Travel Nurse RN - PACU - Post Anesthesia Care - $2,720 per week
Prime Staffing
- San Francisco, CA
- 7 days ago
Highlights
The RN will provide specialized post-anesthesia care to adult and geriatric patients recovering from complex surgeries and procedures, including kidney transplants, craniotomies, valve replacements, and spine surgeries. Our extensive network of qualified candidates includes nurses, allied healthcare professionals, corporate support professionals and executives.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | San Francisco, CA |
| Industry | All |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Website | http://www.primestaffingnyc.com/ |
Description
Prime Staffing is seeking a travel nurse RN PACU - Post Anesthesia Care for a travel nursing job in San Francisco, California.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: PACU - Post Anesthesia Care
- Discipline: RN
- Start Date: 11/16/2026
- Duration: 13 weeks
- 40 hours per week
- Shift: 10 hours, days
- Employment Type: Travel
Travel RN – PACU (Post-Anesthesia Care Unit)
Location: San Francisco, CA
Contract Duration: 13 Weeks
Shift: Day | 4x10-hour shifts
Shift Options: 6:30 AM–7:00 PM or 11:00 AM–9:00 PM
Experience Required: Minimum 2 years
Patient Ratio: 1:2
Job Description
Seeking an experienced Travel Registered Nurse (RN) – PACU for a high-acuity inpatient recovery unit. The RN will provide specialized post-anesthesia care to adult and geriatric patients recovering from complex surgeries and procedures, including kidney transplants, craniotomies, valve replacements, and spine surgeries.
Responsibilities
- Provide Phase I and Phase II post-anesthesia recovery care.
- Monitor patients following complex surgical and interventional procedures.
- Assess airways, respiratory status, hemodynamics, pain, and neurological status.
- Manage ventilated patients, IV medications, central lines, and cardiac monitoring as needed.
- Recognize and respond to emergencies and post-operative complications.
- Maintain accurate patient records using Epic EMR.
- Collaborate with surgeons, anesthesiologists, ICU teams, and other healthcare professionals.
- Float to other UCSF facilities or units as required.
Required Qualifications
- Active California RN license in hand.
- BSN required.
- Minimum 2 years of relevant nursing experience.
- High-acuity PACU experience.
- Phase I and Phase II recovery experience.
- Inpatient and Level I Trauma Center experience.
- Epic EMR experience.
- Current AHA BLS, ACLS, and PALS certifications.
- Teaching hospital experience required.
- Two references from the most recent employer must be available at submission.
Preferred Qualifications
- ICU experience, especially SICU, CVICU, or Neuro ICU.
- Previous charge nurse experience.
- CCRN and NIHSS certifications.
- Experience recovering kidney transplant, craniotomy, transaortic valve replacement, spine surgery, and VATS patients.
About Prime Staffing
At Prime Staffing, we understand the importance of finding the perfect fit for both our clients and candidates. Prime Staffing utilizes a unique matchmaking approach, providing the most qualified contingent staffing to our clients, and the most competitive contracts to our workforce. Our experienced team takes the time to get to know both our clients and candidates, their needs, and preferences, to ensure that each placement is a success.
We offer a wide range of staffing services including temporary, temp-to-perm, and direct hire placements. Our extensive network of qualified candidates includes nurses, allied healthcare professionals, corporate support professionals and executives.
About Company
Prime Staffing is one of New York's leading staffing firms specializing in temporary and full-time/permanent placements across multiple industries including; healthcare, business, consulting, finance, legal services, entertainment, media, information Technology(IT) and retail.
Prime Staffing is certified by The Joint Commission for its compliance, and integrity, in supplying superior healthcare staffing services to many of the finest healthcare organizations in the country. In addition to its impeccable reputation for providing travel and per diem health care staffing, Prime has become an integral partner in staffing some of the most prestigious business organizations and Fortune 500 companies in the country including multi-national bank and investment firms, international business consulting firms, global law firms and some of the most prominent media and entertainment outlets.
Prime's success and rapid growth is direct result if its most basic founding principle-provide our clients with the most experienced and qualified employees and, likewise, provide our employees with the best jobs at the top organizations in their respective professional disciplines.
Prime Staffing is a high-energy company with a corporate culture that embraces innovation, new technology and personalized customer service. We are confident in our ability to serve you professionally by placing esteemed and experienced individuals. Our continuous expansions enables us to adapt to the continuously changing needs of our clients and employees. Through our team of seasoned professionals we maintain respect, integrity and superiority in all aspects of our business.
At Prime, we work diligently to recognize your objectives and create programs to meet them. We believe that ardent customer service is an essential component to remaining at the forefront of a competitive marketplace. Prime utilizes its expertise, and decades of combined experience in the industry, to continuously improve, implement cutting-edge programs and maintaining our position in the market as one of the fastest growing firms in the Tri-State area.
It is our goal to build long-term relationships with clients and employees based on a foundation of trust, mutual respect and our expertise in the field of staffing. We guarantee dependability, consistency and security in all aspects of operation. Prime Staffing is the Superior Staffing Solution.