Registered Nurse (PRN) - Recovery Room, Children's & Women's Hospital

Overview

USA Health is Transforming Medicine along the Gulf Coast to care for the unique needs of our community. USA Health is changing how medical care, education, and research impact the health of people who live in Mobile and the surrounding area. Our team of doctors, advanced care providers, nurses, therapists, and researchers provides the region's most advanced medicine at multiple facilities, campuses, clinics, and classrooms. We offer patients convenient access to innovative treatments and advancements that improve the health and overall well-being of our community.

Responsibilities

• Manage direct preoperative and/or postoperative care of assigned patients that are scheduled for surgery
• Perform all aspects of care within the nursing scope of practice per the Alabama Board of Nursing
• Ensure all surgical patients are appropriately prepared and optimized for surgery
• Appropriately recover all postoperative patients at the bedside per ASPANs guidelines and actively assist patient’s in returning to their pre-anesthesia state
• Collaborate with physicians, surgeons, anesthesiologists, technologist, and other hospital personnel as necessary to provide quality patient care appropriately with all other members of the health care team
• Support the daily operations of the OR and PACU schedules by assisting in patient throughput, efficiently recovering patients, patient assignments,
• effective patient handoff report, and any other areas of improvement.
• Supports surgical case add-ons through collaboration with staff assignments, house supervisor, and transfer center.
• Ensures any patient needing a higher level of care outside of our facility is optimized for transfer and collaborates with EMS, USA Health’s transfer center or outside facility to provide a safe and timely transfer of patient to other facility
• Provide patients and family members or caretakers with information about home recovery and any limitations or restrictions to follow
• Effectively care for any nonsurgical patient that is boarded in PACU and provide the same level of care as the targeted unit would
• Ability to work in a stressful environment
• Ability to care for a variety of patient age groups and acuity levels
• Work well with others
• Adaptability to unit and patient care needs
• Able to multitask a variety of responsibilities
• Critical thinking skills
• Promote a positive work attitude and provide patient centered care
• Actively develops a sense of team. Initiates and participates in team development
• Maintains professional growth and development through an ongoing process of formal and informal education
• Communicates and uses appropriate customer relation skills with physicians, patients, families and healthcare team in person and via telephone
• Responds to overhead pages
• Accepts and completes all duties positively and without conflict
• Cooperates, helps others and improves the performance of the unit
• Completes all mandatory unit, educational and hospital requirements
• Utilizes cost effective practices in performing all aspects of the job
• Timely, consistent, and accurate handoffs to subsequent caregivers
• Works efficiently and professionally with positive attitude with periop team
• Other duties as assigned/required.
• Participates on Shared Governance as assigned.
• Participates in Performance Improvement activities through quality measurement or participation of ICARE process as assigned.
• Completes all mandatory department, educational and hospital requirements
• Adheres to current Infection Control and Safety Standards
• Regular and prompt attendance
• Ability to work schedule as defined and overtime as required
• Related duties as assigned

Additional Information

Employees must be in a regular position, working 20 hours or more per week (.50 FTE or greater) to qualify for benefits.

Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing meeting the minimum standards set by the State of Alabama Required
• BCLS - Basic Life Support Upon Hire Required
• ACLS - Advanaced Cardiovascular Life Support within 60 Days Required
• PALS - Pediatric Advanced Life Support within 60 Days Required
• Comparable combination of education and experience may substitute for the above requirements.

Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

The University of South Alabama is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status or any other applicable legally protected basis. EO Employer – minorities/females/veterans/disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity.