PACU Nurse PRN
Los Gatos, California
This one is per diem, so you pick up the shifts you want. Los Gatos Surgical Center runs at clinic pace, on scheduled patients.
- Unit and setting
- PACU
- License
- RN license
- Term
- Per Diem
What it pays
- Against similar roles
- Pays above most California PRN rolesCalifornia PRN postings that state pay run $35/hr to $93/hr, the middle half $42/hr to $75/hr, across 869 postings.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Prescription drug coverage
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Behavioral health services
- Telemedicine services
More benefits (17)
- Free counseling and referral services
- Paid time off
- Paid family leave
- Long-term disability coverage
- Short-term disability coverage
- Leaves of absence
- 401(k) Plan with 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Flexible spending accounts
- Tuition assistance
- Student loan assistance
- Certification support
- Dependent scholarships
- Fertility and family building benefits
- Adoption assistance
- Life insurance
- Supplemental health protection plans
The workplace
Los Gatos Surgical Center is an ambulatory surgery center located in Los Gatos, California, specializing in outpatient same-day surgical procedures that do not require traditional hospitalization. The facility is affiliated with HCA Healthcare, as evidenced by its careers portal directing…
Worth asking
- Can you walk me through base pay range and differentials?
- What should I expect for shifts, weekly hours, weekend, holiday, call, and rotation?
More questions to askFewer questions
- What orientation, preceptor time, and ongoing unit support are included?
- How are patient load, floating, and staffing support handled day to day?
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Your fit
On your path
Operating Room is a specialty you move into. Periop programs often train from the ground up.
Original listing
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We are seeking a PACU Nurse for our ambulatory surgery center who demonstrates the values of our company by caring like family. You will ensure safe and effective nursing care rendered postoperatively until the patient is dismissed from the facility. Prepare your patients' care area adequately and ensure necessary equipment and supplies and provided.
Demonstrate proper airway management techniques. Monitor your patients according to policy (vital signs, temperature, cardiac, etc.). Exhibit proper technique for insertion, maintenance, and removal of IV catheters and saline locks.
Perform and document head to toe evaluation of your patients utilizing an approved scoring system. Check dressings and/or operative site of your patients and report abnormalities to the surgeon. Provide a safe and comforting environment for your patients and family.
Ensure your patients meet discharge criteria.
What's around it?
Los Gatos, CAFrom Census ACS 2024.
Living costs about 11% above the US average
- Median rent
- $3,247/mo
- Household income
- $217,554/yr, all local households, not nurse pay