Registered Nurse Pre-Op/Pacu

Soar Surgery Center is looking for a Pre Op OR/PACU nurse to join our team. OR /PACU Nurse experience required. GI, Endo, Joint, and Hip Surgery experience preferred but not required. We have multiple Outpatient Surgery Centers located across Silicon Valley.

Description: The PACU RN provides care to patients via the therapeutic use of self, the nursing process, the environment and instrumentation, and other health care team members. Two years recent (within the last 3 years) experience in Circulating. New Grads are also welcomed.

Position: Full Time (4-5 days/week)

Schedule: Monday-Friday, Day Shift

Basic Qualifications:

• Current CA RN license.
• BLS & ACLS certification.
• Two (2) year recent (within the last 3 years) experience in acute or outpatient PACU.
• Graduate of an accredited registered nursing program and completion of the current hours required by the BRN of RN student clinical experience or Graduate of registered nursing and either 1) 2000 hours of RN experience in clinical area of specialty from a licensed acute care facility within three (3) years of graduation
• Essential Functions:

The Registered Nurse demonstrates proficiency by exhibiting the following skills, competencies, and behaviors:

Nursing Process:

• Develops and/or contributes to the individualized plan of care that reflects assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of that plan.
• Ensures plan shows multidisciplinary planning, consultation, and education.
• Ensures plan is reflective of admission or outpatient database, on-going findings, age appropriate care, cultural specific needs, and appropriate acuity.
• Ensures plan is discussed w/ patient, family/significant others, and completed in a timely manner.
• Monitors the patient's progress based on the plan.
• Revises plan on ongoing basis based on patient condition and evaluation of progress.
• Ensures care meets standards of practice.
• Ensures effective development and completion of discharge plan including discharge barriers and patient/family education.
• Ensures that patient clearly understands discharge instructions.
• In outpatient, identify barriers and needs for patient/family education that will facilitate the outpatient medical mgmt. plan.
• Ensures patient safety related but not limited to, medications and procedures utilizing the five rights; patient falls; decubitus prevention and prevention of nosocomial infections.
• Ensures optimal pain control and patient comfort; identifies and discusses patient anxieties, fears or concerns regarding patient condition, treatment or discharge.
• Ensures that patient understands medication purpose, side effects, and administration instructions in the hospital as well as at the time of discharge.

Documentation:

• Charting is accurate, legible, dated, and timed.
• Documentation reflects nursing process and interventions and evaluations taken.

Clinical Outcomes:

• Discusses patient findings and progress toward outcomes w/ physicians and other members of the health care team.
• Demonstrates competencies during the probationary period and ongoing completion by departmental competency validation.
• Make comprehensive nursing decisions based on interpretation of data, assessments, and evaluations of patient outcomes.
• Participates in departmental performance improvement activities, i.e., planning, measuring/monitoring, assessing, and improving.

Workplace Safety:

• Applies standard precautions.
• Maintains a safe environment for self and others.

Patient Care Experience:

• Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department.
• Promptly answers alarms and patient requests.
• Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customer's ability to utilize resources.
• Maintains and protects patient confidentiality.
• Ensures clean, orderly, and functional work environment.
• Treats all families of patients w/ courtesy, respect, kindness and compassion.
• Provides an optimal patient care experience by actively listening to the needs of patients and family members and taking responsibility for meeting those identified needs.
• Gives patients information in a way they can understand and ensures comprehension.
• Provides a patient care experience that exceeds members' expectations.

Team Commitment:

• Viewed by others to be an effective team member who is flexible, cooperative, and willing to assist others.
• Confronts difficult or conflict situations constructively and seeks appropriate assistance.
• Takes accountability for own actions and accepts constructive criticism.
• Acts as a resource, preceptor, and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members.
• Attends all mandatory meetings, in-services and staff meetings as required, actively participates in other departmental professional development (Requirement may vary for per diem staff).
• Participates w/ the assessment of current and future unit learning needs and development of an annual education plan.
• Keeps self- informed of activities on the unit and makes recommendations for change.
• Adheres to Attendance Program.
• Reports to assigned area promptly, being present and available for report at beginning of assigned shift.

Fiscal Responsibility:

• Organizes work to minimize the use of overtime.
• Identifies and assists in systems improvement that needs simplification or correction.

This Company Describes Its Culture as:

• Detail-oriented -- quality and precision-focused
• Outcome-oriented -- results-focused with strong performance culture
• Team-oriented -- cooperative and collaborative

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid sick time
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Medical specialties:

• Medical-Surgical
• Orthopedics
• Sports Medicine
• Surgery

Physical setting:

• Operating room
• PACU, Circulating
• Private practice

Standard shift:

• Day shift

Weekly schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Burlingame, CA: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Experience:

• Nursing: 2 years (Required)

License/Certification:

• BLS Certification (Required)
• RN (Required)

Work Location: One location

Job Types: Full-time, PRN

Pay: $90.00 - $100.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Medical specialties:

• Surgery

Physical setting:

• Outpatient

Standard shift:

• Day shift

Weekly schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• Nursing: 2 years (Required)

License/Certification:

• BLS Certification (Required)
• RN (Required)

Work Location: In person