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Northwestern Medicine

Academic medical center research, teaching, care

Registered Nurse Float-PACU Day-Surgery Pre-Post As-Needed

Nursing & Frontline Patient CareUpdated on Nov 12
Full-timeDeKalb, IL, USA$37 - $60.98 /hrIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) or an associate degree in Nursing (ADN), with commitment to obtain a BSN from an accredited program within three years of the first day of employment in a clinical nurse role.
  • A current State of Illinois Registered Professional Nurse credential.
  • Basic Life Support.
  • Strong interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to collaborate with others.
  • Strong analytic abilities.
  • For Emergency Room assignments, ACLS is required.
  • For Emergency Room assignments, PALS/ENPC and TNCC are required within one year of hire.
  • For Pediatric Emergency Room assignments, Pediatric Advanced Life Support is required.
  • For Pediatric Emergency Room assignments, TNCC is required within one year of hire.
  • For the Prepost PACU Department, PALS and ACLS are required.

Responsibilities

  • Prescribe, delegate, and coordinate nursing care for acutely ill patients through assessment, planning, intervention, implementation, and evaluation.
  • Interact effectively with patients, significant others, and other health team members while maintaining ANA standards of professional nursing practice.
  • Collect and analyze data, identify expected outcomes, develop and implement individualized plans, coordinate care delivery, and evaluate progress toward outcomes.
  • Direct care and determine appropriate utilization of assistants involved in direct patient care.
  • Collaborate with patients, families, physicians, and ancillary staff; create a documented plan focused on outcomes and care-delivery decisions, recording communications with patients, families, and others.
  • Participate in shared governance, committee work, and unit projects.
  • Evaluate and document patient responses to nursing interventions in the health record and individualize the plan of care based on evaluation findings.
  • Use the best available evidence, including research findings, to guide practice decisions.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in the specific clinical area.

About the Company

Northwestern Medicine

Academic medical center research, teaching, care

Northwestern Medicine brings together Northwestern Memorial HealthCare and the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine to advance health care through research, teaching, and patient care. It runs an academic medical system with more than 33,000 staff, faculty, students, and researchers across 200 locations, including five hospitals that are ranked among America’s Best by U.S. News & World Report (2025–2026). The organization offers medical care by clinicians and scientists who also teach and study new treatments, meaning patients may benefit from up-to-date therapies developed through ongoing research. Its approach combines hospital services, medical education, and scientific discovery in one ecosystem, which sets it apart from ordinary clinics. The goal is to improve medicine so that patients receive higher-quality care and safer, better outcomes.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Grant
Total funding
$25M
Headquarters
Chicago, IL
Founded
2009

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