RN, Outpatient PACU

JOB SUMMARY: 

Renders highly professional and technical nursing care to assigned patient. Provides direct patient care using the nursing process (assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation). Directs and supervises other assigned team members and collaborates with multidisciplinary team members to provide age/developmentally appropriate care in accordance with unit standards of care. 

$15,000 SIGN-ON BONUS ELIGIBLE! 

SCHEDULE:

9:00am-7:30pm, 40 hours per week

BENEFITS:

• Day 1 Health Coverage: Choose from either copay or HSA-eligible health insurance options with coverage starting on your first day of work.
• Generous PTO: Accrue up to 25 days/year, to be used for vacations, sickness, holidays, and personal matters.
• Wellness Incentives: Up to $1,350/year in wellness incentives through our LiveWELL program
• Parental Benefits: Six weeks paid birthing-mother maternity leave & four weeks paid parental leave for non-birthing parents.
• Retirement: Up to 7% employer-paid retirement contributions

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE: 

Graduation from an accredited school of nursing. Minimum of one year Operating Room experience or participation in a post-graduate program required. Refresher course required for nurses who have not worked in an Operating Room for five years or more. REPORTS TO: Clinical Coordinator 

LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION, and/or REGISTRATION: 

Current licensures to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of North Carolina and BCLS required. CNOR preferred. 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 

• Utilizes the nursing process to ensure quality patient care is provided throughout the episode of care. 
• Ensures complete, accurate and timely computerized communication of patient information. 
• Demonstrates cost containment activities. 
• Communicates to the team, co-workers, patients and family members in an effective, positive, and professional manner. 
• Takes personal responsibility and initiative for performance and for professional growth and development. 

SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Strong written and oral communication skills 
• Functions effectively under stressful and difficult situations 
• Performs effectively with frequent workload changes and competing demands 
• Follows standards of clinical nursing practice 
• Follows systems for patient safety Basic computer skills 

WORK ENVIRONMENT: 

• Contact with patients, family members, visitors, co-workers, and medical staff under wide variety of circumstances 
• Regular exposure to blood-borne diseases, infectious and contagious diseases 
• Subject to multiple interruptions 
• Occasionally exposed to radiation hazards 
• Possible exposure to cleaning agents/chemicals 
• Occasionally subject to irregular hours Use of personal protective equipment 

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s two main components are an integrated clinical system – anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Brenner Children’s Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.

Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.

This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.