RN - Inpatient Services - Nights
Company: SSM Health
Location: Monroe
Posted on: January 25, 2023
Job Description:
It's more than a career, it's a calling.WI-Monroe Clinic
HospitalWorker Type:RegularJob Highlights:At SSM Health, we know
the healing power of presence begins with compassionate employees
like you. -As an RN, you've chosen a career where patients matter-a
lot. -As an RN in the Inpatient Services unit, you will assess and
intervene complex patient care needs and act as an advocate for
each patient. You may comfort patients and their families,
encourage patients to improve, and fulfill other roles as needed.
This position is scheduled for 36 hours a week as a night shift. At
SSM Health, you can expect a work environment where: - -
- Employees feel valued, respected and free to express themselves;
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- Each employee finds meaning in work, leveraging skills and
talents toward a greater purpose; -
- Teamwork and collaboration is encouraged, while management is
supportive. -If you're a patient advocate first--- -
If you listen and respond with great care--- -
If the needs, wants, and goals of each patient matter to you---
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Then we'd love to learn more! Please fill out your application
today. -
Join a network of healthcare professionals just as kind and
powerful as you.Job Summary:Under supervision and in collaboration
with other health care professionals, assists in performing a
variety of nursing care services for patients.Job Responsibilities
and Requirements:PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Contributes to overall quality and safe care for patients by
answering - patients' calls for help, taking their vital signs, and
monitoring - their behavior and physical condition for progress or
deterioration - as measured by patient satisfaction, quality
audits, direct observation.
- Creates a positive patient experience by assisting patients
with their activities of daily living including assisting with
baths, ambulating, feeding, skin care, personal and oral hygiene
and making occupied and unoccupied beds as measured by patient
satisfaction quality audits and direct observation.
- Contributes to quality care and safety by assisting and
performing procedures such as - performing dressing changes,
enemas, ostomy care, toileting, turning, cough and deep breathing,
catheter care, collection of biological specimens, measuring and
recording intake and output of fluids.
- Contributes to exceptional patient satisfaction by establishing
a compassionate environment, timely responses to patients' needs,
open communication and providing emotional and psychological
support.
- Contributes to safety and quality care by relaying information
via charting and communicating to team members.
- Contributes to achievement of exceptional health care by
functioning as a member of the team as measured by active
participation in department initiatives, unit meetings, committees
and special projects.
- Informs licensed nurse of any changes in patient
condition/needs, of patient complaints, and of patient/significant
other educational needs.
- Prepares patients for discharge and accompanies them upon
dismissal as indicated.
- Stocks and maintains supplies and equipment in keeping with
patient care needs and cost containment. - Utilizes time and
supplies economically and conscientiously.
- Orients new patients and significant others to the nursing
unit.
- Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
- Performs other duties as assigned.EDUCATION
- Current enrollee of an accredited school of nursing; Bachelor's
enrollees must have completed junior year; Associate's enrollees
must have completed second semester clinicals; Graduate has failed
a licensure exam and is awaiting retake for a maximum of six months
post graduation.EXPERIENCE
- No experience requiredPHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Constant standing and walking.
- Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through
oral communication.
- Frequent use of hearing to distinguish body sounds and/or hear
alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
- Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing
0-25 lbs.
- Frequent reaching, gripping, and keyboard use/data entry.
- Frequent use of vision for distances near (20 inches or less)
and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish
colors.
- Occasional bending, stooping, crawling, kneeling, sitting,
squatting and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
- Occasional use of vision to judge distances and spatial
relationships.
- Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects
weighing 25-50 lbs.
- Occasional lifting/moving patients.
- Occasional use of smell to detect/recognize odors.
- Occasional driving.Department:1001000028 Inpatient ServicesWork
Shift:Night Shift (United States of America)Scheduled Weekly
Hours:36SSM Health complies with applicable Federal civil rights
laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color,
national origin, age, disability or sex.Learn more here
Keywords: SSM Health, Rockford , RN - Inpatient Services - Nights, Healthcare , Monroe, Illinois
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