Pre-Op/PACU Nurse

Details: Date Posted:  07 / 16 / 2012 Facility:  Bon Secours Surgery Center at Virginia Beach Surgery Center Job Category:  Clinical Job Summary: Provides direct nursing care to patients by performing the following duties. Specific functions can vary depending on area to which employee is assigned (i.e., pain management, pre-operative, pre-assessment, post anesthesia recovery and/or step-down recovery units). Essential Duties and Responsibilities: include the following. Other duties may be assigned. • Prepares patients for surgery by providing pre-operative and post-operative instructions. • Administers to the assessment of physical, pain and emotional needs of patients and considers same for their families as appropriate. • Understands and interprets physician's orders; reviews lab values, EKG's and x-ray reports. Checks the accuracy of admission paperwork (history, consents, instructions, etc.). Assessment and documentation of patients’ medical histories, including allergies and other assessment parameters, per policy. • Provides prescribed medications and other pharmaceutical products in accordance with physician's orders. Understands and interprets medication dosages, contraindications and side effects. • Initiates safe practices and is knowledgeable about current center policies and procedures. Specific procedures and practices related to pain management assessment and identification, abuse and neglect, sentinel events and response, variance reporting, response to sentinel event alerts, participation in root cause analysis and other key policies and procedures is required. • Ensures that Standard Universal Precautions and the principles of aseptic and sterile technique are used appropriately. • Implements safe practices and provides knowledgeable guidance and evaluation of the environment of care management including life safety (fire prevention), security, hazardous materials and waste management, emergency preparedness, infection control, and the safe use of medical equipment and utilities. • Provides assessment of physical, mental, pain and psychosocial health status of the infant (6 mths or older), child, adolescent, adult and geriatric patient populations. • Participates in patient/family discharge teaching for the surgery center’s patient population and their families. • Responsibility to use the AT&T Language Line for interpretation of general medical or other instructional items, including consent, as may be required in lifting the language barriers. Hearing-impaired individuals require a certified deaf interpreter during all phases of the peri-operative process. • Assesses and evaluates patient condition pre and post operatively and communicates to physician and anesthesia personnel any changes in patient status. • Accurately documents patient care and supplies provided to the patient. Our Pre-Op/PACU Nurses enjoy: See patient at beginning and end of surgery No calls/weekends/holidays CE's available And there is a possible career path to PACU Manager!

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