PreOp PACU Nurse

HCA Healthcare; Anna (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

401(k) with company match

Tuition assistance

Career development opportunities

Job summary

HCA Healthcare's ambulatory surgery center is seeking a PreOp PACU Nurse to plan, execute, and evaluate preoperative and postoperative care until discharge. You will support patient safety and comfort, work with a collaborative team, and uphold high standards of perioperative care.

Responsibilities include preparing care areas, ensuring equipment availability, conducting comprehensive assessments, administering preoperative meds, IV therapy, and maintaining IV access while monitoring discharge

Qualifications

• Associate degree RN or higher required.
• 1+ year nursing experience in PACU/ICU/Surgery.
• Active RN license in state of employment.
• BCLS certification at start; online not acceptable.
• ACLS required within 30 days of hire.
• PALS if required by facility within 30 days of hire.

Responsibilities

• Prepare patients' care area before case.
• Ensure availability of equipment and supplies.
• Conduct complete physical and history assessments.
• Administer pre-operative medications and IV therapy.
• Insert, maintain, and remove IV catheters and saline locks.
• Check dressings and report abnormalities to surgeon.
• Ensure patients meet discharge criteria.

Skills

PACU Nursing

Postoperative care

IV therapy

Patient assessment

RN license

Education

Associate Degree in Nursing

RN Diploma or higher

Job description

As a PreOp PACU Nurse, your voice to influence patient care is valued and empowered at every turn -whether through open, collaborative relationships with your direct manager or more formal opportunities through hospital councils and national nursing initiatives. You'll help shape decisions that elevate both patient outcomes and the future of nursing.

Job Summary and Qualifications

Join our team as a Perioperative Nurse in our ambulatory surgery center. You will be responsible for planning, executing, and evaluating the nursing care rendered preoperatively and postoperatively until your patients are discharged. As a valued addition to our company, you will exhibit the values of Surgery Ventures powered by HCA Healthcare as a whole, as well as your individual center, providing quality care like family.

What you will do in this role:

• Prepare your patients' care area adequately before case

• Ensure availability of necessary equipment and supplies for your patients' procedure

• Conduct complete physical, and psychological assessment and evaluation of your patients' history and diagnostic tests

• Administer pre-operative medications and intravenous therapy as prescribed

• You will exhibit proper technique for insertion, maintenance, and removal of IV catheters and saline locks

• Check dressings and/or operative site of your patients and report abnormalities to the surgeon

• Ensure your patients meet discharge criteria

Qualifications you will need:

• Associate Degree in Nursing or RN Diploma or Higher degree in Nursing Required

• 1+ years of nursing experience in a clinical setting, preferably in PACU, ICU or Surgery

• Active RN license as required by state of employment

• BCLS Certification upon employment. ***online certification not acceptable

• ACLS required within 30-days of hire

• PALS if required by facility within 30-days of hire

Benefits

Medical City Surgery Center of North Texas, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services

• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services

• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence

• Savings and retirement resources , including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling

• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing

• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn more about Employee Benefits (https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/employee-benefits-and-rewards)

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

"Nurses are essential to the delivery of healthcare and serve as its foundation. At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to equipping nurses with the tools and resources they need to deliver exceptional patient care, championing the profession, and supporting the advancement of nursing's future."

Erica Rossitto, MBA/HCM, BSN, RN, NEA-BC

Senior Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive

HCA Healthcare

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.