RN / REGISTERED NURSE - POST ANESTHESIA CARE UNIT (PACU)

Why Beebe?

Become part of the Beebe team - an inclusive team positioned in a vibrant, coastal community. Enjoy a fulfilling career as you support the health of our patients and a team focused on excellence.

Join our Nursing Team and Cultivate your Career:

At Beebe, we care about your professional nursing path and want to foster the growth and development of your career. Whether you decide to further your education, gain professional certifications, learn a new specialty area, educate or lead - we support it all. We do so by offering a nursing graduate residency program, clinical ladder, professional certification reimbursement, certification preparation curriculums, generous tuition assistance, flexible scheduling and shared governance where you can help guide nursing professional practice and have a voice as a bedside nurse.

Benefits

In addition to competitive compensation and wellness benefits (medical, dental, vision and prescription) Beebe Healthcare also offers:
Sign-on and Referral Bonuses for select positions
Tuition Assistance up to $5,000
Paid Time Off
Long Term Sick accrual
Employer Contribution Plan
Free Short and Long-Term Disability for Full Time employees
Zero copay for drugs on prescription plan for certain conditions
College Bound 529 Savings Plan
Life Insurance
Beebe Perks via WorkAdvantage
Employee Assistance Program
Pet Insurance

Overview

Are you a passionate and skilled Registered Nurse (RN) with expertise in the Perioperative field? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, high-acuity environment, delivering quality care with precision and compassion? If so, we invite you to join the Beebe Healthcare team as a PACU RN and contribute to our mission of providing exceptional patient care in the heart of Delaware.

This position requires on-call work with a 30 minute response time.

Responsibilities

• Identifies, labels, and dispenses medications and solutions safely and per established guidelines. Demonstrates competency with insertion of intravenous lines.
• Demonstrates competency with LIS lab and Invision process.
• Accepts personal accountability for proper handling, judicious use, and optimum care of all department supply, instrument, and equipment inventory.
• Utilizes the nursing process throughout the perioperative setting per patient assessment-collecting, interpreting, recording, and communicating pertinent data relevant to patient care in surgery; care planning-utilization of collected data to plan appropriately for intraoperative nursing care; implementing-provides direct patient care to meet physical and psychological needs; evaluating care-continuously evaluates patient response to nursing intervention and modifies care plan to achieve desired outcome.
• Demonstrates and conveys theoretical knowledge and skills related to perioperative nursing care-understands the "why" concept as well as the "how" process.
• Thorough/Accurate/Complete documentation of post-operative patient care. Demonstrates competency with usage of the Cardiac Monitor.
• Demonstrates competency with airway assessment and management-O2 therapy, ventilator management, assisting with intubation and estuation, etc.
• Understands, demonstrates, and conveys knowledge related to patient assessment and care with the pain management process.
• Effectively demonstrates critical thinking, prioritization of duties, and time management skills throughout the perioperative arena.
• Collects adequate and correct blood/urine specimens from patients as ordered by physicians, using proper technique and equipment.
• Correctly labels specimens and processes.
• Ensures appropriate delivery of specimens to the lab via courier or specimen pick up from outside agencies.
• Demonstrates competency with appropriate set up and monitoring or PA lines-Cardiac Output, A-Line, CVP, Swan-Ganz, etc.

Qualifications

• Prefer minimum of 1 year recent PACU or Critical Care or Emergency Nursing experience.
• Must be knowledgeable regarding the nursing process and its application-assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
• At time of hire, we ask that you either have a current active PALS certification or obtain PALS Certification within the first 6 months of hire.

Competencies Skills

Essential:
* Experience In Hospital Or Acute Care Setting
* Clear Communication Skills Both Written And Verbal
* Able To Keep Confidential Information Regarding Patients, Team Members
* Able To Withstand Crisis Situations
* Has Skills To Provides Customer Service To Patients, Team Members And Visitors
* Knowledge And Experience With Electronic Health Records

Credentials

Essential:
* RN - Registered Nurse
* BLS - Basic Life Saving certification
* NIH - Stroke Certification
* ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support
Nonessential:
* PALS - Pediatric Advanced Life Support

Education

Essential:
* RN Diploma/RN Graduate Program

Entry

USD $36.20/Hr.

Expert

USD $59.73/Hr.