Job Description
Job Description
More than just a job, it's a vocation
Location: WI - Our Organization's St. Mary’s Hospital - Janesville
Employment Type: PRN2
Department: Women’s Services
Schedule: PRN, variable shifts primarily during nights from 7:00 PM to 7:00 AM. Availability for 24 hours of weekend coverage every four weeks is required.
Preferred qualifications include at least one year of experience in Labor and Delivery; candidates with ICU backgrounds will also be considered.
Position Overview:
This role involves overseeing activities, workflows, and nursing resources within women’s services.
Key Responsibilities:
- Gather and assess relevant health information to create and execute personalized care plans that include interventions aimed at achieving measurable outcomes for women and newborns, focusing on family-centered care.
- Facilitate care delivery that emphasizes woman-, newborn-, and family-centered approaches within the defined scope of practice. Utilize health education strategies to promote, maintain, or restore health in a safe environment.
- Monitor progress towards achieving expected outcomes in the context of family-centered care.
- Make ethical decisions and take actions on behalf of women, fetuses, and newborns, guided by a solid ethical framework. Ensure care practices align with principles of cultural diversity and inclusion.
- Engage in communication and collaboration with women, families, healthcare providers, and the community to deliver safe and holistic care.
- Act as a role model, change agent, consultant, and mentor for women, families, healthcare consumers, and fellow professionals. Stay informed and maintain competencies that reflect current evidence-based nursing practices.
- Utilize or integrate evidence to identify, assess, validate, and evaluate interprofessional knowledge and various approaches to care for women and newborns. Implement new measures to enhance the quality of nursing practice as needed.
- Reflect on personal nursing practice and contribute to the evaluation of peers based on current evidence, professional standards, and regulations. Consider resource factors related to safety, effectiveness, technological advancements, and fiscal responsibility when planning care.
- Ensure environmentally safe and healthy practices in the delivery of care to women, newborns, and families.
- Apply established evidence-based practices and scientific knowledge in women’s services nursing, ensuring care is tailored to the specific needs of patients.
- Maintain a constant state of alertness and safety while performing duties.
- Carry out additional responsibilities as assigned.
Education:
- Graduate from an accredited nursing school or equivalent educational background for licensing.
Experience:
- No prior experience is required.
Physical Demands:
- Regularly communicate verbally to share information.
- Consistently stand and walk.
- Frequently lift, carry, push, or pull objects weighing between 0-25 lbs.
- Engage in frequent sitting, reaching, and data entry.
- Utilize vision and depth perception for both near and far distances, as well as color differentiation.
- Employ smell to detect and recognize odors.
- Use hearing to receive verbal communication and identify body sounds or alarms.
- Occasionally lift or move objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
- Occasionally assist in lifting or moving patients.
- Occasionally bend, stoop, kneel, squat, twist, grip, and perform repetitive movements with legs and arms.
- Occasionally drive.
- Rarely crawl or run.
Required Licenses and Certifications:
State of Work Location: Illinois
- Basic Life Support Healthcare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
- Registered Professional Nurse (RN) - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR)
- Advanced Life Support (ALS) - American Heart Association (AHA) or
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) - American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) or
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) - American Heart Association (AHA) or
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Essentials - American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
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 Compact State
- Advanced Life Support (ALS) - American Heart Association (AHA) or
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) - American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) or
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) - American Heart Association (AHA) or
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Essentials - American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
State of Work Location: Oklahoma
- Basic Life Support Healthcare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
- Registered Nurse (RN) issued by Compact State or
- Registered Nurse (RN) - Oklahoma Board of Nursing (OBN)
- Advanced Life Support (ALS) - American Heart Association (AHA) or
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) - American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) or
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) - American Heart Association (AHA) or
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Essentials - American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
State of Work Location: Wisconsin
- Basic Life Support Healthcare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
- Registered Nurse (RN) issued by Compact State or
- Registered Nurse (RN) - Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services
- Advanced Life Support (ALS) - American Heart Association (AHA) or
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) - American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) or
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) - American Heart Association (AHA) or
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Essentials - American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
Work Shift: PRN / Per Diem Shift (United States of America)
Job Type: Employee
Department: Maternal/Child Services
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 0
Benefits:
Our organization values its outstanding employees and provides 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 allows eligible hourly team members to access their earned, unpaid base pay instantly (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.