Registered Nurse - Medical Surgical Unit 4200

SSM Health • Mount Vernon, IL

19h • Onsite

About The Position

Provides direct nursing care in accordance with established policies, procedures and protocols of the healthcare organization. This role focuses on utilizing standards of medical-surgical nursing practice to enhance the quality of care and quality of life for patients, families, and significant others. The nurse will systematically evaluate the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice, establish effective relationships, and serve as an advocate for patients and their families. A key aspect of this role involves using the nursing process to develop and implement care plans, including patient assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, intervention, and evaluation. The position requires a comprehensive understanding of patient needs across various dimensions, including physical, functional, cultural, social, economic, developmental, spiritual, vocational, and leisure. Leadership skills are essential for coordinating and collaborating with patients, families, and the inter-professional team. Effective communication is crucial for collaborative decision-making, ensuring care is culturally sensitive, ethical, legal, holistic, informed, compassionate, humane, and economically feasible. The nurse will also educate patients and families on health promotion and comfort measures, and foster a healthy work environment by mentoring colleagues and students. Care delivery must be based on evidence-based practice and scientific knowledge, tailored to the patient's age-specific and clinical needs. The role requires constant alertness and safe practices, with the possibility of performing point-of-care testing. Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Graduate of accredited school of nursing or education equivalency for licensing
• No experience required
• Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
• Registered Professional Nurse (RN) - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) OR Registered Professional Nurse (RN) - Missouri Division of Professional Registration OR Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State OR Registered Nurse (RN) - Oklahoma Board of Nursing (OBN) OR Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State OR Registered Nurse (RN) - Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services

Responsibilities

• Uses standards of medical-surgical nursing practice to increase the quality of care and quality of life for the patient, family, and significant other(s) by systematically evaluating the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice.
• Establishes effective relationships and serves as an advocate with the patient, family, and significant other(s) to facilitate the development of the care plan unique to the patient’s care needs.
• Uses the nursing process to develop and implement the plan of care, collect assessment data for each patient, determine appropriate nursing diagnoses, identify expected patient outcomes, determine the plan of care, implement interventions, and evaluate patient outcomes.
• Develops assessment and management strategies based on a consideration of the physical, functional, cultural, social, economic, developmental, spiritual, vocational, and leisure dimensions of human responses to actual and potential health problems.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the impact of actual or potential illness and each patient’s physical, functional, cultural, social, economic, developmental, spiritual, vocational, and leisure status.
• Utilizes leadership skills by coordinating and collaborating with the patient, family, significant other(s), communities, and members of the inter-professional team in assessing needs, setting goals, planning interventions, providing care, and evaluating outcomes.
• Utilizes effective communication to participate with the patient, family, significant other(s), and other health care providers in collaborative decision making that reflects the understanding that care should be culturally sensitive, ethical, legal, holistic, informed, compassionate, and humane, and within the boundaries of available economic resources.
• Educates the patient, family, and significant other(s) about measures that promote, maintain, and restore health or promote comfort.
• Fosters a healthy work environment within the practice setting and profession by serving as a mentor and role model for nursing colleagues, students, and others.
• Applies the existing body of evidence-based practice and scientific knowledge in health care to medical-surgical nursing practice, ensuring that nursing care is delivered based on patient’s age-specific needs and clinical needs as described in the department's Scope of Service.
• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
• May perform point of care testing according to policies and procedures.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• 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: voluntary benefit offered through DailyPay allows eligible hourly team members instant access to their earned, unpaid base pay (fees may apply) before payday.
• Upfront Tuition Coverage: provided through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed