Registered Nurse - PACU

What We Offer:

Join the Novant Health Coastal Carolina Medical Center as a PACU RN!

 

• Location: 1000 Medical Center Dr., Hardeeville, South Carolina 29927

• Status: Full Time

• Schedule: 12 hour shifts 0730-2000 or 10 hour shifts 830-1900 

• Call: 3-4/month including a weekend 24 hour call shift 0700-0700

 

Since opening in 2004, Novant Health Coastal Carolina Medical Center has grown into a major health care facility serving our communities in and around Jasper County, SC. Whether you come here for a scheduled appointment or a medical emergency, you can expect fast, expert care. We are as committed to treating people with compassion as we are to delivering leading-edge treatments.

 

We offer services including:

• Gallbladder surgery
• Hernia repair
• Thyroid surgery
• Laparoscopic surgery
• Artery surgery to relieve leg pain
• Care for diabetic vascular problems
• Minimally invasive aortic aneurysm surgery
• Carotid artery surgery
• Varicose vein surgery
• Treatment of bowel obstructions

 

 

What We‘re Looking For:

• Education : 4 Year / Bachelors Degree, preferred.
  • Graduate of an accredited school of nursing required. If your RN nursing license has been inactive, retired or lapsed for five years or more and you have not been licensed in another state during the last five years, successful completion of a Board approved refresher course is required prior to reactivating or reinstating your license. In order to be considered for current licensure status, you must apply for reinstatement within one year of completing the refresher course.
• Experience : One year relevant experience, preferred. 
• Licensure/Certification: Current RN licensure in appropriate state, required.

What You‘ll Do:

• Airway and Breathing Management: Immediately assessing the patient‘s airway, providing supplemental oxygen, and managing respiratory issues such as hypoventilation or laryngospasm.
• Vital Sign Monitoring:

  Frequently checking and documenting vital signs to identify potential post-operative complications like bleeding, shock, or arrhythmias.

• Anesthesia Recovery: Monitoring the patient‘s level of consciousness as they wake up, managing emergence delirium, and ensuring they regain full neurological function.

• Pain and Symptom Management: Administering medications to treat postoperative pain, nausea, and vomiting.

• Surgical Site Care: Inspecting dressings, bandages, and drainage tubes for leaks, bleeding, or infection.

• Communication and Collaboration: Collaborating closely with surgeons and anesthesiologists to update them on the patient‘s recovery status.