PACU RN

Overview

Virginia Mason Franciscan Health brings together two award-winning health systems in Washington state  CHI Franciscan and Virginia Mason. As one integrated health system with the most patient access points in western Washington, our team includes 18,000 staff and nearly 5,000 employed physicians and affiliated providers. At Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, you will find the safest and highest quality of care provided by our expert, compassionate medical care team at 11 hospitals and nearly 300 sites throughout the greater Puget Sound region.  While you’re busy impacting the healthcare industry, we’ll take care of you with benefits that include health/dental/vision, FSA, matching retirement plans, paid vacation, adoption assistance, annual bonus eligibility, and more!

Responsibilities

The RN Procedural Periop  is responsible for providing high quality, skilled nursing services to assist patients to achieve optimum health, functional health status and safe passage while receiving an invasive or interventional procedure during an episodic or series of visits. All patients have unique needs and experience these needs across wide ranges or continuums from health to illness. The more compromised patients are, the more severe or complex their needs. The dimensions of a nurse's practice are driven by the needs of a patient and family, which requires nurses to be proficient in multiple dimensions of nursing practice. Nurse competencies stem from patient needs and the characteristics of the nurse and patient synergies are when optimal patient outcomes can result. The  RN Procedural Periop may need to demonstrate technical expertise in the follow areas Periop, PACU, and procedural areas to support patient care during the episodic visit where interventions and procedures occur.

Duties may include:

• Moderate Sedation - including pre-procedure assessment for appropriateness, intra-procedure administration and patient monitoring, ability to intervene appropriately based on patient response, and post-procedure recovery
• May also include cross training in functional areas to support patient care across multiple areas of clinical care within the assigned department, such as admission, discharge process, and IV insertion.
• Responsible for providing patient education, pre and post calls to support patient care in anticipation or in follow up to procedures/discharge.

All clinical duties performed within AORN, ASPAN guidelines.

Qualifications

We require:

• Current WA State RN license is required.
• CPR certification is required every two years or as specified by the work.
• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing approved by the Washington State Board of Nursing.
• Please be advised that this location requires quarterly American Heart Association (AHA) Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI) competency certification post-hire. This ongoing competency is required through resources internal to the facility; outside RQI competency resources are not acceptable for CommonSpirit Health compliance requirements

Preferred: 

• ACLS 

We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.