Registered Nurse, Long-Term Care Unit / Skilled Nursing Facility

Mercy Health System•Janesville, WI

44d•Onsite

About The Position

Full time: 36 hours per week Shifts: Days and nights Weekend and Holiday Rotation Mercy Manor is a small skilled nursing facilty (28 beds). That provides subacute care. Join the exceptional team at Mercyhealth Transitional Care Center-Janesville! Our facility is connected to our Janesville hospital, offering a unique setting where nursing staff have access to valuable resources and collaborative support. Our culture is built on kindness, teamwork, and a shared commitment to helping patients heal and thrive in a compassionate environment. Provides compassionate, culturally sensitive, holistic nursing care to patients in a clinical setting, supporting the Mercyhealth nursing mission, practice values and strategic plan. May include variable shifts, weekends, holiday and or on-call hours. Performs other duties as assigned including floating to various units based on identified needs and clinical competency. In select departments, RN Residency is a requirement if you are a new nurse with less 1 year of nursing experience and is also available to nurses that are new to the hospital setting. Our program is designed to help you be more successful and have support in your first year of nursing.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited nursing program.
ADN required upon hire, BSN preferred.
May require specific years of applicable experience to qualify (per department guidelines)
Licensed as an RN in state of practice
Approved CPR/BLS certification required within 90 days
Other certification(s) per unit requirements. For example : ACLS, PALS, PEARS, and NRP

Responsibilities

Utilizes the nursing process and collaborates with interdisciplinary team members in caring for patients.
Administers prescribed medications and treatments in accordance with approved nursing techniques, policies and procedures, standards of care, and State laws practice act.
Documents according to standards of care.
Performs assessments, planning, intervention, and evaluation of care.
Develops, initiates, and executes a patient plan of care according to the individualized needs of the patient, as prescribed by Physician and or clinic policy including patient and family instruction.
Participates in department or unit performance improvement activities, may include shared governance.
Utilizes clinical expertise and guidance to other units' departments in support of the patient's longitudinal plan of care.
Utilizes critical thinking regarding patient safety and patient experience and appropriately escalates to the appropriate chain of command.
Participates in the professional nursing continuum process, unit practice activities and decisions and peer review process.