Day Shift PACU – RN – PRN

Join the Woodlawn Team as a Day Shift PACU Registered Nurse (RN) on a PRN basis!

As a PRN Registered Nurse, at Woodlawn PACU/Surgery, you will have the opportunity to work with diverse patients post surgery. This is an excellent opportunity for no weekends, no holidays, & work/life balance with the PRN opportunity!

EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• Currently licensed in the state of Indiana as an RN. Maintains this licensure and provides Human Resources with any licensure renewals or changes.
• Maintain, or be willing to obtain within 6 months of employment, ACLS and PALS certification. During this 6 month period, must be working with a certified ACLS and PALS RN.
• Must possess Basic Life Support (BLS) certification or obtain prior to providing direct patient care. Maintains BLS certification per hospital policy.
• Possess and demonstrate good communication and customer service skills and pleasant phone technique.
• Ability to adapt to variations in scheduling, including but not limited to overtime, work schedule changes or low census.

PRIMARY DUTIES:

• Assess assigned patients for overall conditions and needs, coordinates and gives care appropriately including treatments, all medications, initiates and maintains IV therapy, blood/blood product administration, etc. Initiates and modifies care plans and goals, initiates discharge planning. Prescribes appropriate nursing actions to meet the goals and the physical, psychological, social, and rehabilitative needs of the patient.
• Assist physicians as needed, transcribe and implement physician’s orders appropriately and accurately. Report to the physician or appropriate person any pertinent observations and reactions regarding patients and record these accurately in the medical record.
• Coordinates the total nursing care of the patient through the use of the nursing process and provides patient and family or significant other teaching for the preoperative, intraoperative, postoperative, and home care for the ambulatory surgery patient.
• Maintains standards of professional nursing practice for the preoperative and postoperative phase of the ambulatory surgery patient, their family and/or significant other.
• Coordinate patient care with other team members and assigns duties in accordance with patient’s needs and the personnel’s capabilities and qualifications. Directs, supervises, and evaluates nursing care provided to patient by other nursing team members.
• Performs assessments, interprets data, and delivers all nursing care with an age-appropriate focus.
• Assumes on call responsibilities for recovery room.

Our Mission is to provide excellent healthcare services by highly skilled staff in a compassionate and caring manner. We know that our employees are essential to the care we provide!

Our core values are as follows: Courtesy, Respect, Caring, Professionalism, Confidentiality, Integrity, and Accountability.

Day Shift PACU – RN – PRN