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Ambulatory Surgery Nurse

Dignity Health

Woodland, CAJob$72.64–88.21/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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Compensation
$72.64–88.21/hr
Location
Woodland, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

California RN LicenseBLS CertificationACLS CertificationPALS Certification

Job overview

The Ambulatory Surgery Nurse provides individualized care for patients, including assessment, care planning, skilled procedures, and evaluation of responses. The role collaborates with the healthcare team and provides education to patients and families. Candidates need PACU RN experience in an acute care setting, though applicants without the experience may be considered when staffing can support a trainee, and must hold the listed California nursing license and certifications.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Patient AssessmentCare PlanningPatient CarePatient EducationHealthcare Team Communication

Qualifications

1 Year PACU RN ExperienceCalifornia RN LicenseBLS CertificationACLS CertificationPALS Certification

Full job description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery.

Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

To be successful in this role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.

  • Assess patients physical, psychosocial, and cultural needs considering diagnosis, age, care setting, desire for care and response to care plan

  • Plan care, collaborating with other members of the healthcare team.

  • Deliver competent care as required by patient, plan of care, and care setting.

  • Evaluate patients responses to care.

  • Provide interactive patient and family education.

  • Communicate effectively with all members of the healthcare team.

Job Requirements

Required

  • 1 year experience required as a post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) RN in an acute care setting (when staffing is experienced enough to support a trainee, applicants without the requisite experience may be considered)

  • Active Registered Nurse (RN) license in the State of California

  • Basic Life Support (BLS) certification - American Heart Association

  • Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification - American Heart Association

  • Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification - American Heart Association

Where You'll Work

Dignity Health Woodland Memorial Hospital is Yolo County’s largest health care provider, serving the community since 1905. Woodland Memorial Hospital is a 108-bed acute care facility offering the most comprehensive range of health care services in Yolo County, including inpatient and outpatient surgical services, family birth center/labor and delivery, emergency services, home health services, palliative care, inpatient mental health services, sleep disorders center and cancer care services. With strong ties to our community, we believe in providing compassionate, high-quality health care to you and your family, close to home. Woodland Memorial Hospital is part of Dignity Health, one of the nation’s largest health care systems with a 22-state network. For more information, please visit our website here (http://www.dignityhealth.org/woodland) at www.dignityhealth.org/woodland.

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Pay Range

$72.64 - $88.21 /hour

We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

How this job compares

Set against the 29,594 open Nurse jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$72.64–88.21/hr
  • California median$52–74/hr901 hourly ranges
  • US median$34–45/hr13,010 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $80.43/hr, is 29% above the California median midpoint ($62/hr) — in the middle half of Nurse hourly ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 1,348 open Nurse jobs in California and 29,594 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience; Nurse postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year at the median (12,253 postings).
Education
3,273 of the 29,594 open Nurse jobs (11%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 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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