Flowood
Job Description The Pre-Op/PACU Nurse will provide quality care to surgical patients via monitoring, assessment, intervention, and medication administration in the Ambulatory Surgery Center in Flowood. The Pre-Op/PACU Nurse will collaborate with coworkers to achieve departmental goals and objectives in accordance with established policies. Responsibilities: • Assess, instruct, and prepare patients prior to surgery, • Perform safe and individualized nursing care for the patient in the immediate postoperative/post-anesthesia period, • Ensure operative and informed consents are signed and correct, • Assess patients and take/record vital signs to ensure readiness for surgical procedure, • Initiate IV’s and ensure patients are informed about the procedures, • Document all findings in the patient’s chart, • Communicates effectively with patients, visitors, physicians, and coworkers, • Monitor patients for condition changes, reporting any changes to physicians, • Maintains professional competence by participating in continuing education and other learning experiences, • Continued assessment of post-surgical patients to determine readiness to discharge, • Educate the patient/family member on the procedure and follow-up care, • Active Registered Nursing License – licensed to work in MS, • Must possess general clinical competency in acute patient care, • Must demonstrate aptitude for maintaining pace of abbreviated patient encounters, • Must demonstrate the ability to gather pertinent medical history and provide concise instruction for pre-operative care, • Nursing experience in a perioperative setting preferred, • Documentation of current BLS certification (ACLS and PALS preferred)