Perioperative RN - PACU Care Specialist

Heywood Healthcare Inc.; Gardner, Northern (MA, KY); Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 109,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive wages

Great benefits

Earned time off

Job summary

Heywood Healthcare Inc. in Massachusetts invites experienced registered nurses to join our perioperative and PACU teams. You will assess and plan patient care, provide interventions, and collaborate with surgeons and anesthesia staff to ensure safe, high-quality outcomes.

This role features 24-hour shifts across days and evenings, with on-call duties, and a compensation range of $39.58–$78.93 per hour. We value patient safety, ongoing learning, and teamwork, with comprehensive benefits and

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Minimum 1 year of Med/Surg, ICU, ED or peri-operative services experience.
• Minimum 6 months of recent PACU, SDC or radiology experience preferred.
• Current RN license in MA.
• Current AHA ACLS and PALS certifications are required.
• Excellent communication, critical care and critical thinking skills are a must.
• Must take call per PACU rotation.

Responsibilities

• Assesses (and reassesses), plans, implements, and evaluates nursing interventions/plans of care/patient goals.
• Provides patient care based on standards of care, standards of practice, protocols, and established policies and procedures.
• Respects each patient as an individual; provides care that fosters the patient’s sense of dignity and positive self-regard.
• Provides patient/family teaching based on identified learning needs, readiness to learn, and barriers to learning.
• Collaboratively plans and prepares patient/family for discharge incorporating support systems/resources as necessary.
• Appropriately delegates and supervises nursing interventions performed by others.
• Appropriately prioritizes patient care (e.g. seeks assistance as needed from appropriate resources, reassigns personnel as necessary, recognizes need for emergency intervention, etc.).
• Provides thorough, timely, and accurate documentation of all pertinent data, therapeutic interventions and patient responses according to established standards.
• Provides timely and thorough report on assigned patients to other health care team members to ensure integration of services and continuity of patient care.
• Promotes learning for colleagues and self (e.g. functions as preceptor, instructor, trainer, attends professional development programs, etc.).
• Proactively identifies risk to patient safety and identifies opportunities to reduce medical/health care errors (i.e. appropriate reporting of errors/incidents).
• Identifies ethical issues in care and develops plan to address.
• Safely administers medications and intravenous therapy, in accordance with physician’s orders, protocols, policies and procedures.
• Assesses patient pain level upon admission and as necessary, depending upon diagnosis utilizing the numerical pain scale.

Education

Graduate of an accredited school of nursing

Job description

Heywood Healthcare Inc. in Massachusetts invites experienced registered nurses to join our perioperative and PACU teams. You will assess and plan patient care, provide interventions, and collaborate with surgeons and anesthesia staff to ensure safe, high-quality outcomes.

This role features 24-hour shifts across days and evenings, with on-call duties, and a compensation range of $39.58–$78.93 per hour. We value patient safety, ongoing learning, and teamwork, with comprehensive benefits and