PACU RN: High-Acuity Recovery with Day-One Benefits

Orlando Health, Inc.; Orlando (FL); On-site; USD 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Orlando Health ORMC in Orlando, FL seeks a registered nurse for the PACU to care for patients waking from surgery in a high-acuity, high-volume setting. The role collaborates closely with surgical and anesthesia teams to ensure rapid, evidence-based patient stabilization.

Requirements include graduation from an approved nursing program, Florida RN licensure (or eNLC), BLS, and ACLS/TNCC as required for certain areas. Minimum two years of PACU/ICU/ER experience preferred.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an approved school of nursing.
• Meets all mandatory, developmental, and performance competency requirements for Orlando Health and unit/department.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates critical knowledge, skills, and judgement to care for patients requiring complex assessment and therapies, high intensity interventions, and high-level continuous nursing vigilance.
• Utilizes information and assessment data to anticipate and respond with confidence and adapt to rapidly changing patient conditions.
• Identifies and prioritizes information to take immediate and decisive evidence-based, patient focused action.
• Monitors and adjusts specialized equipment used on patients, and interprets and records electronic displays, such as intracranial pressures, central venous pressures, pulmonary artery pressures, and cardiac rhythms from cardiac monitors, respirators, ventilators, oxygen pumps, etc.
• Responds to life-saving situations based on nursing standards and protocol.
• Observes, monitors, and assesses patients’ condition, recognizes, identifies, and interprets serious situations and calls Physician or takes preplanned emergency measures when Physician is not immediately available.
• Assesses patient’s needs and develops/revises an individualized plan of care based on patient needs and responses. Evaluates the patient’s progress toward attaining expected outcomes.
• Respects diversity by building respectful relationships with all team members and customers.
• Functions as a patient and family advocate.
• Demonstrates advanced knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served on his or her assigned unit/ department.
• Serves as a preceptor, charge nurse, unit educator, and/ or nurse clinician.
• Communicates and collaborates with medical staff and interdisciplinary team to effectively plan and manage the unit/department.
• Serves as a role model for staff and supports the hospital and nursing department’s goals and strategies.

Education

Graduate of an approved school of nursing

Job description

Orlando Health ORMC in Orlando, FL seeks a registered nurse for the PACU to care for patients waking from surgery in a high-acuity, high-volume setting. The role collaborates closely with surgical and anesthesia teams to ensure rapid, evidence-based patient stabilization.

Requirements include graduation from an approved nursing program, Florida RN licensure (or eNLC), BLS, and ACLS/TNCC as required for certain areas. Minimum two years of PACU/ICU/ER experience preferred.