
PACU Registered Nurse
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Job overview
The PACU Registered Nurse provides postoperative nursing care in an ambulatory surgery center until patients are dismissed. The role includes monitoring patients, managing airways and IV catheters, documenting evaluations, reporting operative-site abnormalities, and ensuring discharge criteria are met. Candidates need an associate degree in nursing, RN diploma, or higher nursing degree, an active RN license, and specified certifications; one year of clinical nursing experience is required, preferably in PACU, ICU, or surgery.
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Full job description
As a PACU Registered Nurse, your voice to influence patient care is valued and empowered at every turn –whether through open, collaborative relationships with your direct manager or more formal opportunities through hospital councils and national nursing initiatives. You'll help shape decisions that elevate both patient outcomes and the future of nursing.
Job Summary and Qualifications
We are seeking a PACU Nurse for our ambulatory surgery center who demonstrates the values of our company by caring like family. You will ensure safe and effective nursing care rendered postoperatively until the patient is dismissed from the facility. With your expertise, our center continue its’ legacy of employing nurses who contribute to the company’s mission and vision.
What you will do in this role:
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Prepare your patients’ care area adequately and ensure necessary equipment and supplies and provided
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You will demonstrate proper airway management techniques
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Monitor your patients according to policy (vital signs, temperature, cardiac, etc.).
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You will exhibit proper technique for insertion, maintenance, and removal of IV catheters and saline locks
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Perform and document head to toe evaluation of your patients utilizing an approved scoring system in line with HCA policy and procedure
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Check dressings and/or operative site of your patients and report abnormalities to the surgeon
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Provide a safe and comforting environment for your patients and family
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Ensure your patients meet discharge criteria
Qualifications you will need:
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Associate Degree in Nursing or RN Diploma or Higher degree in Nursing Required
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1+ years of nursing experience in a clinical setting, preferably in PACU, ICU or Surgery
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Active RN license as required by state of employment
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**BCLS Certification upon employment. *online certification not acceptable
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ACLS required within 30-days of hire
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PALS if required by facility within 30-days of hire
Benefits
Physicians Pavilion Surgery Center, 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.
Physicians Pavilion Surgery Center (https://physicianspavilion.com/) is located off I-24 in Smyrna, Tennessee. Our AAAHC accredited center averages over 200 cases amonth. Services in dental, ENT, endoscopy, gastroenterology, gynecology, neurosurgery,ophthalmology, orthopedics, plastics, podiatry and urology procedures. As a member of Surgery Ventures powered by HCA Healthcare, we follow our mission. Above all else, we are committed to the care and improvement of human life.
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.
"The great hospitals will always put the patient and the patient's family first, and the really great institutions will provide care with warmth, compassion, and dignity for the individual."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr. HCA Healthcare Co-Founder
Join a family that cares about every stage in your career! We are interviewing candidates for our PACU Registered Nurse 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 58,881 open Registered Nurse jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 8, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Tennessee median$75–107K/yr79 salary ranges
- Tennessee median$41–53/hr439 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,326 open Registered Nurse jobs in Tennessee and 58,881 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Tennessee
- HCA Healthcare (this employer)207 open
- HealthTrust Workforce Solutions185 open
- Ascension Health156 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience; Registered Nurse postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year at the median (28,911 postings).
- Education
- 4,135 of the 58,881 open Registered Nurse jobs (7%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 8, 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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