REGISTERED NURSE MANAGER POST-ANESTHESIA CARE UNIT
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Job Location:
Fort Walton Beach, FL - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES-
Registered Nurse Manager - Post-Anesthesia Care Unit
RN MGR - PACU
Full-Time
Registered Nurse Manager candidates for the PACU will have the following job responsibilities:
- Maintains current knowledge of health care trends as well as nursing and surgical practice
- Manages and supports supervisors and charge RNs to ensure quality of work.
- Keeps the Administrative Director informed of any unusual concerns situations or conditions relative to patients and medical staff.
- Keeps and maintains all records of safety surveys within the department.
- Evaluates and recommends purchase of capital equipment.
- Recognizes/develops new services/processes to present to Division Director as appropriate.
- Collaborates with others in planning patient care.
- Responds promptly and accurately to meet patients needs.
- In conjunction with other members of the health care team plans for discharge.
- Recognizes patients needs to assert independence and reluctance to express dependency needs and anxiety about hospitalization.
- Adheres to aseptic technique.
- Administers medication safely and accurately utilizing the 5 rights.
- Provides patient/family education as per department and hospital policy and procedure.
- Assists with patient/family/significant others learning needs abilities and readiness to learn. Identifies barriers to learning such as language or culture. Integrates this information into the patients plan of care.
- Identifies and documents patient/family/SOs education needs in collaboration with other disciplines and implements an on-going education relevant to these needs.
- Explains tests procedures disease processes medications and equipment to patient and family throughout the course of treatment.
- Documents patient teaching on appropriate teaching tool for each teaching episode.
- Provides teaching material as needed (pamphlets video tapes etc.) to enhance patient teaching.
- Collaborates with other health care providers in developing a teaching plan for patient.
- Ensures patient/family/SO understand discharge instructions.
- Ensure the application of Customer Service principles in meeting and exceeding the expectations of internal and external customers to provide satisfaction.
JOB QUALIFICATIONS-
Registered Nurse Manager - Post-Anesthesia Care Unit
RN MGR - PACU
Full-Time
Registered Nurse Manager candidates for the PACU must meet the following minimum job qualifications:
3 years of Recent (within the last year) Acute Care PACU Leadership experience required.
- Advanced Cardiac Life Spt must be obtained within 90 days of employment start date
- Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
- Registered Nurse
- Associate Degree
Key Skills
- EMR Systems
- Hospital Experience
- Acute Care
- ICU Experience
- Hospice Care
- Workers' Compensation Law
- Home Care
- Nursing
- Catheterization
- Critical Care Experience
- Medication Administration
- Tube Feeding
