Overview
Join our team as a day shift, full-time, Recovery Room (PACU) Registered Nurse in Westwood, NJ.
Get to Know Your Team:
- Hackensack Meridian Pascack Valley Medical Center is a 128-bed, full-service, acute-care community hospital with a new emergency department, a state-of-the-art maternity center, a women's imaging center, and an ICU.
Responsibilities
- PACU staff provides care for patients recovering from general, regional, or local anesthesia. Unless complicationsoccur, most patients only stay in the PACU for a few hours before returning home or to another department of the hospital.
- The PACU staff, generally composed of highly trained nurses, performs many tasks vital to the care of post-anesthesia and post- operative patients. These essential activities include:
- Monitoring vital signs (heart rate, blood pressure, temperature and respiratory rate)
- Treating symptoms of postoperative nausea and vomiting (or PONV)
- Managing post-operative pain
- Treating post-anesthetic shivering
- Monitoring surgical site(s) for excessive bleeding, discharge, swelling, hematoma, redness, etc.
- Additionally, PACU RNs often coordinate the delivery of care for post-anesthesia patients immediately following surgical procedures, so that the physical, psychological, safety, rehabilitative and education needs of patients and their family members are met.
Qualifications
Job Requirements:
- Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing
- Current valid NJ State Professional Registered Nurse license or a valid multistate Registered Nurse License from the NCL
- Evidence of continuing education in the field of OR nursing.
- Telemetry Course
- 2 years minimum as OR, PACU, critical care or Same Day surgery experience
- BLS certification must be obtained within 14 days of hire or transfer into the role and prior to providing direct patient care.
- Advance Cardiac Life Support certification (ACLS) by the American Heart Association (AHA) or the American Red Cross (ARC)
- Pediatric Advance Life Support (PALS) by the American Heart Association (AHA) or the American Red Cross (ARC)
Preferred Job Requirements:
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing
- CPAN or CPAN
- Certification in specalty
