Pediatric Pre-Op/PACU Nurse — Part-Time

Phoenix Children's; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 55,000 - 69,000; Part time

Job summary

Phoenix Children's is seeking a part-time nurse to join the Pre and Post-Op team in Phoenix. You will collaborate with the healthcare team to deliver professional nursing care appropriate to patients' age and condition, following evidence-based standards and hospital goals.

Responsibilities include comprehensive nursing assessments, ongoing patient and family education, documentation, and coordination of care with rounds and conferences.

Responsibilities

• Completes nursing assessment of patient conditions consistent with age and condition, including physical, psychological, social, developmental, and educational factors, to determine initial level of compliance with treatment plan per policy and unit guidelines. Performs ongoing patient and family assessments and identifies variations from diagnoses.
• Continually evaluates patient responses to care, teaching, and discharge plans. Documents patient progress in appropriate charts and shares observations and assessment outcomes with healthcare team and families to ensure timely communication and understanding of patient health status, progress, and ongoing needs.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing required activities within established parameters to ensure compliance with all applicable medication, storage and documentation standards, regulations, and requirements.
• Provides orientation to the unit, hospital systems, and processes to patients and family members to ensure familiarity with unit's policies and requirements.
• Supervises patient care activities of assigned team members and delegates activities appropriate to knowledge, skill, and competency. Provides timely feedback and review of care delivery to ensure maintenance of patient safety, infection control procedures, therapeutic environment, and team members’ performance level, maintaining confidentiality as appropriate.
• Works collaboratively with patient care team and family members to establish and implement plan of care to ensure coordination of activities and ongoing communication of patient health status. Participates in patient care rounds and patient care conferences as appropriate.
• Fosters a positive learning environment by modeling best practices and patient-centered care while providing guidance, training, and support to students and new employees through mentorship, clinical instruction, and knowledge sharing
• Performs miscellaneous job related duties as requested.

Job description

Phoenix Children's is seeking a part-time nurse to join the Pre and Post-Op team in Phoenix. You will collaborate with the healthcare team to deliver professional nursing care appropriate to patients' age and condition, following evidence-based standards and hospital goals.

Responsibilities include comprehensive nursing assessments, ongoing patient and family education, documentation, and coordination of care with rounds and conferences.