Registered Nurse / RN PACU

Overview Join our team as a day shift, full-time, Recovery Room (PACU) Registered Nurse in Westwood, NJ. Why Join Us? Thrive in a People-First Environment and Make Healthcare Better • Thrive: We empower our team with career growth opportunities, tuition assistance, and resources that support your wellness, education, and financial well-being. • People-First: We prioritize your well-being with paid time off, comprehensive health benefits, and a supportive, inclusive culture where you are valued and cared for. • Make Healthcare Better: We use advanced technology to support our team and enhance patient care. • Learn more about the benefits offered for this job. Get to Know Your Team: • Hackensack Meridian Pascack Valley Medical Center is a 128-bed, full-service, acute-care community hospital with a new emergency department, a state-of-the-art maternity center, a women's imaging center, and an ICU. Responsibilities • PACU staff provides care for patients recovering from general, regional, or local anesthesia. Unless complicationsoccur, most patients only stay in the PACU for a few hours before returning home or to another department of the hospital. • The PACU staff, generally composed of highly trained nurses, performs many tasks vital to the care of post-anesthesia and post- operative patients. These essential activities include: • Monitoring vital signs (heart rate, blood pressure, temperature and respiratory rate) • Treating symptoms of postoperative nausea and vomiting (or PONV) • Managing post-operative pain • Treating post-anesthetic shivering • Monitoring surgical site(s) for excessive bleeding, discharge, swelling, hematoma, redness, etc. • Additionally, PACU RNs often coordinate the delivery of care for post-anesthesia patients immediately following surgical procedures, so that the physical, psychological, safety, rehabilitative and education needs of patients and their family members are met. Qualifications Job Requirements: • Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing • Current valid NJ State Professional Registered Nurse license or a valid multistate Registered Nurse License from the NCL • Evidence of continuing education in the field of OR nursing. • Telemetry Course • 2 years minimum as OR, PACU, critical care or Same Day surgery experience • BLS certification must be obtained within 14 days of hire or transfer into the role and prior to providing direct patient care. • Advance Cardiac Life Support certification (ACLS) by the American Heart Association (AHA) or the American Red Cross (ARC) • Pediatric Advance Life Support (PALS) by the American Heart Association (AHA) or the American Red Cross (ARC) Preferred Job Requirements: • Bachelor of Science in Nursing • CPAN or CPAN • Certification in specalty • PACU staff provides care for patients recovering from general, regional, or local anesthesia. Unless complicationsoccur, most patients only stay in the PACU for a few hours before returning home or to another department of the hospital. • The PACU staff, generally composed of highly trained nurses, performs many tasks vital to the care of post-anesthesia and post- operative patients. These essential activities include: • Monitoring vital signs (heart rate, blood pressure, temperature and respiratory rate) • Treating symptoms of postoperative nausea and vomiting (or PONV) • Managing post-operative pain • Treating post-anesthetic shivering • Monitoring surgical site(s) for excessive bleeding, discharge, swelling, hematoma, redness, etc. • Additionally, PACU RNs often coordinate the delivery of care for post-anesthesia patients immediately following surgical procedures, so that the physical, psychological, safety, rehabilitative and education needs of patients and their family members are met. Job Requirements: • Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing • Current valid NJ State Professional Registered Nurse license or a valid multistate Registered Nurse License from the NCL • Evidence of continuing education in the field of OR nursing. • Telemetry Course • 2 years minimum as OR, PACU, critical care or Same Day surgery experience • BLS certification must be obtained within 14 days of hire or transfer into the role and prior to providing direct patient care. • Advance Cardiac Life Support certification (ACLS) by the American Heart Association (AHA) or the American Red Cross (ARC) • Pediatric Advance Life Support (PALS) by the American Heart Association (AHA) or the American Red Cross (ARC) Preferred Job Requirements: • Bachelor of Science in Nursing • CPAN or CPAN • Certification in specalty