Travel Nurse RN - PACU - Post Anesthesia Care
Lexington, NC
TalentBurst, Inc
4x10 hrs, Days

itle: PACU Registered Nurse

Location: Lexington North Carolina 27292

Duration: 13 Weeks

Shift: 12hr Day Shift - 36

Shift Information: 0700-1900

Clinical Interviewing- No

On Call, Call Back Requirements: 1 weeknight per week, 1700-0700 ▪ 30-minute response

Weekend Rotation: Every 5th- 6th weekend, call only. Saturday 0700 – Monday 0700

Holiday Requirements: 1-2 holiday per year, call only

Floating Requirements: None

About Facility:

• 96 licensed beds
• Primary Stroke Center
• Not Trauma Designated
• Teaching hospital with residents
• Not a Chest Pain Center

Unit Information:

• Beds: 10 PACU bays
  • Census: Average patients/day: 400 cases/month,

Minimum Years of Experience required: 3 years of PACU experience
Will you accept a first-time traveler: Yes

Patient Types/Common Diagnoses:

• Ortho (total joints, sports medicine), general, urology, DaVinci, GYN, ENT, Peds (dental), podiatry, scar revisions
• Regional anesthesia, blocks
• No spine, cardiothoracic, cranial, or high-level surgeries

Patient Ratios:

• 1:1-2, depending on case and acuity

Required License, National Certification, Certs:

• BLS, ACLS, PALS

Skills required:

• Experience with above patient types
• Phase I recovery of general anesthesia, MAC anesthesia, moderate sedation. If phase 2 is backed up, could be doing phase 2 recovery and discharge in Phase I.
• Do not need to have experience with this, but could scrub in and gown up for the OR and help hold a retractor or a camera. Will not need to act as circulating OR RN but could just assist with this portion. This could happen on call-back
• EPIC Experience

Support within the Department:

• OR Assistant might be able to help with transport, but no CNA
• OR Charge RN, no PACU Charge RN
• Management available during the day
• 4-5 RNs for PACU
• Phlebotomy
• RT 24/7
• Hospitalist 24/7
• Anesthesiologists/CRNAs
• Surgeons

Technology/Equipment:

• EMR: EPIC – required
• IV Pump: Alaris
• Med dispensing: Omnicell

Floating: 

• No

Orientation (facility and unit):

• NEO
• 1 week

Other notes:

• Scrub Color: Provided, locker will be provided in locker room
• Parking: Free
• Unit Culture:

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