RN, PACU - Recovery, CCMC

Company: Community Health System - CA
Location: Clovis
Posted on: May 3, 2024

Job Description:

Overview:
*All positions are located in Fresno/Clovis CA*

If you are a nurse (RN) looking for a position where you can utilize AND grow your critical care experience, our Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) may just be for the place for you to grow your career. As a Registered Nurse in our PACU, you will be key to patient experience post-surgery. From continuous assessment to ensuring patient safety, comfort, continuity of care and post-surgical education, you will have the opportunity to serve a large patient population that is ever-changing.

Clovis Community Medical Center opened at its current location as a 109-bed hospital in 1988. Since then, there's been nothing but growth. Today, Clovis Community has 208 private patient rooms and another 144 under construction. We've added a $68 million freestanding Cancer Institute and other specialty programs and now perform more than 13,000 surgeries annually. With a diverse patient population and the variety of care that we provide, you will be challenged to grow your skills - and will be supported as you do.

Responsibilities:
Your Career at Community - Opportunity. Challenge. Growth.

In your role, you will:

• Utilize the nursing process to identify patient needs for continuous assessment in the PACU.
• Document and evaluate the effectiveness of nursing actions and ensure a safe environment of care.
• Work alongside other departments to ensure continuity of care.
• Provide post-surgical education to patients, creating and maintaining a sterile and safe surgical environment for the patient and monitoring the patient's physical and emotional well-being throughout the surgical care continuum
• Monitoring patients for changes in status and indications of conditions such as sepsis or shock and institute appropriate interventions.
  Schedule
  
  • Limited Time, one 12 hours shift per pay period (2 weeks)
  • 1000 - 2230
  • On-Call Shifts available but not required
    Qualifications:
    Education and Experience Minimum Requirements:
    
    • Graduation from an accredited registered nursing program
    • Minimum 2 years recent ICU, Critical Care, or PACU experience
    • California RN state license
    • BLS Certification
    • ACLS Certification within 6 months of hire or transfer into job
    • PALS Certification within 6 months of hire or transfer into job
      Disclaimers:
      --- Pay ranges listed are an estimate and subject to change.
      --- If any bonuses are noted, they are only applicable to external hires meeting criteria.

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