least7500.00 Sign on bonus for qualified RN Candidates
Ready for a role that supports your unique calling in patient care and fits your life. At Parkridge Medical Center, youll find clear pathways to advance backed by our unmatched nationwide transfer policy that lets you grow your career when the time is right for you. With mentorship opportunities, clinical education courses, professional certification support, and educational assistance, you will have all the resources you need to build the career of a lifetime.
Job Summary and Qualifications
As a PACU Registered Nurse, you will play a critical role in the immediate post-operative care of surgical patients. Your responsibilities will include:
• Managing airway support • Closely monitoring neurological and cardiac status • Responding promptly to any complications or side effects • Providing initial wound care to the patients surgical site • Ensuring patient stability during recovery • Collaborating with the surgical and anesthesia team
This role includes on-call availability during select non-business hours, which will be discussed in the interview.
Position Details
• Self-Preferential Scheduling posted four weeks in advance • Supportive visible leadership that promotes a collaborative, respectful team culture where nurses are empowered to ask questions, seek help, and provide valuable input • Staffing Support from Certified Nurse Assistants, Patient Care Techs, Charge Nurses, and an RN float pool internal to HCA Healthcare, available as a staffing resource as needed • Rounding with unit leaders, including charge nurses, to ensure your voice is heard on suggestions for patient care
What you will do in this role
• Deliver high-quality patient-centered care while managing evidence-based practices and continuous improvement initiatives • Be an integral member of a dynamic interdisciplinary team - consisting of the providers, therapy, and more • Consistently apply the nursing process, critical thinking skills, scientific judgment, technical skills, and leadership to independently deliver safe nursing care to patients • Assess patient condition, monitor throughout your shift, and document changes in patient condition along with the care provided thoroughly • Educate patients and families, caregivers about the patients medical condition, treatment, and follow-up measures
Qualifications
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date • Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date • PALS Pediatric Adv Life Supt must be obtained within 6 months of employment start date • RN Registered Nurse • Associate Degree • At least 1 year of critical care experience required (ICU, ER, PACU)
Benefits
Parkridge Medical Center 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 401k 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
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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.
Parkridge Medical Center is a 270-bed hospital. We are near downtown Chattanooga. We feature comprehensive diagnostic medical and surgical services, including cardiovascular surgery and cancer treatment, intensive care, orthopedic and spine surgery, and rehabilitation. The facility includes a state-of-the-art neurosurgery program. Patients also have access to OB-GYN services, a level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and NICU and behavioral health treatment centers for children and adults.
Nurses play a pivotal role and are the backbone of healthcare delivery. At HCA Healthcare, we are dedicated to ensuring nurses have necessary tools and resources to provide world-class patient care, advocating for the profession, and helping to shape the future of nursing.
Sammie Mosier, DHA, MA, BSN, NE-BC Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Executive, HCA Healthcare
Join a family that cares about every stage in your career. We are interviewing candidates for our PACU Nurse opening. Apply today, and a member of our Talent Acquisition team will reach out.
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At its founding in 1968, Nashville-based HCA was one of the nation's first hospital companies. Today, we are the nation's leading provider of healthcare services, a company comprised of locally managed facilities that includes about 165 hospitals and 115 freestanding surgery centers in 20 states and England and employing approximately 204,000 people. Approximately four to five percent of all inpatient care delivered in the country today is provided by HCA facilities. Richard M. Bracken serves as Chairman of HCA and R. Milton Johnson is the company's President and Chief Executive Officer.
HCA is committed to the care and improvement of human life and strives to deliver high quality, cost effective healthcare in the communities we serve. Building on the foundation provided by our Mission & Values, HCA puts patients first and works to constantly improve the care we give them by implementing measures that support our caregivers, help ensure patient safety and provide the highest possible quality. Investing in our communities is important to us. HCA typically invests about $1.5 billion annually to keep our facilities modern and up-to-date technologically and to expand and add services where needed. Focusing primarily on communities where the company is a leading healthcare provider, HCA selectively adds new facilities in order to better serve our communities.
And because two HCA founders were physicians, we value highly the strong relationships we've created with local physicians. We endeavor to provide them with a wide array of services and modern facilities in order to help them deliver the best possible care.