Registered Nurse PACU PRN

CommonSpirit Health Mountain Region is committed to building healthier communities, advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable, and innovating how and where healing can happen—both inside our hospitals and out in the community. With locations throughout Colorado, Utah, and Kansas, we deliver the same high standard of care to our employees as we do to our patients. Our 20 hospitals, emergency and urgent care centers, home care and hospice, Flight for Life Colorado ^TM , telehealth and over 240 physician practices and clinics offer endless opportunities! Here, you can grow your career and impact the people in the communities you serve.

CommonSpirit Health is one of the nation’s largest nonprofit, faith-based health systems, with a team of over 150,000 employees and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians. CommonSpirit operates more than 2,200 care sites and 140 hospitals, serving some of the most diverse communities across the nation, letting humankindness lead the way.

Depending on your location, you may be eligible for up to $8,000 in relocation assistance!

Nurses are at the heartbeat of our organization and your time will be spent in a supportive, team environment with resources to help you flourish and leaders who care about your success. We offer Certification pay and a Clinical Career Ladder to help you grow and recognize your contributions to clinical excellence! 

Here, you will help advance modern nursing by providing your skills, experience, and commitment to compassionate care. The impact you will make in our faith-based, mission-driven culture will cultivate excellence and achieve professional fulfillment united in humankindness.

As a Registered Nurse (RN) you will assume responsibility and accountability for:

• Facilitating, communicating, and collaborating with both the healthcare team, and the patient/family to identify and meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the patient.
• Promote the optimal health, well-being and safety of the patient through use of the nursing process and in accordance with patient care standards, guidelines and the State Nurse Practice Act.
• Demonstrate personal accountability for relationship-based care, organizational mission, and core values.

Day to Day duties:

• Recover all cases both Phase I & II.
• Phase I monitor airway, stabilize vitals, ensure pain is decreasing

• Preop and PACU for both Surgery and GI Lab.

• Preop and PACU staff are cross trained to work both areas.
• Recovery of both Phase I & II in same area.
• Staff is expected to float between Pre Op/ PACU 

• PACU nurses can take 1-2 patients

• RNs in pre-op/ PACU are responsible for pre op calls, PATs, transports in addition to the clinical aspects of pre-op and PACU care.   
• Unit does see a few recoveries form other departments but is rare

Preop # beds: 12 rooms

PACU # beds: 19 bays (split, 10 North PACU, 9 South PACU)

Cases/day (average): about 20 surgeries, 10 GI, and 20 Pain Clinic / Day

Schedule: PRN- Variable shifts per surgical Volume adn current unit needs. 

PRN Policy requires candidates be available for a min of 5 shifts in a six week schedule block 

Call Required: average 6 shifts in 6 week schedule- based on volume and Staff

1 weeknight (Monday- Friday) from 1930-0730 (12Hrs)

2 holidays a year from 0700-0700 (24hrs)

We offer 8-, 10-, and 12-hour shifts Monday – Friday depending on FTE: Shifts are…

                0500-1530 (10hr)                                             0700-1730 (10hr)            

                0600-1430 (8hr)                                               0800-1830 (10hr)

                0600-1630 (10hr)                                             0800-2030 (12hr)

                0600-1830 (12hr)                                             1000-2030 (10hr)

In addition to bringing humankindness to the workplace each day, qualified nursing candidates will need the following:

Education Requirements

• Associates Degree in Nursing required; Nursing Diploma or by endorsement
• Bachelors Degree in Nursing preferred
• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing required for new graduates, preferred for experienced RNs

Experience Requirements

• One year experience preferred
• Nursing skills and knowledge base specific to specialty

Licenses/Certification Requirements

• RN License required; Current state nursing licenses or valid RN license from a participating state in the National Licensure Compact

Physical Requirements 

• Medium Work - (Exert up to 50lbs force occasionally, and/or up to 20lbs frequently, and/or up to 10lbs constantly)

At CommonSpirit Mountain Region, we believe in the healing power of humanity and serving the common good through our dedicated work and shared mission to celebrate humankindness. 

At St. Anthony North Hospital, one of our proud Magnet® designated hospitals, the surgery department consists of 8 ORs and a Cysto room. Our surgical team services our community by providing excellent patient care in General, ENT, GYN, Urology, Ortho and Spine surgeries.  The patient mix is comprised mainly of adult surgical patients. We occasionally receive pediatric patients if they are expected to go home after surgery. This is a desirable department because we have an amazing culture of caring individuals who are fun to work with and will treat you like family. Our mission is to provide safe and compassionate care to the surgical patient. As an orthopedic heavy department, we hope to find an individual who is willing to learn and who takes our mission and values seriously.

Be sure to consider our generous benefits as part of your overall compensation!  Designed with your well-being in mind, our benefits include:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401K with generous match
• Daycare FSA that can include a company contribution
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Student Loan Forgiveness and more! 

View more on our benefits HERE.