Registered Nurse (RN) PreOp PACU

Job Description

About Company

SCA Health, part of Optum, is an organization that believes healthcare is fundamentally about people – the patients they serve, the physicians they support, and the teammates who drive them forward. With a team of over 15,000 professionals, SCA Health aims to redefine specialty care by developing more accessible, patient-centered practice solutions.

Their network encompasses more than 370 ambulatory surgical centers, over 400 specialty physician practice clinics, and numerous labs and surgical hospitals. Their work covers a broad spectrum of services designed to support physicians, health systems, and employers in delivering efficient, value-based care to patients, all while maintaining quality and autonomy.

What truly distinguishes SCA Health is their approach, deeply rooted in seven core values:
• Clinical quality
• Integrity
• Service excellence
• Teamwork
• Accountability
• Continuous improvement
• Inclusion

These values are not merely abstract concepts but actively inform their attitudes, actions, and culture, ensuring that employees’ work directly impacts patients, physicians, and communities. SCA Health offers opportunities for career development within a team that values expertise, invests in success, and shares a common mission to care for patients, serve physicians, and improve healthcare in America.

SCA Health provides a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401k plan with company match, paid time off, life and disability insurance, and more, to support their employees’ health, well-being, and financial future. The company encourages innovation, stating, “Your ideas should inspire change. If you join our team, they will.”

Job Description: Registered Nurse (RN) PreOp PACU

SCA Health is actively hiring for a Registered Nurse (RN) PreOp PACU. This role is crucial in promoting the mission, vision, and values of SCA Health through direct patient care and collaboration.

Responsibilities include:

• Patient Assessment:
• Assessing patients’ preoperative and postoperative status at defined intervals.
• Evaluating cardiovascular, respiratory, airway management needs, neurological, hemodynamic stability, pain and comfort needs, and mental status.
• Interpreting information accurately from various noninvasive and invasive monitors.
• Describing underlying pathophysiology of common disease processes and physiology associated with various anesthesia and surgical techniques.
• Accurately applying relevant scoring systems/discharge criteria for patient transfer (e.g., Aldrete Score, Modified Aldrete Score, PADSS, White score).
• Care Planning & Implementation:
• Developing an individualized perianesthesia plan of care.
• Implementing the plan of care, including:
• Preparing for and managing patient recovery from various anesthesia types (general, monitored anesthesia care, regional, local).
• Protecting patients from injury caused by positioning, thermal sources, and extraneous objects.
• Communicating the patient’s current status throughout the perianesthesia continuum of care.
• Providing acute pain and comfort management.
• Administering medications safely and correctly using the 8-rights of safe medication administration.
• Performing interventions to maintain the integrity of the patient’s wound and tissue perfusion.
• Performing interventions to maintain the status of multiple body systems (genitourinary, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, endocrine, respiratory, cardiovascular, neurological), and fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balances.
• Ensuring the patient returns to normothermia at the conclusion of the immediate postoperative period.
• Protecting patients from infection.
• Managing patient’s co-morbid conditions and fluid as prescribed.
• Patient Education & Advocacy:
• Assessing knowledge level of patient or designated support person and providing education on psychosocial response, nutritional management, medication management, pain and comfort management, wound management, and expected responses to the operative or invasive procedure.
• Actively involving the patient or designated support person in decisions affecting their perioperative plan of care and rehabilitation process.
• Protecting patient’s rights, dignity, and privacy.
• Providing age-specific, culturally competent, ethical care within legal standards of practice, ensuring consistent and comparable care regardless of the setting.
• Professional Conduct & Collaboration:
• Evaluating the patient’s progress toward attaining outcomes and transferring care as needed.
• Providing accurate, concise, and pertinent hand-off reports to other teammates.
• Delegating tasks according to state Nurse Practice Act, state board of nursing, state laws, and job descriptions.
• Documenting nursing care completely, accurately, and legibly.
• Collaborating effectively with other disciplines.
• Participating in quality review and performance improvement projects.
• Participating in the performance appraisal process.
• Using problem-solving and conflict resolution skills to foster effective work relationships.
• Maintaining required competencies and pursuing professional growth.
• Acting as a patient advocate and maintaining privacy and confidentiality.
• Complying with all facility policies and procedures when providing patient care.
• Actively participating in team meetings, trainings, and daily safety huddles.
• Demonstrating fiscal responsibility.
• Performing all other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Education: Graduate of an Accredited School of Nursing.
• Experience:
• One year of Pre Operative or PACU experience required.
• Medical / surgical nursing experience.
• Licensure: Current state licensure to practice within good standings.
• Certifications (within 90 days of employment or documentation of current certification):
• Successful completion of Basic Life Support (BLS) or Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS).
• Successful completion of Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Course.
• Successful completion of Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) course is required when pediatric care is included in the facility scope of services.

Salary Range: USD $30.00/Hr. – USD $49.86/Hr.