Registered Nurse - PACU - Surgical Services - Bayfront Hospital

Job description

Position Summary Administers patient care in an area in a hospital or inpatient setting where patients have an advanced illness or injury that routinely requires timely, intense, and complex care to stabilize and support the patient’s medical condition. These areas require a lower caregiver-to-patient ratio and highly trained team members with advanced skills. Responsibilities: Essential Functions: - Demonstrates critical knowledge, skills, and judgement to care for patients requiring complex assessment and therapies, high intensity interventions, and high-level continuous nursing vigilance. - Utilizes information and assessment data to anticipate and respond with confidence and adapt to rapidly changing patient conditions. - Identifies and prioritizes information to take immediate and decisive evidence-based, patient focused action. - Monitors and adjusts specialized equipment used on patients, and interprets and records electronic displays, such as intracranial pressures, central venous pressures, pulmonary artery pressures, and cardiac rhythms from cardiac monitors, respirators,ventilators, oxygen pumps, etc. - Responds to life-saving situations based on nursing standards and pr...