Registered Nurse - PreOp​/PACU

Salary & Benefits

Pay range: $32.73/hr - $45.56/hr (Hourly, Full‑time)

Banner Surgery Center – Reid Park is managed by Atlas Healthcare Partners. The surgery center offers exceptional care and outstanding customer service to patients and physicians in the Tucson Community. It can accommodate all specialties and offers two operating rooms focused on Pain Management, Ophthalmology, ENT and Orthopedics.

Atlas Healthcare and Banner Health have partnered to manage, operate and grow Banner Surgery Centers throughout the Southwest. As one of the fast‑growing healthcare partnerships, our focus is to provide exceptional care and outstanding customer service to every patient, every physician, every time. All this while focusing daily on our company core values of Integrity, Culture, Teamwork, Respect, and Results. We provide top‑of‑industry health and dental benefits with a matching retirement package.

It’s a special working environment that you will greatly enjoy.

This position assesses, plans, implements, evaluates and documents nursing care of patients in accordance with organizational policies and standards of professional nursing practice. The position is accountable for the quality of nursing services delivered by the employee or others under their direction, utilizing specialized knowledge, judgment and nursing skills necessary to assess data and plan, provide and evaluate care appropriate to the physical and developmental age of assigned patients.

• Assesses patient physical, psychological, social, spiritual, educational, developmental, cultural and post‑operative planning needs; reviews patient history and physical with patient/family and ensures completion within appropriate timeframe; reviews available information obtained by other health care team members; reviews diagnostics and laboratory data and reports abnormal results to the physician(s) and other appropriate caregivers; completes assessment and reassessments according to patient need and as outlined in policy.
• Formulates a plan of care, including the discharge plan, utilizing assessment data and patient, family and health team input; initiates a plan of care based on patient‑specific needs, assessment data and the medical plan of care; sets realistic, measurable goals with the patient/family; considers the physical, cultural, psychosocial, spiritual, age‑specific and educational needs of the patient; plans care in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team;
  
  reviews and revises the plan of care to reflect changing patient needs.
• Implements the plan of care through direct patient care, coordination, delegation and supervision of the health care team; provides care based on physician orders and the nursing plan of care, complying with policies, procedures, standards of care and regulatory requirements; promotes continuity of care by accurately and completely communicating patient status to other caregivers.
• Evaluates the patient’s and family’s response to care and teaching and revises the plan of care as needed; evaluates patient progress toward goals and expected outcomes in collaboration with other health care team members; evaluates the effectiveness of patient teaching.
• Documents assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation in the patient record; documentation is legible, timely and in accordance with policy; records objective/subjective data, nursing interventions and patient’s response to treatment; records physician orders accurately and in a timely manner.
• Provides care based on the best evidence available and may participate in research activities within clinical practice; participates in facility shared leadership; interacts and participates in the education, role development, and orientation of facility personnel, patients, students, families and visitors; promotes/supports growth of others through precepting and mentoring when appropriate.
• Contributes to society through activities that lead to excellent patient outcomes through timely, effective, efficient, equitable and safe care; actively participates in the improvement of national nursing quality indicators and outcomes; may participate…