Clinical Nurse Pre-Admission Testing Center

BJC HealthCare • St. Louis, MO

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

Barnes Jewish Hospital's Pre-Admission Testing Center is seeking a Clinical Nurse to join their team. This role offers a hybrid of clinical nursing, scheduling, chart preparation, medical record retrieval, and RN phone triage. The position involves performing in-person patient assessments in an outpatient clinic setting with hours typically from 7:30 AM to 6:00 PM, though these may vary slightly. The role rotates between BJH, Barnes-Jewish West County, and South County CAM. There are no weekends, holidays, or on-call duties required. The schedule includes 2-3 late shifts within a 6-week period. The BJC Registered Nurse Career Ladder is a program designed to empower nurses, promote professional development, leadership, collaboration, education, and service excellence, allowing for career advancement and pay increases aligned with new job descriptions.

Requirements

• RN license
• Need to obtain Illinois license within 60 days of hire
• Nursing Diploma/Associate's in Nursing
• No Experience required for the role itself, but 2 years RN experience is preferred.

Nice To Haves

• 2 years RN experience preferred
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
• <2 years of 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, vision, 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: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree