RN Registered Nurse PACU

Ready for a role that supports your unique calling in patient care and fits your life. At HCA Florida Blake Hospital, 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 that is 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.

What Qualifications You Will Need

• Must be licensed as a Florida Registered Nurse in accordance with state regulations or appropriate compact licensure. If compact license held, active FL RN license required within 60 days of hire.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) must be obtained within 6 months of employment start date.
• PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support) must be obtained within 6 months of employment start date.
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date.
• Associate Degree or Registered Nurse Diploma.

Benefits HCA Florida Blake Hospital offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career, and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits: 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.

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

About HCA Florida Blake Hospital HCA Florida Blake Hospital is a 380-bed hospital located in Bradenton, FL. We have a thirteen-acre campus by the Gulf Coast beaches. We are the only state-designated Level II trauma center in Manatee, Sarasota, and DeSoto Counties. We have received verification by the American College of Surgeons. Our services include 24-hour emergency care, open-heart surgery, burn care, cancer care, joint replacement, and inpatient rehabilitation. We are a recipient of the American Heart Associations Gold Fit Friendly Designation.

We have an onsite day care program (Happy Cubs), a 24-hour employee fitness center, and a healthy work environment. We develop our colleagues through cross-training into new units and ongoing skills development. We offer continuing education courses and opportunities for advancement. We also offer great benefits. We hope youll consider a career at HCA Florida Blake Hospital.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the Worlds Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

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 RN (Registered Nurse) PACU opening. Apply today, and a member of our Talent Acquisition team will reach out.

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.