Clinical Nurse Observation Unit

BJC HealthCare • St. Louis, MO

13h • Onsite

About The Position

Looking for a fast-paced nursing environment with diverse patient care experiences? Join our 24-bed Observation Unit, where you'll care for patients requiring short-term treatment, monitoring, and recovery, typically within a 24-hour stay. The unit also cares for patients recovering from outpatient procedures, including colorectal, gynecologic, and urologic surgeries. Most patients are discharged home within 24 hours, offering nurses the opportunity to see the full continuum of care while building strong assessment and critical thinking skills.

Requirements

• RN

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's Degree - Nursing
• <2 years experience

Responsibilities

• Provides direct patient care activities including assessment, diagnosis, planning implementation, and evaluation within the guidelines of the standards of nursing care.
• Promotes patient and family centered care in a healing environment.
• Educates patients and their families on how to manage their illness or injury, including post treatment home care needs and medication administration.
• Participates in activities that promote patient safety, quality and regulatory compliance.
• Participates in professional development.
• Develops, implements, and documents individual plans of care with defined goals in collaboration with other members of the interprofessional team and patient, family or caregiver in accordance with the established guidelines and standards of nursing care.
• Proactively plans and ensures communication of the plan of care across the continuum of care.
• Uses critical nursing skills to assess and evaluate physical, psychosocial, and emotional needs according to standards of care.
• Assess patient preferences and barriers to involvement in care, including their values, emotional, spiritual, cultural, and population-specific needs.
• The ability to work in a constant state of alertness and in a safe manner is an essential function of this job.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date
• Disability insurance paid for by BJC
• Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution
• 401(k) plan with BJC match
• Tuition Assistance available on first day
• BJC Institute for Learning and Development
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time
• Adoption assistance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Associate degree