Pacu Jobs in Denver, CO

Job Summary and Responsibilities

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Nurses are at the heartbeat of our organization and your time will be spent in a supportive, team environment with resources to help you flourish and leaders who care about your success. We offer Certification pay and a Clinical Career Ladder to help you grow and recognize your contributions to clinical excellence!

Here, you will help advance modern nursing by providing your skills, experience, and commitment to compassionate care. The impact you will make in our faith-based, mission-driven culture will cultivate excellence and achieve professional fulfillment united in humankindness.

As a Registered Nurse (RN) you will assume responsibility and accountability for:

• Facilitating, communicating, and collaborating with both the healthcare team, and the patient/family to identify and meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the patient.
• Promote the optimal health, well-being and safety of the patient through use of the nursing process and in accordance with patient care standards, guidelines and the State Nurse Practice Act.
• Demonstrate personal accountability for relationship-based care, organizational mission, and core values.

**Previous Pre Op PACU, GI, ICU, exp Required**

Schedule: 36hrs/ week-variable Shift starts and Day of week per volume and unit needs. TBD During interviews with Unit manager.

Call Required.

Preop and PACU staff are cross trained to work both areas, and do Preop and PACU for both Surgery and GI Lab.

Preop # beds: 13 rooms

PACU # beds: 19 bays (split, 10 North PACU, 9 South PACU)

Cases/day (average): about 40 surgeries, 15 GI, and 30 Pain Clinic / Day

Scheduling details:

Variable schedule (no self-scheduling). Call is in addition to regularly scheduled hours. We schedule cases Monday-Friday 0730-1930.

Nights, weekends, and holidays are call shifts for urgent/emergent cases. We try to work with staff but will meet the needs of the department to cover ALL shifts and subject to change depending on department volume. The 0600 shifts float the most. Our staff will do either PACU or GI call depending on skill set.

We offer 8-, 10-, and 12-hour shifts Monday – Friday depending on FTE: Shifts are…

0500-1530 (10hr) 0700-1730 (10hr)

0530-1600 (10hr) 0800-1830 (10hr)

0600-1430 (8hr) 0800-2030 (12hr)

0600-1630 (10hr) 0900-2130 (12hr)

0600-1830 (12hr) 1000-2030 (10hr)

Call requirements: 2 RNs On-Call and call will change based on volume and staff.

1 weeknight (Sunday- Thursday)) from 1930-0730 (12Hrs)

2 holidays a year from 0700-0700 (24hrs)

Currently every 6th Weekend: Saturday and Sunday 0700-1930 or Friday and Saturday 1900-0730 (12.5 hrs)

We average about 6 call shifts on a 6-week schedule and try to schedule staff off the next day.

Job Requirements

In addition to bringing humankindness to the workplace each day, qualified nursing candidates will need the following:

Education Requirements

• Associates Degree in Nursing required; Nursing Diploma or by endorsement
• Bachelors Degree in Nursing preferred
• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing required for new graduates, preferred for experienced RNs

Experience Requirements

• One year experience preferred
• Nursing skills and knowledge base specific to specialty

Licenses/Certification Requirements

• RN License required; Current state nursing licenses or valid RN license from a participating state in the National Licensure Compact

Physical Requirements

• Medium Work - (Exert up to 50lbs force occasionally, and/or up to 20lbs frequently, and/or up to 10lbs constantly)

Where You'll Work

For more than 50 years, St. Anthony North Hospital has delivered optimal health care to the communities of Westminster, Erie, Brighton, Broomfield, Northglenn and Thornton. Highlights of our campus include 60,000 square feet of integrated primary and specialty care physician clinics, ambulatory surgery center, birthing center with private birthing suites, Level III Trauma Center with 24/7 emergency services, over 150 inpatient beds and an outpatient diagnostics center with lab and imaging services. In 2023, we received our prestigious Magnet designation! We are so proud of our nursing staff for this achievement, which is awarded to less than 6 percent of hospitals in the United States. Built on the pillars of convenience, wellness and person-centered care, we offer inpatient and outpatient care at one site, with an emphasis on preventive health, wellness and health education.

Unless directed by a Collective Bargaining Agreement, applications for this position will be considered on a rolling basis. CommonSpirit Health cannot anticipate the date by which a successful candidate may be identified.