PRN Preop PACU Nurse — Ambulatory Surgery Center

HCA Healthcare, Inc.; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 55,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Wellbeing support

Paid time off

Retirement savings (401k)

Education support

Fertility & family benefits

Job summary

Ambulatory Surgery Center Tampa, part of HCA Healthcare, is seeking a Perioperative Nurse for PRN coverage. You will plan, execute, and evaluate nursing care preoperatively and postoperatively until discharge, upholding the network’s patient-centered values.

Responsibilities include preparing care areas, ensuring equipment readiness, performing comprehensive assessments, administering pre-operative meds, managing IV therapy, and verifying discharge criteria.

Qualifications

• Active RN license required
• BCLS certification required upon employment (online cert not acceptable)
• ACLS required within 30 days of hire
• PALS if required by facility within 30 days of hire
• Associate Degree in Nursing or RN Diploma or higher nursing degree required

Responsibilities

• Prepare patients’ care area before case
• Ensure availability of equipment and supplies for procedures
• Conduct complete physical and psychological assessment and review history/tests
• Administer pre-operative medications and IV therapy as prescribed
• Insert, maintain, and remove IV catheters and saline locks
• Check dressings/oper operative site and report abnormalities
• Ensure patients meet discharge criteria

Skills

RN license

BCLS

ACLS

PALS

PACU experience

Nursing degree

Education

Associate Degree in Nursing

RN Diploma

Higher nursing degree

Job description

Ambulatory Surgery Center Tampa, part of HCA Healthcare, is seeking a Perioperative Nurse for PRN coverage. You will plan, execute, and evaluate nursing care preoperatively and postoperatively until discharge, upholding the network’s patient-centered values.

Responsibilities include preparing care areas, ensuring equipment readiness, performing comprehensive assessments, administering pre-operative meds, managing IV therapy, and verifying discharge criteria.