Travel Nurse RN - PACU - Post Anesthesia Care
Albany, GA
ADN Healthcare
3x12 hrs, Nights
Referral Bonus

PACU RN

Overview

• Location: Albany, Georgia
• Schedule: 3 twelve-hour shifts per week, plus call rotation
• Shift pattern: Days and nights rotate monthly
• Call coverage includes 2–3 weeknight call shifts in a four-week schedule and every 4th weekend
• Must be able to arrive in the unit within 30 minutes when called
• Contract length: 17 weeks

Required Qualifications

• ACLS
• PALS
• CPR
• Experience with Hospital Post Anesthesia Recovery, including General, Regional, and Conscious Sedation recovery for all age ranges and patient types

Experience / Clinical Skills

• Drains: Cranial, Spinal, Hemovacs, Chest Tubes
• Airway management including OAW, NAW, OETT, and extubation
• Ventilators, Trach, and OETT care
• Hemodynamic monitoring
• Malignant Hyperthermia
• Post-op pain, nausea, and B/P medications
• Medications used during general anesthesia
• Initiation and maintenance of drips: Heparin, Sedation, and Pressers
• Fundal massages, Post-Partum Hemorrhage management, and common OB complications management
• Bladder irrigation maintenance
• Post-op carotid care including neuro assessments, sheath removal, site monitoring, and A-lines maintenance and removal

Common Surgical Procedures

• Critical Care: Cranis, Thoracotomies, Traumas, ICU holds, Medical/Surgical
• Pediatrics: Tonsils, Adenoids, Ear Tubes, Foreign Body Removal, Hernia Repairs, Dental Restorations
• OB/GYN: C/S, Cerclage, Post-Partum Bleeds, Hysterectomies, Vaginal tacking’s, D&C, Ex Laps
• Cardiac: Carotids, Vascular stents and bypasses, Pace makers, Ablations, AAA, EVAR, TEVAR, Angiograms, Dialysis Grafts
• Ortho/Neuro: Joints, Fractures, Laminectomies, Back and Neck Fusions, Pinnings, Closed/Open reductions, knee and shoulder scopes
• General: Colostomies, Appendectomies, Cholecystectomies, Ex Laps, Whipples
• Urology: Proctectomy, TURPS, ESWL, Cysto, Nephrectomy, Cystectomies
• Plastics: Breast Reeducations / Implants, Abdominal Plasty
• ENT: Parotid, Tongue/Laryngeal Biopsy, Thyroids, Eyes
• PACU Procedures: Cardioversions, TEEs, Blood Patches, Lines and Blocks

Additional Notes

• Strict 75-mile radius rule based on the address on the traveler’s driver’s license
• Driver’s license address must be included in the submission