The SICU Registered Nurse assumes responsibility and accountability for applying the nursing process and delivery of patient care in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU), sometimes referred to as Post Anesthesia Care Units (PACUs). The Registered Nurse consistently performs according to nursing standards and is accountable for managing patient care post-operatively and assisting others in the management of patients as they come out of anesthesia.

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities:**

+ Utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care
+ Performs focused interview to identify specific patient’s needs
+ Assesses signs and symptoms indicating physiologic and psychosocial changes in the patient’s condition
+ Collects, analyzes, and interprets data and information from health care members and documents actual and/or potential nursing diagnoses
+ Plans for expected outcomes of care for those patients assigned
+ Clos...