Registered Nurse (RN) - PACU - Post Anesthesia Care
Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
3x12 hrs

Full Time, Days

Up to $20,000 SOB for qualified candidates, paid over 24 months.

Position Summary

The Registered Nurse coordinates and provides safe care to patients utilizing the nursing process of assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation. The nurse directs and coordinates the care of assigned personnel. Performs charge duties as assigned.

• Identifies problems & implements appropriate interventions, assesses skin integrity and risk for falls each shift, patient's response to medications & treatments, and completed per unit protocol.
• Medicates administers, transcribes & documents for pain per protocol and as per hospital policy while adhering to hospital P&P related to blood & blood products administration.
• Observes, collects, documents and accurately records data utilizing nursing process and changes in patient status, reports to physicians & documents actions taken and completes admission & discharge form accurately.
• Develops written plan of care, incorporates teaching component, & collaborates with interdisciplinary team, sets priorities for care of patients based on acuity and/or patient preference, coordinates tests, treatments, etc. with ancillary departments, and initiates appropriate Evidenced Based Medicine tool.
• Identifies the learning needs of patient and/or significant other and/or family & initiates resources to meet these needs on admission, explains procedures & interventions & documents on the education tool, provides adequate information & instructions to the patient/family/significant other through-out hospitalization & discharge according to patient/families ability & willingness to learn.