RN SPA​/PACU

Job Summary

Participates with the Health Care Team in delivering quality health care to patients in a manner that reflects Kaiser Permanente’s mission, vision, and values while supporting the Labor Management Partnership (LMP) principles and practice. Engages in creating a high‑performance culture based on joint decision making. Provides support and assistance to the patient and health care team to promote population‑based care, continuity of care, customer satisfaction, and self‑care.

Demonstrates strong interpersonal and communication skills with a caring, courteous, flexible, supportive, respectful, open‑minded, appreciative attitude committed to a team environment. The RN is responsible for assessing, planning, directing, providing and evaluating nursing care for patients during the inter‑operative phase and coordinating care activities with other ASC professionals.

• Professional Practice Standards of Performance:
  Complies with shift, unit and organizational policies and procedures, including reliability and attendance standards; monitors and takes corrective action to prevent recurring absences; returns promptly from breaks and schedules coverage; restricts personal business to non‑patient care areas during break times; complies with Kaiser’s time‑keeping policy; maintains confidentiality of all patient and organizational records (HIPAA); promotes collaboration and professional interaction with the health care team;
  
  attends and constructively participates in staff meetings; demonstrates awareness of new information posted in the communication notebook.
• Planning Standard of Performance:
  Utilizes assessment data when instituting plan of care; nursing plan of care sensitive to the developmental needs of the patient; utilizes knowledge of type of procedure to plan for appropriate set‑up; obtains and demonstrates the skills and knowledge needed to provide age‑appropriate care to patients and families through education, training, and experience.
• Implementation Standard of Performance:
  Applies principles of correct body alignment in positioning and transferring patient; organizes nursing activities efficiently in both circulating and scrub role; records and documents relevant information according to policy and procedure.
• Evaluation Standard of Performance:
  Demonstrates ability to evaluate and document patient outcomes; participates in unit quality assurance activities on a monthly basis.
• Safety Management Standard of Performance:
  Maintains safety in use of all equipment according to manufacturers’ instructions and policies; complies with all Kaiser and unit‑specific policies and procedures.

• Minimum two (2) years of RN experience in acute care or ambulatory care/clinic setting within the last five (5) years.
• Minimum two (2) years of experience within the last 5 years in critical‑care positions.

• Graduate of accredited school of nursing.

• Registered Nurse License (Oregon)
• Basic Life Support
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support within 6 months of hire
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support

• Procedural Sedation Competency required within six (6) months of hire.

• Specialty experience within the last three (3) years.
• Minimum two (2) years of critical‑care experience with adult patients, preferably in the PACU environment.
• Minimum two (2) years of clinical care experience with pediatrics, preferably in ER, ICU or PACU environment.
• Minimum two (2) years of experience providing procedural sedation in outpatient setting.
• Minimum two (2) years of experience in pain management injection procedures.
• Minimum two (2) years of experience within the last 3 years in critical‑care positions.

• Monday‑Friday, variable day off.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Health Care Provider, Hospitals and Health Care