RN - PACU

Location Address:

2100 N Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blvd Clovis, NM 88101-9412

Compensation Pay Range:

Minimum Offer $39.69 Maximum Offer $58.17

Summary:

Ready to make a meaningful impact the moment patients leave the OR?

Join our team as a Recovery Room RN and bring your critical thinking, compassion, and expertise to a fast-paced, rewarding environment. If you're passionate about exceptional post-op care and looking for a place where your skills truly matter, we want to meet you!

How you grow, learn and thrive matters here.

• Educational and career development options, including tuition and certification reimbursement, scholarship opportunities
• Staff Safety (a wearable badge that allows nurses to quickly and discreetly call for help when safety is a concern)
• Differentials for night/weekend shifts, higher education, certifications and various lead roles (for eligible positions)
• Malpractice liability insurance
• Loan forgiveness through the New Mexico Higher

Education

• Department

• EPIC electronic charting system

• Type of Opportunity: Full time

• FTE: 0.90

• Job Exempt: No

• Work Shift: Weekday Schedule Monday-Friday (United States of America)

• Responsibilities:

• Sign on and relocation benefits available to qualified candidates!

• In this role, you will be responsible for utilizing the nursing process to provide direct patient care to an assigned group of patients during a shift. As well as responsible for prioritizing the delivery of direct nursing care using time and resources efficiently integrating a standards based framework model

Additional Job Duties:

• Provides direct patient care by assessing, planning, implementing, evaluating, and documenting individual patient needs, actions taken and patient responses.
• Coordinates patients care through collaboration with the patient/family and healthcare team.
• Performs assessments as per unit standards and documents on appropriate data base/assessment flow sheet.
• Initiates, utilizes and documents appropriate protocols and standards of care
• Administers medication and treatments as prescribed by physician, or standard protocols and documents according to policy.
• Identifies and meets patient and family learning and discharge needs on admission and throughout episode of care.
• Evaluates patient progression toward outcomes per unit standards and documents through EOSS etc.
• Performs competently in emergency situations.
• Delegates or assigns aspects of patient care to healthcare team members commensurate with their validated competency to perform the task.
• Provides leadership through communication about and validation of patient care.
• Assists with various procedures, treatments, surgical techniques or delegate/assign to other healthcare team members as appropriate.
• Completes patient population/age specific/procedure and protocol education and competency testing per unit standards.
• Demonstrates competency in required psychomotor skills.
• Assists in orientation of new staff or students, and serve as a resource person and professional role model.
• Assumes professional responsible for current nursing structure and clinical standards of care.
• Assumes responsibility for the clinical supervision of LPNs and non-licensed assertive personnel.
• Incorporates PHS mission (VVPS) in care-giving activities.
• Supports DON philosophies of shared governance and models of care delivery.
• Meets requirements of PRN connection agreement.
• Demonstrates flexibility in meeting patient care needs in other departments through floating within cluster.
• Assumes other leadership roles (i.e. relief charge nurse) as required by the department.

Meets professional requirements as follows: Performance Standards:

• 1. Participates in unit/department governance
• 2. Adheres to PHS dress code for professionals, including display of ID badge.
• 3. Documents own continuing education.
• 4. Maintains positive communication and relationships with patients, peers and other healthcare team members.
• 5. Participates in quality improvement activities.
• 6. Maintains a punctual and reliable attendance record.
• 7. Completes mandatory inservices, competencies and licensure requirements on time.
• 8. Adheres to safety and equipment policies.

• Performs other functions as required.

Qualifications

• Associate Degree in Nursing

• State of New Mexico or Compact State Nursing License or Compact Licensure

• BLS certification REQUIRED at time of hire

• ICU or Emergency Room Experience preferred.

• ACLS: Recovery Room- Required

• PALS: Recovery Room- Required

• We're all about well-being, starting with yours.

• Presbyterian employees have access to a fun, engaging and unique wellness program, including free on-site and community-based gyms, nutrition coaching and classes, mindfulness and meditation resources, wellness challenges and more.

• Learn more about our employee benefits.

• About Presbyterian Healthcare Services

• Presbyterian exists to improve the health of patients, members, and the communities we serve. We are locally owned, not-for-profit healthcare system of nine hospitals, a statewide health plan and a growing multi-specialty medical group. Founded in New Mexico in 1908, we are the state's largest private employer with nearly 14,000 employees - including more than 1600 providers and nearly 4,700 nurses.

• Our health plan serves more than 580,000 members statewide and offers Medicare Advantage, Medicaid (Centennial Care) and Commercial health plans.

• AA/EOE/VET/DISABLED. PHS is a drug-free and tobacco-free employer with smoke free campuses.

• Compensation Disclaimer

• The compensation range for this role takes into account a wide range of factors, including but not limited to experience and training, internal equity, and other business and organizational needs.

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