PreOp PACU Registered Nurse

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Description Job Title: Pre-op/PACU Registered Nurse: Position Type: Full time: Details: Days / Monday – Friday / No Call / No Holidays Location: 3025 Dixie Highway, Edgewood, KY 41017 Mission: Our mission is to provide exceptional, efficient, and cost effective orthopaedic surgical services to every patient and family we have the privilege to serve. Job Summary Delivers patient care utilizing the nursing process through data collection and assessment, identifies and determines the priority of patient's problems/needs, and evaluates the process and outcome of nursing care. Provides nursing care to meet patient needs related to surgical condition and type of anesthesia administered, monitoring patient and informing surgeon or anesthesiologist of observed complications. Employment Status Non-Exempt: Duties and responsibilities: 1. Philosophy a) Supports the facility’s ideology, mission, goals, and objectives b) Performs in accordance with the facility’s policies and procedures c) Follows the facility’s standards for ethical business conduct d) Conducts self in a professional manner, and as a positive role model and team member e) Recognizes patients’ rights and responsibilities and su...