Registered Nurse – FT Days – PACU

Working Nurse; Pasadena (CA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Working Nurse in Pasadena, CA is seeking a PACU RN responsible for coordinating care to meet identified patient and family needs. The role emphasizes critical thinking, the nursing process, discharge planning, resource identification, and linking patients with required services.

The PACU RN provides concentrated observation and care for patients of all ages during the immediate post-anesthesia period and collaborates with physicians and other health care team members to ensure a seamless

Responsibilities

• Coordinate patient care across the health care continuum and assist team members in meeting patient needs.
• Provide concentrated observation and care for post-anesthesia patients and facilitate care transfer across departments.

Job description

Responsible for coordination of care to meet identified needs of the patient/family. Supervises the management of patient care utilizing critical thinking and nursing process, discharge planning, resource identification, linking and scheduling patients with required services, monitoring care delivery, advocating for the patient, care planning and evaluating outcomes.

Coordinates patient care across the health care continuum, and assists other team members with meeting individual patient needs. The PACU RN provides concentrated observation and care of patients of all ages during the immediate post anesthesia period and facilitates the patients care through a collaborative effort with physicians and other health care team members, including transfer on a continuum of care to the appropriate department. This position may require flexibility of hours.