More than just a job, it’s a vocation
Location: Our Healthcare Facility
Worker Type: Regular
Position Overview:
- Department: Nursing, with responsibilities across various units (2S, 3S, 4N, TCU, orientation to NICU and ED, and finally to PICU)
- Experience: Minimum of one year as a licensed RN required*
- Schedule: Full-Time, Variable Shifts, 36 Hours/Week
- Shift Differentials: Available for night and weekend shifts
- Location: Our Healthcare Facility
- Sign-On Bonus: Discuss options with your recruiter if you are a qualified external applicant. A two-year service commitment is required for roles eligible for the sign-on bonus program.
Position Summary:
This role involves delivering direct nursing care in alignment with the established policies, procedures, and protocols of our organization.
Key Responsibilities and Qualifications:
PRIMARY DUTIES
- Employs medical-surgical nursing standards to enhance care quality and improve the quality of life for patients, families, and significant others by systematically assessing the effectiveness of nursing practices.
- Builds strong relationships and advocates for patients, families, and significant others to create personalized care plans tailored to individual needs.
- Utilizes the nursing process to formulate and execute care plans, gather assessment data, establish nursing diagnoses, identify expected outcomes, implement interventions, and evaluate results.
- Creates assessment and management strategies that consider the physical, functional, cultural, social, economic, developmental, spiritual, vocational, and leisure aspects of human responses to health challenges.
- Demonstrates understanding of how actual or potential illnesses affect each patient’s overall status.
- Exhibits leadership by coordinating with patients, families, significant others, communities, and interdisciplinary team members to assess needs, set goals, plan interventions, provide care, and evaluate outcomes.
- Engages in effective communication with patients, families, significant others, and healthcare providers to ensure collaborative decision-making that is culturally sensitive, ethical, legal, holistic, informed, compassionate, and humane, while considering available economic resources.
- Educates patients, families, and significant others on health promotion, maintenance, and comfort measures.
- Encourages a positive work environment by mentoring and serving as a role model for nursing colleagues and students.
- Applies evidence-based practices and scientific knowledge in medical-surgical nursing to ensure care is tailored to patients' age-specific and clinical needs as outlined in the department’s Scope of Service.
- Maintains a constant state of alertness and safety.
- May conduct point-of-care testing in accordance with established policies and procedures.
- Performs additional duties as assigned.
EDUCATION
- Graduate from an accredited nursing program or equivalent educational background for licensing.
EXPERIENCE
- At least one year of experience as a registered nurse.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Regularly uses speech for effective oral communication.
- Constantly stands and walks.
- Frequently lifts, carries, and pushes/pulls objects weighing up to 25 lbs.
- Regularly sits, reaches, and engages in keyboard use/data entry.
- Frequently utilizes vision and depth perception for near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) distances, as well as color differentiation.
- Regularly uses smell to identify and recognize odors.
- Frequently employs hearing to receive oral communication and detect body sounds or alarms.
- Occasionally lifts, carries, and pushes/pulls objects weighing between 25-50 lbs.
- Occasionally assists in lifting/moving patients.
- Occasionally bends, stoops, kneels, squats, twists, grips, and performs repetitive movements with feet/legs and hands/arms.
- Occasionally drives.
- Rarely crawls or runs.
REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS
State of Work Location: Missouri
- Basic Life Support Healthcare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
- Registered Nurse (RN) - Missouri Division of Professional Registration
- Or Registered Nurse (RN) issued by a Compact State
Work Shift: Rotating Shift (United States)
Job Type: Employee
Department: Nursing Float
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 36
Benefits:
Our organization values its outstanding employees by providing a comprehensive benefits package tailored to their needs.
- Paid Parental Leave: Eligible team members receive one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE).
- Flexible Payment Options: Our voluntary benefit through DailyPay allows eligible hourly team members to access their earned, unpaid base pay instantly (fees may apply) before payday.
- Upfront Tuition Coverage: We offer upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members.
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Our organization is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
