RN / REGISTERED NURSE - POST ANESTHESIA CARE UNIT (PACU)

Why Beebe?

Become part of the Beebe team - an inclusive team positioned in a vibrant, coastal community. Enjoy a fulfilling career as you support the health of our patients and a team focused on excellence.

Join our Nursing Team and Cultivate your Career:

At Beebe, we care about your professional nursing path and want to foster the growth and development of your career. Whether you decide to further your education, gain professional certifications, learn a new specialty area, educate or lead - we support it all. We do so by offering a nursing graduate residency program, clinical ladder, professional certification reimbursement, certification preparation curriculums, generous tuition assistance, flexible scheduling and shared governance where you can help guide nursing professional practice and have a voice as a bedside nurse.

Benefits

In addition to competitive compensation and wellness benefits (medical, dental, vision and prescription) Beebe Healthcare also offers:

• Sign-on and Referral Bonuses for select positions
• Tuition Assistance up to $5,000
• Paid Time Off
• Long Term Sick accrual
• Employer Contribution Plan
• Free Short and Long-Term Disability for Full Time employees
• Zero copay for drugs on prescription plan for certain conditions
• College Bound 529 Savings Plan
• Life Insurance
• Beebe Perks via WorkAdvantage
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pet Insurance

Overview

Are you a passionate and skilled Registered Nurse (RN) with expertise in the Perioperative field? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, high-acuity environment, delivering quality care with precision and compassion? If so, we invite you to join the Beebe Healthcare team as a PACU RN and contribute to our mission of providing exceptional patient care in the heart of Delaware.

This position requires on-call work with a 30 minute response time.

Responsibilities

• Identifies, labels, and dispenses medications and solutions safely and per established guidelines. Demonstrates competency with insertion of intravenous lines.
• Demonstrates competency with LIS lab and Invision process.
• Accepts personal accountability for proper handling, judicious use, and optimum care of all department supply, instrument, and equipment inventory.
• Utilizes the nursing process throughout the perioperative setting per patient assessment collecting, interpreting, recording, and communicating pertinent data relevant to patient care in surgery; care planning utilization of collected data to plan appropriately for intraoperative nursing care; implementing provides direct patient care to meet physical and psychological needs; evaluating care continuously evaluates patient response to nursing intervention and modifies care plan to achieve desired outcome.
• Demonstrates and conveys theoretical knowledge and skills related to perioperative nursing care understands the "why" concept as well as the "how" process.
• Thorough/Accurate/Complete documentation of post-operative patient care. Demonstrates competency with usage of the Cardiac Monitor.
• Demonstrates competency with airway assessment and management O2 therapy, ventilator management, assisting with intubation and extubation, etc.
• Understands, demonstrates, and conveys knowledge related to patient assessment and care with the pain management process.
• Effectively demonstrates critical thinking, prioritization of duties, and time management skills throughout the perioperative arena.
• Collects adequate and correct blood/urine specimens from patients as ordered by physicians, using proper technique and equipment.
• Correctly labels specimens and processes.
• Ensures appropriate delivery of specimens to the lab via courier or specimen pick up from outside agencies.
• Demonstrates competency with appropriate set up and monitoring of PA lines Cardiac Output, A-Line, CVP, Swan-Ganz, etc.

Qualifications

• Prefer minimum of 1 year recent PACU or Critical Care or Emergency Nursing experience.
• Must be knowledgeable regarding the nursing process and its application assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
• At time of hire, we ask that you either have a current active PALS certification or obtain PALS Certification within the first 6 months of hire.

Competencies Skills

Essential:

• Experience In Hospital Or Acute Care Setting
• Clear Communication Skills Both Written And Verbal
• Able To Keep Confidential Information Regarding Patients, Team Members
• Able To Withstand Crisis Situations
• Has Skills To Provide Customer Service To Patients, Team Members And Visitors
• Knowledge And Experience With Electronic Health Records

Credentials

Essential:

• RN - Registered Nurse
• BLS - Basic Life Saving certification
• NIH - Stroke Certification
• ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support

Nonessential:

• PALS - Pediatric Advanced Life Support

Education

Essential:

• RN Diploma/RN Graduate Program

Entry

USD $36.20/Hr.

Expert

USD $59.73/Hr.