Travel Nurse RN - PACU/Pre-Post Op in New York City, NY

**Job Title:** Registered Nurse
**Job Specialty:** Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU)
**Job Duration:** 13 Weeks
**Shift:** 9:00 AM - 6:30 PM, Monday-Friday
**Guaranteed Hours:** 37.50 Hours
**Experience:** Minimum 2 years RN experience with 2 years of post-op management/medicated drips experience preferred
**License:** NYS RN License
**Certifications:** Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
**Must-Have:**
- EPIC experience highly preferred
- Ability to perform charge nurse duties as assigned
- Strong communication and critical thinking skills
**Job Description:**
- Deliver patient care incorporating the tenets of Relationship Centered Care.
- Apply the nursing process based on theory, research, and evidence-based practice to provide safe, competent quality care.
- Assess and evaluate patient care needs and integrate relevant assessment and intervention skills in the delivery of nursing care.
- Collaborate with the interdisciplinary healthcare team in the development, implementation, and evaluation of the plan of care.
- Prioritize all aspects of patient care, including teaching, rounding, coaching, planning after hospital care, and delegating to others as appropriate.
- Educate patients and caregivers about their plan of care, transition of care, promotion of health, and prevention of disease.
- Communicate effectively and professionally with patients, family, and all members of the Interdisciplinary Patient Care Team.
- Manage assignments within the Care Delivery Model of Modified Primary Nursing and demonstrate effective allocation of material resources.
- Use evidence-based practices to increase understanding of patients' perceptions of care and establish a therapeutic relationship with the patient and family.
- Implement process improvement strategies and engage in formal and informal peer and institutional review processes to improve patient care quality and safety.
- Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to create and implement quality improvement projects and nursing research studies.
- Participate in shared decision-making through specialty practice councils, nursing department committees, and unit initiatives.
- Encourage and demonstrate a spirit of scholarship, inquiry, lifelong learning, and innovation for self and others.