
RN PreOp PACU
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Job overview
The RN PreOp PACU provides perioperative nursing care in an ambulatory surgery center, planning, executing, and evaluating care before and after procedures until patients are discharged. The role includes preparing care areas, assessing patients, administering prescribed medications and IV therapy, and monitoring operative sites. Candidates need an associate degree in nursing or higher, an active RN license, and at least one year of clinical nursing experience.
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Full job description
Ready for a role that supports your unique calling in patient care and fits your life? At Ambulatory Surgery Center Tampa, you’ll find clear pathways to advance backed by our unmatched nationwide transfer policy that lets you grow your career when the time is right for you. With mentorship opportunities, clinical education courses, professional certification support, and educational assistance, you will have all the resources you need to build the career of a lifetime.
Job Summary and Qualifications
Join our team as a Perioperative Nurse in our ambulatory surgery center. You will be responsible for planning, executing, and evaluating the nursing care rendered preoperatively and postoperatively until your patients are discharged. As a valued addition to our company, you will exhibit the values of Surgery Ventures powered by HCA Healthcare as a whole, as well as your individual center, providing quality care like family.
What you will do in this role:
Prepare your patients’ care area adequately before case
Ensure availability of necessary equipment and supplies for your patients’ procedure
Conduct complete physical, and psychological assessment and evaluation of your patients’ history and diagnostic tests
Administer pre-operative medications and intravenous therapy as prescribed
You will exhibit proper technique for insertion, maintenance, and removal of IV catheters and saline locks
Check dressings and/or operative site of your patients and report abnormalities to the surgeon
Ensure your patients meet discharge criteria
Qualifications you will need:
Associate Degree in Nursing or RN Diploma or Higher degree in Nursing Required
1+ years of nursing experience in a clinical setting, preferably in PACU, ICU or Surgery
Active RN license as required by state of employment
**BCLS Certification upon employment. *online certification not acceptable
ACLS required within 30-days of hire
PALS if required by facility within 30-days of hire
Benefits
Ambulatory Surgery Center Tampa, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
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Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
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Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
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Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
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Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
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Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
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Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts
Learn more about Employee Benefits (https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/employee-benefits-and-rewards)
Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.
Ambulatory Surgery Center (https://tampaambulatory.com/) located in Tampa,Florida. We offer orthopedic, ophthalmology, GI, urology, podiatry, plastics and painmanagement services to the residents of Hillsborough and Pasco counties. We see over 500 casesa month. The center has 100% physician survey participation. Our attentive nurses andsupportive administrative staff are dedicated to providing the highest quality care. We are a partSurgery Ventures powered by HCA Healthcare.
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times.. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for thedelivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
"Nurses are essential to the delivery of healthcare and serve as its foundation. At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to equipping nurses with the tools and resources they need to deliver exceptional patient care, championing the profession, and supporting the advancement of nursing’s future."
Erica Rossitto, MBA/HCM, BSN, RN, NEA-BC
Senior Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive
HCA Healthcare
Join a family that cares about every stage in your career! We are interviewing candidates for our RN PreOp PACU opening. Apply today and a member of our Talent Acquisition team will reach out.
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
How this job compares
Set against the 517 open Perioperative Nurse jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$38–55/hr261 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 31 open Perioperative Nurse jobs in Florida and 517 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Florida
- HCA Healthcare (this employer)15 open
- AdventHealth6 open
- Mayo Clinic4 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience; Perioperative Nurse postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year at the median (323 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for an associate degree; 148 of the 517 open Perioperative Nurse jobs (29%) ask for an associate degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 31, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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