Job Description:Job Summary: The Registered Nurse is responsible for rendering professional, technical and age appropriate peri anesthesia nursing care for pre and post surgical and pre and post anesthetic patients. The individual in this position provides direct and indirect patient care using the nursing process and directs or supervises support staff and collaborates with physicians and multi-disciplinary team members.$15,000 SIGN-ON BONUS ELIGIBLE!Full-Time Days, 11:00am-11:30pmHealth/Retirement 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: Graduate from an accredited School of Nursing. Minimum of two-years nursing experience, with at least one year in critical care, Pediatric experience and PACU setting preferred. Pediatric Critical Care experience is preferred for the Pediatric PACU setting. Refresher course required for nurses who have not worked in an acute setting for five years or more.Licensure and Certification:
Registered Nurse in the State of North Carolina
BLS required
ACLS and PALS completed within one year of hire
Essential Functions
Communicates professionally and effectively with the health care team, patients and family /visitors.
Promotes a safe and healthy working environment by utilizing clear communication, collaboration and teamwork.
Utilizes the nursing process and adheres to policies/procedures/guidelines to ensure efficient, appropriate and safe patient care. Documents care accurately in EMR.
Provides appropriate teaching and direction for patients and family through consideration of age, physical, emotional, spiritual, cultural, religious and environmental needs.
Provides age/developmentally appropriate patient care in accordance with Age/Developmental Specific Care Guidelines for the specific age groups served.
Skills and Qualifications:
Good interpersonal, communication and listening skills.
Ability to safely provide direct and indirect patient care.
Knowledge of airway management and management of patients in altered states of consciousness.
Knowledge of hemodynamic monitoring, fluid management, anesthetic agents and dysrhythmia recognition.
Knowledge of Infection Control Practices.
Work Environment:
Work with critical patients and in emergency situations.
Subject to highly stressful situations.
Work in continually changing work environment.
About Us: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.About the Team:Mission, Vision and Culture CommitmentsMissionTo improve health, elevate hope and advance healing - for all.VisionTo be the first and best choice for care.Culture CommitmentsWe create a space where all BelongWe Work as One to make great things happenWe earn Trust in all we doWe Innovate to better the now and create the futureWe drive for Excellence - always
