing schedules. 

Planned Parenthood works affirmatively to include diversity among its workforce and does not discriminate in the selection of its staff based on factors including but not limited to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, income, marital status or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law.  We know that BIPOC and women identifying candidates are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every requirement.  Please do not be deterred if your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job posting.  We encourage you to apply anyway!  You may be exactly who we are looking for!

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