Registered Nurse (RN) Emergency Room
About The Position
The Registered Nurse in the Emergency Room establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families. The RN promotes and restores patients’ health by completing the nursing process, collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary team members, providing physical and psychological support, and supervising assigned team members. The RN promotes patient independence by establishing care goals, teaching patients and their friends and families about conditions, medications, and self-care skills, and answering questions. The role assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards, measuring outcomes against patient care goals and standards, making or recommending adjustments, and following nursing philosophies and standards set by the state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agencies. This is a full-time position scheduled for 36 hours per week on the night shift, 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., at Good Shepherd Hospital in Shelbyville, Illinois. The listed pay range is $32.00–$48.30; actual pay depends on relevant experience, skills, training, certifications, and education. A $15,000 sign-on payment is listed. HSHS describes a system serving communities in Illinois and Wisconsin, with 13 hospitals, numerous community-based health centers and clinics, and more than 13,000 colleagues. Its stated values are respect, care, competence, and joy, with a focus on improving processes, procedures, and outcomes using advanced technologies and treatments while keeping patients at the center of its work.
Requirements
- Graduate from an accredited and approved school of nursing accepted for licensure in the state of practice.
- Be licensed as a Registered Nurse (RN) in the state of practice. Wisconsin RNs may practice with a valid multi-state RN license under Nurse Licensure Compact rules.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification is required.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree in Nursing is preferred.
- Experience in healthcare is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Provide emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.
- Complete the nursing process to promote and restore patients’ health.
- Collaborate with physicians and multidisciplinary team members.
- Provide physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families.
- Supervise assigned team members.
- Establish patient care goals and promote patient independence.
- Teach patients, friends, and family members about the patient’s condition, medications, and self-care skills; answer their questions.
- Adhere to therapeutic standards and measure health outcomes against patient care goals and standards.
- Make or recommend necessary adjustments to care.
- Follow nursing philosophies and standards of care established by the state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agencies.
Benefits
- Medical, prescription, dental, and vision coverage for eligible full-time and part-time colleagues.
- Paid Time Off combining vacation, sick, and personal days.
- Retirement benefits including HSHS contributions.
- Educational assistance up to $5,250 per calendar year and tuition discounts at select colleges, with no waiting period.
- Adoption assistance up to $7,500 to reimburse eligible adoption-related costs.
- Wellness program with incentives.
- Employer-paid life insurance.
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- Flexible spending accounts.
- Employee assistance program.
- Identity theft coverage.
- Colleague rewards and recognition program.
- Discount program.
- $15,000 sign-on payment.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
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