Registered Nurse, PACU Outpatient/Inpatient Surgery (36 hours, Day/Night)
Core
Provide professional nursing care, assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, and evaluation for patients in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) and Pre-Operative Unit, stabilizing patients directly from the OR and managing high-acuity recovery.
Role type
Registered Nurse (PACU/Pre-Op)
Builds
Patient stabilization and recovery care in an integrated procedural platform
Domain
Healthcare / Peri-operative Nursing
Deliverable
physical/clinical work
Required skills
Nursing assessment, critical care management, patient stabilization, care coordination, clinical quality improvement, stress management, delegation
Preferred skills
Previous PACU experience, multilingual skills, total therapy/epidemiology/peri-operative specialty certification
Technologies
Computerized data systems
Responsibilities
Adhere to Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing rules, perform nursing assessment and diagnosis, coordinate care across the healthcare continuum, manage high-acuity recovery patients, conduct quality improvement research utilization projects, delegate patient care activities
Seniority
Entry to Mid-level, hands-on IC