RN PACU

Job Title

RN PACU Full Time Days –
CHI

As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will deliver compassionate, high-quality care that positively impacts patients' recovery. You will assess patients, perform skilled procedures, implement individualized care plans, collaborate with an interdisciplinary team, and support optimal patient outcomes.

• Assumes responsibility for acquiring knowledge and skills necessary for patient care in the identified practice setting.
• Performs assessment and analyzes patient problems and conditions using critical decisioning to determine need for standard, urgent or emergent interventions.
• Implements and/or modifies plan of care using assessment data, standards of care and evidence-based practice inclusive of nursing care coordination, appropriate patient and family education, and discharge planning. Facilitates interdisciplinary partnership in patient care.
• Integrates ethical provisions in nursing practice and delivers care in a manner that preserves and protects patient autonomy, dignity and rights.
• Administers medications, IV therapy, and treatments in compliance with policies and procedures.
• Evaluates progress toward attainment of desired patient outcomes.

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing, upon hire.
• Registered Nurse: KY, upon hire.
• Basic Life Support – CPR, upon hire.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support, within 90 days.
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support, within 6 months.

Saint Joseph East – a 217‑bed full‑service community hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. Includes the Women’s Hospital with a 16‑bed Level III NICU.

$30.00 – $43.50 per hour.

• Seniority level:
  Entry level
• Employment type:
  
  Full‑time
• Job function:
  Health Care Provider
• Industry: Hospitals and Health Care