REGISTERED NURSE: PACU - OR Holding Area

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Short Description
The Registered RN is a professional care-giver who, as a member of a multidisciplinary health care team, assumes responsibility and accountability for a group of patients for a designated time frame and who supervises and provides care to these patients utilizing the nursing process including the therapeutic use of self.
 
Additional Responsibilities:

Follows established policies and procedures.
Communicates openly with internal customers and supervisors.
Provides excellent customer service interfacing well with all levels of staff, management and physicians.
Applies Cooper core values.
Assumes responsibility and accountability for a group of patients for a designated timeframe.
Evaluates patients, implements and documents nursing care.
Assists physicians during examinations and procedures.
Performs various patient tests and administers medications utilizing the nursing process.
Promotes patients' independence by establishing patient care goals and teaching patients and families to understand conditions, medications, and self-care skills.

Special Requirements
Scheduled Days / Hours: Days 8A - 8P with rotation to 9A - 9P, to include weekend rotation.
 
Experience: minimum one year PACU, ICU or ER experience required.
 
Education: Graduate of NLN accredited School of Nursing - Bachelor Degree preferred.
  
License/Certifications/Registration: Current NJ-RN License (Registered Nurse); Current American Heart Association BLS Certification (Basic Life Support for Health Care Providers); certain specialties may require advanced certification (i.e. ACLS, NALS, PALS)
  

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Cooper University Health Care
Website : http://www.cooperhealth.org