RN PACU

As a PACU Registered Nurse (RN) at CHI St. Joseph's Health, you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery. Working at the intersection of surgical precision and post-operative stabilization, you will serve as a vital link in the patient’s journey through the perioperative process.

Every day, you will leverage your specialized expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team of surgeons, anesthesiologists, and support staff, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes during their most vulnerable moments.

To thrive in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to clinical excellence in a high-acuity, fast-paced environment will not only support rapid patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement within the CHI St. Joseph’s network.

Key Responsibilities:

• Clinical Assessment: Provide a comprehensive assessment of the surgical patient through the collection, analysis, and synthesis of data used to establish a baseline health status and plan of care, effectively addressing rapid changes in the patient’s post-operative condition.
• Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Collaborate closely with the perioperative surgical team and health care providers to develop, coordinate, and communicate a seamless plan of care.
• Care Planning: Develop and refine nursing interventions specifically tailored to the unique physiological and psychological needs of patients in the OR and PACU settings.
• Independent Intervention: Implement high-level nursing care through the execution of independent interventions, including airway management, hemodynamic monitoring, and pain management.
• Provider-Led Execution: Implement specialized interventions that are delegated, ordered, or prescribed by surgeons and anesthesiologists to ensure safe and effective patient transitions.
• Team Leadership: Delegate appropriate nursing tasks and coordinate care activities with surgical techs and support staff to ensure the efficiency of the patient’s plan of care and maintain a safe surgical environment.

• Current RN license that allows you to practice in Minnesota.
• Graduate of an accredited nursing program.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) issued by the American Heart Association.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS).
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) within one year of hire.  
• Surgery experience preferred.

CHI St. Joseph’s Health of Park Rapids, part of CommonSpirit Health, is an award-winning, 25-bed critical access hospital located in the heart of lake country. Fully accredited by The Joint Commission, we offer a full range of services including 24/7/365 Emergency Department and Level IV Trauma Center, hospitalist program, testing, surgery, orthopedics, rehabilitation, and more so that you can experience better health.

Depending on the position offered, CommonSpirit Health offers a generous benefit package, including but not limited to medical, prescription drug, dental, vision plans, life insurance, paid time off (full-time benefit eligible team members may receive a minimum of 14 paid time off days, including holidays annually), tuition reimbursement, retirement plan benefit(s) including, but not limited to, 401(k), 403(b), and other defined benefits offerings, as may be amended from time to time. For more information, please visit our Total Rewards.

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.