Staff Nurse - Recovery Room

• Base Pay $37.60 - $53.18 / Hour
• Employee Type FT Non-Exempt

Description

Job Purpose

The Recovery Room Staff Nurse is a professional care provider who assumes responsibility and accountability for a group of patients for a designated timeframe in order to provide care to those patients via therapeutic use of self, the nursing process, the environment/instrumentation, and coordination with other health care team members, taking into account the individual patient’s special physical or age-related needs.

Unit Specific

The Recovery Room Staff Nurse provides specialized intensive nursing care to diverse patient populations of varying acuity, ranging from infant, pediatric, adolescent, and adult to geriatric during the pre-anesthesia and post-anesthesia period in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) taking into account the individual patient’s special physical or age-related needs.

Work is performed in accordance with State regulations for Registered Nurses, established hospital standards, nursing unit structure, established regulatory and accreditation requirements, and the philosophy, goals, and objectives of the hospital and Surgical Services Department.

Education

Graduation from an accredited nursing program.

Preferred

Bachelor of Science Nursing degree.

Licensure/Certification/Registration

Possess current NYS license for Registered Professional Nurse; American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) certification or to be obtained within the first six months of hire or transfer and AHA Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification within 12 months of hire/transfer

Required

Two (2) years of post-anesthesia recovery nursing experience.

Experience

Two (2) years of post-anesthesia recovery nursing experience