PACU RN
Saint Louis, Missouri
Barnes-Jewish Hospital

PACU RN Travel Contract

Overview

• Specialty: Registered Nurse
• Location: Saint Louis, Missouri
• Employment type: Travel/Contract
• Shift: Day, 4x10 hours, 8:00 AM–6:30 PM
• Contract length: 13 weeks
• Setting: Short-term acute care, Level I trauma center, Magnet and teaching hospital

Role Summary

• Critical care RN for procedural pre-op and post-op recovery for endoscopy and interventional radiology patients
• Patient population includes adults, occasional adolescents, and geriatric patients
• Unit recovers a broad range of surgical patients, including neurosurgery, ENT, plastics, orthopedics, thoracic, vascular, trauma, general, colorectal, GYN, urological, electrophysiology, interventional radiology, and transplant cases
• Does not recover open heart surgeries or liver transplants

Required Qualifications

• Valid RN license in Missouri
• PACU - Post Anesthesia Care (2 years of experience)
• PACU - Post Anesthesia Care experience within the last year
• BLS - Basic Life Support issued by American Heart Association
• ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support issued by American Heart Association
• Associate of Science in Nursing / Associate Degree in Nursing
• Critical care experience
• Dysrhythmia recognition and management
• Blood product administration
• Intravenous vasopressor administration
• Intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring
• Care of ventilated patients
• Preoperative experience
• Experience with Epic

Skills Needed

• Epic familiarity
• Inpatient experience
• Dysrhythmia recognition and management
• Blood product administration
• Phlebotomy
• Starting IVs
• IV vasopressors
• ICP monitoring
• Care of ventilated patients

Work Expectations

• No weekends, holidays, or call
• Floating may be required within scope to PACU or PreOp units
• First-time travelers accepted
• Local candidates are not accepted; home address must be at least 75 miles from the facility
• No more than 7 days of requested time off
• Night shift staff would need to learn pre-op workflow

Compliance / Pre-Start Items

• Government-issued ID
• Background check
• Education verification
• Professional license verification
• References: 2 professional references
• Employment application
• Skills checklist
• Physical exam within 1 year of start
• Fit mask testing
• TB documentation
• Drug screen within 1 year of start
• Flu vaccination or approved exemption during flu season
• HIPAA acknowledgement
• Latex allergy questionnaire
• Confidentiality form
• Regulatory compliance education
• Hep B declination
• Hand hygiene policy acknowledgment
• Fingernail policy acknowledgment
• Dress code policy acknowledgment
• Orientation modules for RNs
• Vehicle registration form for day shifts

Additional Notes

• Guaranteed hours: 3 shifts per 13 weeks
• Average daily census: 70–90
• Unit has 38 patient bays
• Scrub color: Navy Blue