Registered Nurse / RN Pacu

Overview

Join our team as a evening shift, full-time, Recovery Room A (PACU) Registered Nurse in Westwood, NJ.

Fulfilling your purpose begins here:

People First, Always. Here's how we take care of our people:

• Medical, vision, dental health insurance, health savings account / flexible spending, competitive pay, paid time off, 401k retirement plan with company match, employee assistance program and more.

Your team is bigger than your department:

• Hackensack Meridian Pascack Valley Medical Center is a 128-bed, full-service, acute-care community hospital with a new emergency department, a state-of-the-art maternity center, a women's imaging center, and an ICU.

• We believe healthcare is a team sport and every player has something to contribute. We show compassion, celebrate differences and treat one another with respect

Responsibilities

• PACU staff provides care for patients recovering from general, regional, or local anesthesia. Unless complicationsoccur, most patients only stay in the PACU for a few hours before returning home or to another department of the hospital.

• The PACU staff, generally composed of highly trained nurses, performs many tasks vital to the care of post-anesthesia and post- operative patients. These essential activities include:

• Monitoring vital signs (heart rate, blood pressure, temperature and respiratory rate)

• Treating symptoms of postoperative nausea and vomiting (or PONV)

• Managing post-operative pain

• Treating post-anesthetic shivering

• Monitoring surgical site(s) for excessive bleeding, discharge, swelling, hematoma, redness, etc.

• Additionally, PACU RNs often coordinate the delivery of care for post-anesthesia patients immediately following surgical procedures, so that the physical, psychological, safety, rehabilitative and education needs of patients and their family members are met.

Qualifications

Job Requirements:

• Current valid NJ State Professional Registered Nurse license or a valid multistate Registered Nurse License from the NCL required.

• 2 years minimum as OR, PACU, critical care or Same Day surgery experience

• Basic Life Support (BLS) by the American Heart Association (AHA) or the American Red Cross (ARC) required.

• Advance Cardiac Life Support certification (ACLS) by the American Heart Association (AHA) or the American Red Cross (ARC) required.

• Pediatric Advance Life Support (PALS) by the American Heart Association (AHA) or the American Red Cross (ARC) required.

Preferred Job Requirements:

• CNOR or CPAN preferred

• Certification in specialty preferred.