Registered Nurse – PACU
| Location | Gallup, New Mexico |
| Date Posted | June 25, 2025 |
| Category |
Nursing
|
| Job Type |
Full-time
|
| Internal Job ID | 25-00179 |
Description
The Location – Navajo Nation
Navajo Area Indian Health Services administers health centers, and hospitals, providing health care to approximately 201,516 members of the Navajo Nation. The Navajo Nation is the largest Native tribe in the United States and has the largest reservation, which encompasses more than 25,516 square miles in northern Arizona, western New Mexico, and southern Utah, with three satellite communities in central New Mexico. The NAIHS is the primary provider of inpatient, ambulatory care, preventive and community health, and environmental health services for members of the Navajo Nation and the San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe.
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Gallup Indian Medical Center
Gallup Indian Medical Center (GIMC) is a 78-bed hospital in Gallup, New Mexico, on the border of the Navajo Reservation. Clinical specialties at GIMC include Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Anesthesia, OB/GYN, General Surgery, Orthopedics, Ophthalmology, ENT, Radiology, Pathology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Emergency Medicine, and Urology. The workload at Gallup is one of the largest in the Indian Health Service with 310,000 outpatient encounters and 4,400 inpatient admissions annually. GIMC has the largest staff of all Navajo Area Client facilities.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities (may included but are not limited to):
- Documenting observations, assessments, and changes in patient's condition.
- Collaborating with healthcare team members and other interdisciplinary teams to facilitate positive patient care outcomes.
- Providing a full range of complex and comprehensive nursing care to patients with a variety of physical and/or behavioral problems.
- Accountable for meeting and maintaining the qualification standards and functional statements of the job.
- Demonstrates organizational skills which enable completion of work in a timely manner with demonstrated ability to assume a leadership role in a patient-centered program.
- Establishes effective communication with patients, families, visitors and members of the interdisciplinary team.
- Prepare patients for surgical and diagnostic procedures and assist with procedures as necessary.
- Provide post-procedure and post-operative recovery care.
- Respond to emergency codes as directed and summon appropriate backup from clinical and hospital staff.
- Provide the full range of PACU nursing services within the professional scope of practice for a variety of operative procedures.
- Head-to-toe assessment. Knowledge of normal versus abnormal findings and reporting of abnormal findings to Charge Nurse and/or M.D., if warranted.
- Critical thinking to intervene with appropriate intervention for urgent/emergent care. Care of acute and chronically ill patients.
- Knowledge of hemodynamics.
- Basic IV and central line skills.
- Basic understanding of cardiac monitoring equipment.
- The ability to identify and manage life-sustaining physiologic functions in unstable patients.
- Conduct post-operative patient evaluations, summon the appropriate specialist in emergency situations and provide nursing care as necessary throughout the post-operative episode.
Requirements:
- 3 years nursing experience with a minimum of 2 years in PACU
- Current, valid unrestricted nursing license in a state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a Territory of the United States
- Current certifications in BLS, ACLS. (other certifications may be required based on specialty)
Schedule determined by nursing supervisor.
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