RN Charge Weekends3- 4C Medical Telemetry-Full Time Nights

Mercy•Springfield, MO

About The Position

The Charge Nurse manages patient care unit operations during a particular shift and provides leadership, support, mentorship, and guidance to staff who deliver direct patient care. The role coordinates care delivery by determining staffing needs, making appropriate patient assignments, ensuring timely, safe, effective, high-quality care, and coordinating patients’ plans of care with bedside nurses. The Charge Nurse establishes expectations for professional conduct, serves as a unit resource, and holds direct and indirect care providers accountable for their professional responsibilities and adherence to regulatory guidelines. Duties are performed in a manner consistent with Mercy’s Mission, Values, and Service Standards. This position is on 4C Medical Telemetry and works nights, 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., with work scheduled for three out of four weekends. 4C serves medical-cardiac patients with chronic and acute conditions requiring telemetry and cardiac management. Patient populations include people with multisystem management needs such as heart failure, respiratory distress, unmanageable dysrhythmias, pneumonia, sepsis, COPD, diabetes, and gastrointestinal conditions. The unit also coordinates care for patients requiring cath lab, angiography, dialysis, outpatient infusion or chemotherapy, and anticoagulation therapies. Mercy Springfield offers a year-long Nurse Residency Program tailored to each nurse’s specialty. All graduate nurses participate, along with selected 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 hiring state and/or compact licensure covering the state where nursing duties are performed, 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.
Regularly push, pull, and/or lift 50 pounds.
Stand and walk for prolonged periods during each shift.
Be able to grip, reach, bend, kneel, twist, and squat to perform duties.

Responsibilities

Manage patient care unit operations during the assigned shift.
Provide leadership, support, mentorship, and guidance to staff providing direct patient care.
Determine staffing needs and make patient assignments that match patients and responsibilities to appropriate staff.
Coordinate delivery of patient care to ensure it is timely, safe, effective, and high quality.
Coordinate patients’ plans of care with bedside nurses.
Set expectations for professional conduct and serve as a resource for the patient care unit.
Hold direct and indirect care providers accountable for their professional responsibilities and compliance with regulatory guidelines.
Perform duties consistently with Mercy’s Mission, Values, and Service Standards.

Benefits

New graduate sign-on bonus of $5,000.
Sign-on bonus of $13,000 for nurses with 1–2 years of RN experience.
Sign-on bonus of $15,000 for nurses with 3–4 years of RN experience.
Sign-on bonus of $20,000 for nurses with 5 or more years of RN experience.
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 day rates plus weekend differential.
Weekend Option night rates plus weekend differential and straight night shift differential.
Weekend Option differential of $8.00.
Day-one medical, dental, and vision insurance.
Paid time off and vacation time.
Experienced full-time RNs may receive up to 80 hours of PTO/vacation time frontload.
Employer-matched retirement funds.
Tuition support and matched retirement plans for team members working 32 or more hours per pay period.