Staff Nurse - Endoscopy

Good Samaritan • Vincennes, IN

2h

About The Position

Responsible for assessing, formulating plans of care, implementing and evaluating nursing care for assigned patients. The nurse serves as a leader and collaborates with the healthcare team to promote a world-class environment. The role requires a 45-minute callback response time.

Shared governance is a professional structural model based on partnership, equity, accountability, and ownership. It provides a culturally sensitive and empowering framework for sustainable, accountability-based decisions that support interdisciplinary design for excellent patient care.

The nurse performs patient assessments, helps patients and families understand and implement the plan of care, coordinates care with multidisciplinary departments, follows applicable specialty and federal recommendations and hospital policies, and contributes to performance improvement and unit-based governance. The role also includes supporting team members, pursuing ongoing professional education, managing assigned FTE hours and helping maintain the unit budget, and serving as an educational resource for staff, students, and new orientees.

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing and an RN program.
• Registered Nurse license from the Indiana State Board of Nursing.
• Must meet a 45-minute callback response time.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing preferred.

Responsibilities

• Perform systematic, organized patient assessments to support high-quality care and safe outcomes, exercising autonomy when needed to make decisions in the patient's best interest.
• Share education about and implementation of the patient's plan of care with the patient and family.
• Communicate and collaborate with multidisciplinary departments to coordinate efficient, high-quality care for endoscopy patients.
• Follow relevant specialty and federal recommendations, as well as hospital policies and procedures, when caring for patients and performing other tasks.
• Participate in perioperative services nursing and hospital-wide performance improvement activities and the Unit Based Council.
• Provide direction and collaborate with team members to support a healthy work environment.
• Pursue lifelong education and stay current on professional changes and healthcare best practices.
• Be responsible for assigned FTE hours.
• Help maintain financial responsibility by staying within the unit's budget.
• Educate and serve as a resource for other staff members, students, and new orientees.

Benefits

• Robust healthcare and retirement plans.
• Flexible work schedules, with full-time, part-time, and supplemental options and day, evening, or night schedules.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Free access to fitness center.
• Career advancement opportunities.
• Work environments that support professional development and personal success.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Associate degree