PACU Registered Nurse

Sign-on Bonus: Up to $20,000

Shifts Available: Days

Employment Type: Full-Time

Hours: Four 9-hour shifts per week (Hours vary: 6:00am-3:00pm or 8:00am-6:00pm)

Call and Holidays: Required on a Rotating Basis

Location: St. Joseph Medical Center in Kansas City, MO

We are seeking a PACU Registered Nurse (Post-Anesthesia Care Unit RN) to join our surgical services team. In this role, you will provide post-operative care, monitor patients recovering from anesthesia, manage pain control, and ensure safe recovery following surgical procedures. The PACU RN will perform vital signs monitoring, airway management, and respond to emergencies as needed. Ideal candidates have experience in critical care, perioperative nursing, or ambulatory surgery, and hold current BLS, ACLS, and PALS certifications.

Here are some of the benefits of working at Prime Healthcare:

Health, dental, and vision insurance options
• Paid vacation, sick time and holidays
• Bereavement leave, FMLA, and other leave options
• Employer 401(k) options
• Tuition reimbursement options
• Life, disability, and other insurance options
• Many other amazing benefits

Full benefits at Prime Healthcare: https://www.primehealthcare.com/careers/benefits/

**If you have at least one year of experience in the perioperative area of the operating room as a circulator, OR nurse, PACU Nurse or Surgical Nurse you are encouraged to apply!

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (includes, but are not limited to):

• Monitor recovery from anesthesia: vitals, airway, pain, consciousness
• Administer post-op meds, fluids, dressings
• Recognize/respond to complications (bleeding, respiratory distress)
• Provide emotional support, patient/family education, discharge assessment
• Hand off to interdisciplinary team; accurate documentation; infection control

Before we go any further, we do have some deal-breakers. You must have:

• Current and valid state RN license.
• Current BLS (AHA) certificate upon hire and maintain current.
• ACLS (AHA) certificate 30 days upon hire and maintained current.
• PALS (AHA) certificate preferred.
• Previous critical care or PACU experience or a minimum of one year of on-the-job training.
• Critical Care RN (CCRN) preferred.
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) preferred.

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