Staff Nurse I One Day Surgery

• Job Summary • The One Day Surgery Staff Nurse is a professional nurse who, with minimal supervision, assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates nursing care for patients/families undergoing general anesthesia or procedures. This position will be required to work in both One Day Surgery and PACU in Preop, Phase 1 and Postop care.
• Education • Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Experience
• Licensures, Certifications, and/or Registries • Current RN license in the State of Alabama.

  • Current BLS certification.

Additional Information

One Day Surgery is an acute care area that is the gateway for the majority of the patients undergoing surgical procedures at Children’s of Alabama Benjamin Russell campus. Patients are pre-operatively prepared for surgery and post-operatively educated and prepared for discharge. A wide field of diagnoses is seen in One Day Surgery due to the varying surgical sub-specialties which include but are not limited to Orthopedics, Neurosurgery, ENT, Dental, GI, GU, Ophthalmology, Pulmonary, Plastics and General. The Benjamin Russell facility is comprised of forty patient beds with a typical patient flow of forty to sixty patients per day and the Minor Procedure facility has twenty-three beds with a typical patient flow of fifteen to twenty-five patients. Typical age ranges are from two months until adulthood. The units open at 5:30 am and the nursing staff works a variety of shifts to cover operating time.