RN - Recovery
Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Eligibility
- PACU
Posted Jul 13
What the listing says
Role
- Term
- PRN
- Accepts
- RN
Ratio not posted. Ask in the interview.
Pay
- Against the board
- Below most NM PRN postings
NM PRN postings that state pay run $43/hr to $60/hr, the middle half $47/hr to $54/hr, across 35 postings.
About this role
Join our team as a Recovery Room RN and bring your critical thinking, compassion, and expertise to a fast-paced, rewarding environment. Responsible for utilizing the nursing process to provide direct patient care to an assigned group of patients during a shift, prioritizing the delivery of direct nursing care using time and resources efficiently integrating a standards based framework model. Provides direct patient care by assessing, planning, implementing, evaluating, and documenting individual patient needs. Coordinates patient care through collaboration with the patient/family and healthcare team.
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Requirements
- Associate Degree in Nursing
- RN License
- State of New Mexico or Compact State Nursing License
- BLS Certification
- ACLS Certification
- PALS Certification
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- PACU experience
- Critical & Intensive Care experience
Benefits
- Educational and career development options
- Tuition and certification reimbursement
- Scholarship opportunities
- Staff Safety wearable badge
- Shift differentials for night/weekend shifts, higher education, certifications and lead roles
- Malpractice liability insurance
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- Loan forgiveness through New Mexico Higher Education Department
- EPIC electronic charting system
Place
- City
- Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Median rent
- $1,145/mo
- Local household income
- $68,317/yr
- Metro price level
- 4% below the national average
rent and tenant-paid utilities · Census ACS 2024
all local households, not nurse pay · Census ACS 2024
Albuquerque area index 95.5, where 100 is the national average.
Clock out, hike the Sandia Crest trails, grab green-chile stew in Nob Hill. Albuquerque's cost of living runs about 4.5% below the national average—your RN salary stretches further across adobe neighborhoods that Route 66 still threads through, where dawn skies fill with balloons over the high desert.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 metro Regional Price Parities · Census ACS 2024.
How this role fits you
About the employer
On your path
Operating Room is a specialty you move into. Periop programs often train from the ground up.
Worth asking
We can’t answer these from the listing we have. Good ones to ask a recruiter or in the interview.
- Can you walk me through base pay range and differentials?
- What should I expect for shifts, weekly hours, weekend, holiday, call, and rotation?
- What orientation, preceptor time, and ongoing unit support are included?
- How are patient load, floating, and staffing support handled day to day?