Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

More than just a job, it’s a vocation

Worker Type: Regular

Position Highlights:

• Department: Nursing, with responsibilities across various hospital units (2S, 3S, 4N, TCU, orientation to NICU and ED, and finally to PICU)
• Minimum of one year of licensed RN experience required*
• Schedule: Full-Time, Variable Shifts, 36 Hours/Week
• Shift Differentials: Available for night and weekend shifts
• Location: SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital
• Sign-On Bonus: Discuss options with your recruiter for qualified external candidates. Note: A two-year service commitment is required for roles eligible for the sign-on bonus program.

Position Overview:

This role involves delivering direct nursing care in alignment with the established policies, procedures, and protocols of our healthcare organization.

Key Responsibilities and Qualifications:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Employs medical-surgical nursing standards to enhance the quality of care and life for patients, families, and significant others by systematically assessing the effectiveness of nursing practices.
• Builds strong relationships and advocates for patients, families, and significant others to create personalized care plans tailored to individual needs.
• Utilizes the nursing process to formulate and execute care plans, gather assessment data, establish nursing diagnoses, identify expected outcomes, implement interventions, and evaluate results.
• Creates assessment and management strategies that consider the physical, functional, cultural, social, economic, developmental, spiritual, vocational, and leisure aspects of human responses to health issues.
• Demonstrates understanding of how actual or potential illnesses affect each patient’s overall status across various dimensions.
• Exhibits leadership by coordinating with patients, families, significant others, communities, and interprofessional team members to assess needs, set goals, plan interventions, provide care, and evaluate outcomes.
• Engages in effective communication with patients, families, significant others, and healthcare providers to ensure collaborative decision-making that is culturally sensitive, ethical, legal, holistic, informed, compassionate, and humane, while considering available resources.
• Educates patients, families, and significant others on health promotion, maintenance, and restoration strategies.
• Contributes to a positive work environment by mentoring and serving as a role model for nursing colleagues and students.
• Applies evidence-based practices and scientific knowledge in medical-surgical nursing to ensure care is tailored to the specific age and clinical needs of patients as outlined in the department’s Scope of Service.
• Maintains a constant state of alertness and safety in all activities.
• May conduct point-of-care testing in accordance with established policies and procedures.
• Performs additional duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Graduate from an accredited nursing program or equivalent educational background for licensing.

EXPERIENCE

• At least one year of experience as a registered nurse.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Regularly uses speech for oral communication.
• Constantly stands and walks.
• Frequently lifts, carries, and pushes/pulls objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Regularly sits, reaches, and engages in keyboard use/data entry.
• Frequently utilizes vision and depth perception for near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) distances, as well as color identification.
• Regularly uses smell to detect and recognize odors.
• Frequently employs hearing to receive oral communication and detect body sounds or alarms.
• Occasionally lifts, carries, and pushes/pulls objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Occasionally assists in lifting/moving patients.
• Occasionally bends, stoops, kneels, squats, twists, grips, and performs repetitive movements with feet/legs and hands/arms.
• Occasionally drives.
• Rarely crawls or runs.

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS

State of Work Location: Missouri

• Basic Life Support Healthcare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
• Registered Nurse (RN) - Missouri Division of Professional Registration
• Or
• Registered Nurse (RN) issued by a Compact State

Work Shift: Rotating Shift (United States of America)

Job Type: Employee

Department: Nursing Float

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 36

Benefits:

Our organization values its outstanding employees and offers a comprehensive benefits package tailored to meet their needs.

• Paid Parental Leave: Eligible team members receive one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE).

• Flexible Payment Options: Our voluntary benefit through DailyPay provides eligible hourly team members with instant access to their earned, unpaid base pay (fees may apply) before payday.

• Upfront Tuition Coverage: We offer upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members.

Our organization is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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