Job description
Registered Nurse - PACU
Start Date: 11-09-2026
End Date: 02-08-2027
Contract Type: Contract
Hours per Week: 40
Candidate Pay Rate: $69.30 per hour
About United Health Care Staffing
At United Health Care Staffing (UHC Staffing), we believe healthcare staffing should be more than just finding a job. We are here to connect amazing professionals with opportunities that make their careers exciting, rewarding, and meaningful. With us, you're not just signing up for a contract you are joining a team that's got your back, answers your calls, and maybe even cracks a joke or two to brighten your day. Think of us as the travel buddy who handles the logistics while you focus on what you do best helping people heal.
Education
- Charting System: Cerner
- Unit Notes: - Unit: PACU
- # beds: Main OR 8
- Pavilion 12 beds
- Certs: BLS, ACLS, PALS
- Ratios: 1 to 1 or 1:2 if transition (do send some patients home from here)
- EMR: Cerner--want familiarity with this
- Charge Nurse: Rotating charge who will take patients
- Nurse Aides: none
- Weekend Requirement: 24 hrs hour call/weekend--not required
- Call: 23-07
- 24 hrs call/weekend--not required
- Holidays: 24 hrs hour call/weekend--not required
- Scrub Color: Provided by hospital
- Tele: Phillips
- Vents: Rare--usually only emergent as go to ICU
- Hospitalist or Intensivist in house: Yes, on call after hours
- IV Team: none
- RT 24/7: Yes
- Pharmacy 24/7: 7-2230 in house then satellite
- Shifts: 10 hr and 8 hr shifts
- 07-2300 hours
- Floating: Not required but if have skills can go to ACU or prep area
- Floor specific orientation: Yes, with preceptor
- Common diagnosis / Types of patients: All post operative patients that have had general anesthesia
- ortho, gyn, urology, ENT, general surgeries, cath lab patients
- Additional Notes: All patients in house that have general anesthesia are recovered here including cath lab patients
- critical care patients go directly to ICU to be recovered
- anesthesia 24/7
- Additional Questions: Must have at least 3 years experience and some critical care background preferred
- Years of Experience: 3
- Shift Notes: 10 hour days
- Specialty: PACU Post-Anesthesia Care Unit
- Start Date: 2026-11-09
- End Date: 2027-02-08
- Created Date: 2026-10-12
- Required Hours/Week: 40
- Positions: 1
- Short Description: RN (Registered Nurse)
- Contract Type:
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Ready to start your next adventure as a Registered Nurse - PACU? Let's get you moving forward!
Send your resume to [email protected] or call us at 408-441-9200 today.
Why UHCS
Weekly or bi-weekly pay, medical/dental/vision, a SIMPLE IRA with employer contribution, tests paid on qualifying assignments with payroll deduction available, and one recruiter who stays with you for the whole assignment — reachable after hours. Every placement is credentialed to Joint Commission standards, so your packet is accepted the first time.