Registered Nurse-OR-Day Shift

Southern Illinois Hospital Services•Carbondale, IL

9d•Onsite

About The Position

Responsible for providing professional nursing care for SIH patients. This includes assessing patients' mental, physical, and spiritual needs, establishing a compassionate environment to provide emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients and families. The role involves assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating an individual plan of care in collaboration with the multidisciplinary health care team. Additionally, the nurse will provide health teaching and counseling to promote optimal patient health, utilize clinical judgment and critical thinking to manage changes in patient condition, and ensure complete, accurate, and timely documentation in patient medical records. The position also contributes to the development of policies and procedures supporting patient safety and quality of care, supervises and delegates responsibilities to licensed practical nurses and/or unlicensed assistants, serves as a patient advocate through communication and collaboration with other health professionals, and completes required education, competencies, and licensure. The nurse may also be required to float to other SIH nursing units within their competency level.

Requirements

Associate, Diploma, Bachelor’s degree or Master’s in Nursing
Current Illinois Registered Nurse license
Current CPR/BLS Card
Current ACLS card (within 6 months of hire)
Current ACLS & PALS card (within 6 months of hire)
TNCC or TNS (within 1 year of hire or residency graduation) - required effective 6/2026
ECRN (within 24 months of hire of residency graduation) - required effective 6/2026
ACLS, Fetal Monitoring – Monitoring, & NRP (within 6 months of hire)
NRP (within 6 months of hire)
NRP & PALS (within 6 months of hire)
ONS CTC-Infusion Center: (Fundamentals within first 6 months) and Chemotherapy Certificate Course (within 1 year, renewed every 2 years)
SJ-Infusion: (Fundamentals within first 6 months, renewed every 2 years) or ONS Chemotherapy Certificate (renewed every 2 years)

Nice To Haves

Current PALS card (within 6 months of hire)
Current TNCC or TNS (within 1 year of hire or residency graduation)
Current ECRN (within 24 months of hire of residency graduation)
Current Fetal Monitoring – Monitoring, & NRP (within 6 months of hire)
Current NRP (within 6 months of hire)
Current PALS (within 6 months of hire)
ONS CTC-Infusion Center: Fundamentals within first 6 months
ONS CTC-Infusion Center: Chemotherapy Certificate Course (within 1 year, renewed every 2 years)
SJ-Infusion: Fundamentals within first 6 months, renewed every 2 years
SJ-Infusion: ONS Chemotherapy Certificate (renewed every 2 years)

Responsibilities

Assess patients to determine mental, physical, and spiritual needs
Establish a compassionate environment to provide emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patient and families
Assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates an individual plan of care in collaboration with the multidisciplinary health care team.
Provide in health teaching and counseling to promote, attain, and maintain the optimum health level of patients
Demonstrate ability to use clinical judgement in conjunction with critical thinking to recognize, act upon, and report changes in patient condition.
Complete, accurate and timely documentation in patient medical record
Provide input into the development of policies and procedures to support patient safety and quality of care
Supervision and delegation responsibilities of licensed practical nurse and/or unlicensed assistant personnel
Serve as an advocate for the patient by communicating and collaborating with other health service professionals
Timely completion of required education, competencies, and licensure.
Float to other SIH nursing units within competency level