Job Description
Clinical Nurse PACU at BJC HealthCare summary:
The Clinical Nurse PACU provides direct patient care in a post-anesthesia environment, focusing on the assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation of nursing care. This role includes educating patients and their families about post-treatment care, ensuring quality compliance, and participating in professional development. With a preference for critical care experience, the position promotes patient-centered care in the acclaimed Missouri Baptist Medical Center, recognized for its nursing excellence.
Additional Information About the Role
Missouri Baptist Medical Center
hour shifts
- Pre/post or critical care experience preferred
- Work pre/post-op, outpatient recovery, interventional pulmonology
- Start times vary
- 2-3 call shifts in 6 week schedule
- Weekend call rotation every 8 weeks
- 21 operationg rooms
- Bonus eligible
- Comprehensive benefits
- The BJC Registered Nurse Career Ladder differentiates BJC as the place for nurses to work in the greater St. Louis area.
- This is a tool to empower nurses to work at the top of their license and own their career progression.
- The BJC RN Career Ladder promotes professional development, leadership, collaboration, education and service excellence and gives staff the opportunity to continue doing what they do best - caring for patients - while having the opportunity to advance to the next step in their career.
- Moves to higher ladder levels will result in a percentage increase of current pay that aligns with the new job description.
Overview
Missouri Baptist Medical Center , an acute care hospital in St. Louis County, offers a full continuum of medical and surgical services, including heart care, cancer, women and infants, breast health, gastrointestinal, orthopedic, stroke, therapy, wound and pain management services. The hospital has a 24-hour adult emergency department and cares for pediatric patients at a separate emergency department in collaboration with St. Louis Children’s Hospital.
Missouri Baptist is the first and only hospital in St. Louis County to be named a Magnet® hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). The prestigious designation is the highest credential a health care organization can receive for nursing excellence and quality patient care. This recognition has been accomplished by less than nine percent of hospitals nationwide. Additionally, U.S. News & World Report ranked the hospital #2 in the St. Louis metro area.
Missouri Baptist Medical Center's Surgical Services department consists of 22 ORs which include three heart team rooms and the da Vinci robotic surgical system.
Preferred Qualifications
Role Purpose
Provides direct patient care activities including assessment, diagnosis, planning implementation, and evaluation within the guidelines of the standards of nursing care.
Responsibilities
- Promotes patient and family centered care in a healing environment. Educates patients and their families on how to manage their illness or injury, including post treatment home care needs and medication administration.
- Participates in activities that promote patient safety, quality and regulatory compliance. Participates in professional development.
- Develops, implements, and documents individual plans of care with defined goals in collaboration with other members of the interprofessional team and patient, family or caregiver in accordance with the established guidelines and standards of nursing care. Proactively plans and ensures communication of the plan of care across the continuum of care.
- Uses critical nursing skills to assess and evaluate physical, psychosocial, and emotional needs according to standards of care. Assess patient preferences and barriers to involvement in care, including their values, emotional, spiritual, cultural, and population-specific needs.
- BJC has determined this is a safety-sensitive position. The ability to work in a constant state of alertness and in a safe manner is an essential function of this job.
Minimum Requirements
Education
• Nursing Diploma/Associate's
- Nursing
Experience
• No Experience
Supervisor Experience
• No Experience
Licenses & Certifications
• RN
Preferred Requirements
Education
• Bachelor's Degree
- Nursing
Experience
•
Job Tags
Shift work, Weekend work,