Rn - Operating Room Recovery

$20,000 Sign on Bonus Eligible

Job Summary

Registered Nurse - Operating Room Recovery

The post anesthesia care nurse is responsible for assessing and maintaining adequate ventilation, homeostasis and circulation; assessing level of consciousness, providing pain management, and ensuring the safety of the patient until transfer to another unit.

Company Description

Duke LifePoint Healthcare is a joint venture of Duke University Health System, one of the country’s leading academic health systems, and LifePoint Health, a leading healthcare company dedicated to Making Communities Healthier. These two forces joined because of the shared interest in collaborating with hospitals, healthcare providers and patients to bring high quality, innovative healthcare services to communities. Duke LifePoint combines Duke’s unparalleled expertise in clinical excellence and quality care with LifePoint's extensive resources and knowledge and experience operating community hospitals and healthcare organizations.

Essential Functions

• Documents patient care given.
• Works as an advocate for the physical and emotional well-being of the patient.
• Assists patients with performing activities of daily living, including personal hygiene, elimination, nutrition, and ambulation.
• Performs plan of care intervention, including medication administration, specimen collection, clinical treatments, as well as other medical care treatment.
• Collaborates as needed across disciplines to coordinate patient care, including patient transfer, discharge, referral and spiritual/psychosocial support needs.
• Evaluates learning needs of patient and/or family and provides patient/family education appropriate to age, culture, condition, and circumstances.
• Monitors, records, and communicates patient condition as appropriate to care team, physician, patient, and family.

Benefits - Wide range of benefits options!

• Prescription Assistance with OptumRx
• Employee Assistance program at no cost to you to provide emotional, legal, financial, and daily life support for your entire household. Services are available 24 hrs. a day, 7 days a week.
• Generous Paid Time Off
• 401(K) retirement plan contributions
• Here at Frye, you choose your own Medical, Dental, and Vision plans from a variety of competitive options that give you the coverage that best fits your needs.
• Accident & Critical Illness Insurance
• Vitality Employee Wellness Plan allows you to take up to 30% off of your bi-weekly health insurance premiums. You also accrue points which allows you to buy merchandise or gift cards at no cost to you. 
• HSA
• Free travel and entertainment discount program to ensure you enjoy your time away from work.
• Income protection programs for the entire family such as life insurance, Short/Long-term Disability, and Identity Theft.

Why join our team?

Frye Regional Medical Center employs more than 1500 professional and clinical staff. Our medical center is a 355-bed acute care facility which offers a broad array of inpatient and outpatient care. Frye Regional Medical Center is dedicated to providing patients with a full range of services to meet the healthcare needs of our community. We believe our employees are our most valuable assets in accomplishing this goal and we have made great strides to ensure employee satisfaction. If you are passionate about changing lives, we are looking for you!

Minimum Education

• Associate's degree required
• Bachelor's degree preferred

Licenses/Certifications

• Basic Life Support (BLS) required
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) required
• Current RN license to practice in NC
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) required

Equal opportunity and affirmative action employers and are looking for diversity in candidates for employment: Minority/Female/Disabled/Protected Veteran