PACU NURSE GI RN

4 weeks ago

Glendale CA USA, United States Lakeside Medical Full time
As one of the fastest growing Independent Physician Associations in Southern California, Regal Medical Group, Lakeside Community Healthcare & Affiliated Doctors of Orange County, offers a fast-paced, exciting, welcoming and supportive work environment. Opportunities abound, and enterprising, capable, focused people prosper with us. We promote teamwork, nurture learning, and encourage advancement for all of our employees. We want to see you excel, because we believe that your success is our success.

* Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:

Clinical Skills

* Assesses patient/significant others understanding of disease process and need for surgical intervention.
* Performs pre/post operative teaching to patient/significant other.
* Demonstrates appropriate nursing management and intervention preoperatively and post operatively.
* Assess the patient for level of recovery from anesthesia.
* Provides effective airway management postoperatively.
* Assesses and manages postoperative complications such as nausea and vomiting.
* Provides wound assessment and management to ensure uncomplicated wound healing.
* Provides safe medication administration.
* Manages patient complications/emergencies preoperatively and postoperatively.
* Utilizes aseptic technique and infection control principles to establish and maintain intravenous access.
* Reports significant patient information to medical staff appropriately.
* Demonstrates skill and knowledge in providing appropriate patient care across the age span.
* Demonstrates compliance with abuse reporting responsibilities.
* Identifies and reports suspected child, spousal/partner, and elder abuse per protocol.
* Demonstrates knowledge and skill in caring for the latex sensitive patient.
* Demonstrates ability to identify latex sensitive patients.
* Communicates to appropriate personnel.
* Initiates and follows procedure protocol.
* Demonstrates appropriate care for the patient experiencing pain.
* Documents pain history and assessment.
* Demonstrates techniques to relieve patient's pain.
* Evaluates effectiveness of technique used.
* Provides patient/family teaching for the management of the patient experiencing pain.
* Documents patient response during recovery.
* Facilitates actions and activities that support accountability to practice.
* Identifies and initiates problem resolution.
* Actively participates, develops, and implements activities and measures promoting quality care.
* Adheres to the pre-op room standards of nursing care.
* Admits patients to pre-op. Obtain and review pre-operative lab work.
* Perform pre-operative interview of patients.
* Observe vital signs, stat and maintain IV's and IV sites, dressing, tubes, drains and any special monitoring equipment.
* Administers pre-operative medications as ordered by the physicians.
* Implements plan of care.

Medical Records

* Demonstrates knowledge of medical record policy and procedure in management of patient information.
* Participates in medical records TQM.

Communication

* Listens respectfully, gives feedback directly, honestly and talks with others to clarify differences.
* Utilizes translation services when needed.
* Utilizes appropriate services when needed to communicate with employees and patients with speech and hearing disorders.
* Effectively communicates and interacts with patients, their family, and other external and internal clients (including fellow employees) from diverse

Quality

* Demonstrates a willingness to look at new ideas and work in a changing environment.
* Understands, verbalizes and participates in the quality improvement process.
* Supports initiatives designed to improve individual and organizational performance.

Performs other duties as directed by management.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

* Education and/or Experience:

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university; or one to two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Language Skills

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

Mathematical Skills

Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

Reasoning Ability

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Computer Skills

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

CA RN License

Other Skills and Abilities

Working knowledge and experience in PACU from hospital or ambulatory surgery center including direct patient care. Ability to adhere to work schedule and manage time appropriately. Ability to utilize resources in a timely, organized and cost effective manner.

Knowledge of patient monitoring equipment.

We offer a full benefits package which includes employer paid medical, pharmacy and dental benefits. We offer a generous PTO package, 401k Retirement Savings, Life Insurance, Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Tuition Reimbursement & Licensed Renewal Fees for our clinical staff.

Employer will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the LA City Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.

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