Registered Nurse - Preop/PACU

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, andtreatment facilitiesin Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

Provides the Mother Standard of care to oncology patients across the adult and geriatric spectrum. An Individualized plan of care is developed and implemented, utilizing the nursing process, including assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation. Responsible for inspiring and guiding other qualified patient care team members to ensure enhanced outcomes through effective delegation in the exercise of his/her independent judgment. Nursing care addresses physical, spiritual, emotional and educational needs of the patient, and coordinates the plan of care with other healthcare professionals, support persons and all members of the healthcare team.

The successful candidate:

• Administers and monitors patients undergoing sedation/analgesia per physician order and hospital protocol.
• Able to provide thorough assessment for pre and postoperative patients for neurological, cardiac and respiratory status.
• Appropriately utilizes ergonomics for patients postoperatively.
• Comprehension of transferring patients from OR to ICU/Med Surg.
• Ability to conduct risk assessment, prevention and treatment of pressure injury
• Ability to assess and treat unplanned hypothermia.
• Assesses, plans, implements, evaluates and documents the care of medical/surgical, ambulatory care and same-day surgery patient’s pre and post procedure from Phase 1 through discharge. Recovers patients from OR/Endo/IR/Rad Onc.
• Ability to interpret and operate cardiac and other invasive and noninvasive monitors, recognize normal/abnormal rhythms/trends, and institute appropriate interventions.
• Attend in house codes and rapid response calls as required.• Care for patients with complex needs including hemodynamically compromised and mechanically ventilated patients.
• Initiate and maintain complex IV therapy, including thrombolytic administration, vasoactive medications, central IV catheters, dialysis catheters & arterial lines.
• Safe use of less invasive, life supporting modalities i.e. BiPAP, ETCO2, arterial pressure based CO/CI & SVO2 monitor, core temperature monitors.
• Ability to collect blood specimens and blood cultures.
• Care for, assess and monitor patients with Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) and epidural catheters.
• Able to provide thorough assessment for pre and postoperative patients for neurological, cardiac and respiratory status.
• Must be able to work 4 10's, 7:30a-6:00p; There is a call requirement that starts at 8:00p daily. It’s required to sign up for 7 of these call shifts in a six-week period, as well as 2 weekend call shifts i.e. Saturday & Sunday, two Saturdays or two Sundays.

QUALIFICATIONS

Your qualifications should include:

1 year experience in Preop/PACU

Associate Degree in Nursing or equivalent

Arizona Registered Nurse License or a Registered Nurse License form a Compact State

Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification- an approved American Heart Association (AHA) training site, American Safety & Health Institute, or Red Cross BLS certification is required upon hire. If their current certification does not meet the guidelines, employees will have (30) days from the date of hire to acquire attend an onsite initial BLS course and will be required to renew every two years.

Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Certification-Employees will have thirty (30) days from the date of hire to acquire American Heart Association (AHA) ACLS certification and will need to be renewed every two years. Employees will not be allowed to provide ACLS for patients independently until AHA ACLS cards are obtained.

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