Registered Nurse (RN) Medical Surgical
About The Position
The Registered Nurse (RN) Medical Surgical 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 the patient’s condition, medications, and self-care skills, and answering questions. The RN assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards, measuring health outcomes against care goals and standards, making or recommending necessary adjustments, and following nursing philosophies and standards established by the state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations. This is a full-time, 36-hour-per-week night-shift role in the Medical Surgical department at St. Anthony’s Hospital in Effingham, Illinois. The schedule includes a weekend rotation (currently every third weekend) and a holiday rotation.
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.
- Hold Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
- Wisconsin RNs may practice with a valid multi-state RN license as outlined in Nurse Licensure Compact rules.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree in Nursing preferred.
- Experience in healthcare preferred.
Responsibilities
- Provide emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.
- Complete the nursing process and collaborate with physicians and multidisciplinary team members to promote and restore patients’ health.
- Provide physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families.
- Supervise assigned team members.
- Establish patient care goals and teach patients, friends, and families about the patient’s condition, medications, and self-care skills.
- Answer questions from patients, friends, and families.
- Measure health outcomes against patient care goals and standards, and make or recommend necessary adjustments.
- Adhere to therapeutic standards and follow nursing philosophies and standards of care set by the state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations.
Benefits
- Medical, prescription, dental, and vision coverage for eligible colleagues.
- Paid Time Off combining vacation, sick, and personal days.
- Retirement benefits including HSHS contributions.
- Education assistance of up to $5,250 per calendar year and tuition discounts at select colleges, with no waiting period.
- Adoption assistance of up to $7,500 for 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
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