Travel PACU RN - $2,803 per week

TalentBurst, Inc is seeking a travel nurse RN PACU - Post Anesthesia Care for a travel nursing job in Santa Rosa, California.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: PACU - Post Anesthesia Care
• Discipline: RN
• Duration: 18 weeks
• 40 hours per week
• Shift: 10 hours, days
• Employment Type: Travel

For Pre/Post the start times vary dependent on the area they are assigned for the day. We will need someone flexible in their schedule. Additionally, nurses scheduled for PACU are expected to stay and finish the day. Outpatient surgery does not have shift relief unfortunately.

Job Description
Start date: ASAP (They do work some variable shifts but mainly 8:30)
First Time Traveler: Yes
Ratios:
Years of experience: 1 year experience
Weekend REQ:CA state license: Yes
Pending License accepted: Yes
RTO Restrictions: No more than 7 days

Hospital Highlights
Type of Facility: Acute Care Facility
Scrub Color: scrubs or business casual

Job Requirements & Qualifications

• Previous Charge Experience:
  -
• Years of Experience:
  1 year(s)
• Patient Ratio Experience:
  -
• Charting System:
  Required, Epic
• Teaching Hospital Experience:
  -
• Community Hospital Experience:
  -
• LTAC Experience:
  -
• Trauma Level I Experience:
  -
• Trauma Level II Experience:
  -
• Travel Experience Required:
  No
• Certfications:Certs marked with * are preferred
  ACLS, BLS, PALS

• Skills:Skills marked with * are preferred

  Respiratory

  End-Tidal CO2 monitoring
  Airway assessment

  IV therapy/Phlebotomy

  Accessing/Managing Ports*
  Blood Product Administration
  Central line care/management*
  Phlebotomy
  PICC line care and management*
  Starting and maintaining IVs

  Work Settings

  Ambulatory/Outpatient
  Inpatient*
  Pain Management*
  Pedi PACU*
  Phase I PACU
  Phase II Recovery
  Pre-Post

  Plastics

  Breast augmentation*

  Ophthalmology

  Cataract extraction/implant*

  Gastrointestinal

  Cholecystectomy*

  Orthopedics

  Circulation Checks*

  Types of Anesthesia

  Conscious Sedation*
  General*
  Local*
  Monitored Anesthesia Care (MAC)*
  Nerve Blocks*
  Post-epidural management*

  Pre/Post Op Care of the Patient

  Discharge Instructions
  Follow up phone calls
  Medication reconciliation
  Obtain 12 lead EKG/ECG
  Pre-op Assessment
  Pre-op Education
  Pre-Op Medications
  Pre/Post Operative procedures
  Review History and Physical

  Cardiac Monitoring

  Dysrhythmia recognition/management

  Surgery Cases

  Endo/Laparoscopic
  ENT
  General
  Gyn
  Ophthalmology
  Ortho
  Plastics
  Podiatry
  Urology
  Vascular

  Endocrine

  Hyperglycemia/Hypoglycemia Protocols
  Insulin protocols

  Professional Topics and Skills

  Interpretation and communication of lab values
  Isolation Precautions/PPE
  Malignant Hyperthermia Protocol
  Pain assessment & management
  RASS (Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale)

  Pediatrics

  Management of pediatric patients*

  Gynecology

  Mastectomy*

  Medications

  Narcotics/Opioid Analgesics
  Procedural Sedation Administration/Monitoring
  Reversal agents

  ENT

  Tonsillectomy*

  Genitourinary/Renal

  TURP*

JobDiva # 26-36239 (M)

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