Registered Nurse (RN) - Post Anesthesia Care Unit
Torrington, Connecticut
Registered Nurses utilize the nursing process (assessment, planning, intervention, documentation, and evaluation) to provide direct and indirect patient care based on area(s) assigned, addressing the age appropriate needs of all patients.
Posted Sep 10 · 1 year of experience
- Shift and hours
- Three 10-hour shifts This position is three 10-hour shifts with one 7p-7a scheduled on-call obligation per week and a 7-week 24-hour weekend call rotation obligation.3 shifts · 30 hours a week
- Unit and setting
- Post Anesthesia Care Unit · Hospital Registered Nurse (RN) - Post Anesthesia Care Unit
- License
- RN license Maintains current license as a Registered Nurse in the State of Connecticutcurrent license as a Registered Nurse in the State of Connecticut
- Term
- Permanent
Do you qualify?
- License
- current license as a Registered Nurse in the State of Connecticut Maintains current license as a Registered Nurse in the State of Connecticut Check your license
- Experience
- minimum of one year PACU or Critical Care nursing experience Minimum of one year PACU or Critical Care nursing experience required.
- Experience
- PACU or Critical Care nursing experience
Preferred
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in field of Nursing Bachelor’s degree in field of Nursing preferred.
What it pays
Benefits
- Benefitscompetitive benefits program designed to ensure work/life balanceWe know that a thriving organization starts with thriving employees- we provide a competitive benefits program designed to ensure work/life balance.
- competitive benefits program
The role and schedule
- Day to day
- provide direct and indirect patient care using the nursing process
- Day to day
- develop unique education and care plans and provide education and support for family members
- Day to day
- direct ancillary staff Utilizes judgment, knowledge and understanding of patient and family needs when directing ancillary staff.
- Day to day
- maintain patient confidentiality and address age-specific needs for comfort and privacy
- Day to day
- annually complete competency requirements specific to area of responsibility Incumbents of this position will annually complete the attached competency requirements specific to their area(s) of responsibility.
- Weekends
- Weekends required
- On call
- one 7p-7a scheduled on-call obligation per week This position is three 10-hour shifts with one 7p-7a scheduled on-call obligation per week and a 7-week 24-hour weekend call rotation obligation.
- On call
- 7-week 24-hour weekend call rotation obligation
- On call
- maximum 40 minute response time for on-call Max 40 minute response time required for on-call
- Details
- 122-bed, general acute care community hospital
The workplaceFrom Medicare Care Compare, Sep 2026.
- Hospital
- Charlotte Hungerford Hospital
- Address
- 540 LITCHFIELD ST, TORRINGTON, CT, 06790
- CMS rating
- 3 of 5 stars
- Beds
- 108
About CHARLOTTE HUNGERFORD HOSPITAL
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Location Detail: Charlotte Hungerford Hospital (10115)
Shift Detail: This position is three 10-hour shifts with one 7p-7a scheduled on-call obligation per week and a 7-week 24-hour weekend call rotation obligation. Max 40 minute response time required for on-call
Work where every moment matters.
Every day, over 40,000 Hartford HealthCare colleagues come to work with one thing in common: Pride in what we do, knowing every moment matters here. We invite you to become part of Connecticut’s most comprehensive healthcare network.
Charlotte Hungerford Hospital is a 122-bed, general acute care community hospital located in Torrington, Connecticut, that serves as a regional health care resource for the 100,000 residents of Litchfield County and Northwest Connecticut. CHH offers personalized attention from an expert team of caregivers and physicians that utilize advanced technology and clinical partnerships in a convenient, safe and comfortable patient environment.
Registered Nurses utilize the nursing process (assessment, planning, intervention, documentation, and evaluation) to provide direct and indirect patient care based on area(s) assigned, addressing the age appropriate needs of all patients.
Follows nursing department philosophies, policies and procedures to develop unique education and care plans for each patient and provide appropriate education and support for family members.
Utilizes judgment, knowledge and understanding of patient and family needs when directing ancillary staff.
Responsible for ensuring customer satisfaction (patient, family, physician, others), maintaining patient confidentiality and being sensitive to the age specific patient needs for comfort, privacy and generalized care. Incumbents of this position will annually complete the attached competency requirements specific to their area(s) of responsibility.
Qualifications
- Maintains current license as a Registered Nurse in the State of Connecticut
- Bachelor’s degree in field of Nursing preferred.
- Minimum of one year PACU or Critical Care nursing experience required.
We take great care of careers.
With locations around the state, Hartford HealthCare offers exciting opportunities for career development and growth. Here, you are part of an organization on the cutting edge – helping to bring new technologies, breakthrough treatments and community education to countless men, women and children. We know that a thriving organization starts with thriving employees- we provide a competitive benefits program designed to ensure work/life balance. Every moment matters. And this is your moment .
What's around it?
Torrington, CTFrom Census ACS 2024.
Living costs about 4% above the US average
- Median rent
- $1,169/mo
- Household income
- $70,856/yr, all local households, not nurse pay