RN Weekends 4C Medical Telemetry Days Full time

Mercy • Springfield, MO

5d

About The Position

Utilizes the Mercy Nursing Conceptual Framework and nursing process to provide patient care. Maintains professional accountability for the care of assigned patients, coordinates care in conjunction with other departments, and protects patient rights and confidentiality.

This role works every weekend—Friday, Saturday, and Sunday—from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. after orientation. The 4C unit serves medical cardiac patients with chronic and acute conditions requiring telemetry and cardiac management. Patients may have multisystem management needs, including heart failure, respiratory distress, unmanageable dysrhythmias, pneumonia, sepsis, COPD, diabetes, and gastrointestinal conditions. The unit also coordinates care for patients needing cath lab, angiography, dialysis, outpatient infusion or chemotherapy, and anticoagulation therapies.

Mercy Springfield offers a year-long Nurse Residency Program tailored to the nurse’s specialty. All graduate nurses participate, as do select experienced nurses based on their experience and professional development needs.

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited registered professional nursing program.
• Obtain and maintain a current RN license in the state where nursing duties are performed and/or compact licensure, and meet all state board of nursing requirements.
• Hold Basic Life Support certification through the American Heart Association, or successfully complete the course within 30 days of hire.
• Ability to push, pull, and/or lift 50 pounds regularly.
• Ability to stand and walk for prolonged periods during each shift.
• Ability to grip, reach, bend, kneel, twist, and squat to perform duties.

Responsibilities

• Use the Mercy Nursing Conceptual Framework and nursing process to provide patient care.
• Maintain professional accountability for the care of assigned patients.
• Coordinate patient care with other departments.
• Maintain patient rights and confidentiality of patient information.
• Manage medical cardiac patients with chronic or acute conditions requiring telemetry and cardiac management.
• Coordinate management of patients needing cath lab, angiography, dialysis, outpatient infusion or chemotherapy, and anticoagulation therapies.

Benefits

• Education assistance, including up to $20,000 in loan forgiveness for new graduate nurses.
• Tuition reimbursement up to $2,000 per year.
• $3,000 relocation assistance for full-time employees.
• Weekend differential.
• Shift differential for qualifying hours between 3 p.m. and 7 a.m.
• Weekend Option Days rates plus weekend differential.
• Weekend Option Nights rates plus weekend differential and straight night shift differential.
• Weekend Option Differential of $10.
• Day-one medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Paid time off and vacation time.
• Up to 80 hours of frontloaded PTO for experienced full-time RNs.
• Employer-matched retirement funds.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level