Job Description
Job Description
More than just a job, it's a vocation
Location: Our Healthcare Facility - Jefferson City
Employment Type: Regular
Shift Availability: Night Shifts
Benefits Overview: We offer a competitive and affordable health insurance package that includes:
- Daily pay options!
- Up to $5,250 in annual tuition reimbursement
- Paid maternity and paternity leave
- Support for adoption
- Diverse health insurance plans and wellness initiatives
- Retirement plans with employer matching
- Short and long-term disability coverage
- Employee assistance programs (EAP)
Position Overview: This role involves delivering direct nursing care in alignment with the established policies, procedures, and protocols of our healthcare organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Apply medical-surgical nursing standards to enhance patient care and quality of life by systematically assessing the effectiveness of nursing practices.
- Build strong relationships and advocate for patients and their families to create personalized care plans.
- Utilize the nursing process to formulate and execute care plans, gather assessment data, establish nursing diagnoses, identify expected outcomes, implement interventions, and evaluate results.
- Design assessment and management strategies considering various dimensions of human responses to health issues.
- Demonstrate understanding of how illnesses affect patients' physical, functional, cultural, social, economic, developmental, spiritual, vocational, and leisure aspects.
- Exhibit leadership by collaborating with patients, families, communities, and interdisciplinary teams to assess needs, set goals, plan interventions, provide care, and evaluate outcomes.
- Engage in effective communication with patients, families, and healthcare providers to ensure culturally sensitive, ethical, and compassionate care within available resources.
- Educate patients and families on health promotion, maintenance, and comfort measures.
- Encourage a positive work environment by mentoring and serving as a role model for nursing colleagues and students.
- Implement evidence-based practices in medical-surgical nursing to ensure care aligns with patients' age-specific and clinical needs.
- Maintain a state of alertness and safety in all activities.
- May conduct point-of-care testing as per established guidelines.
- Perform additional duties as assigned.
Educational Requirements:
- Graduate from an accredited nursing program or equivalent educational background for licensing.
Experience:
- No prior experience necessary.
Physical Demands:
- Regularly communicate verbally to convey information.
- Frequent standing and walking required.
- Occasional lifting, carrying, and pushing/pulling objects weighing between 0-25 lbs.
- Regular sitting, reaching, and data entry tasks.
- Frequent visual acuity for near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) distances, including color differentiation.
- Regularly use olfactory senses to detect odors.
- Frequently utilize hearing to receive verbal communication and identify sounds such as alarms.
- Occasional lifting of objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
- Occasional patient handling.
- Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting, gripping, and repetitive movements of feet/legs and hands/arms.
- Occasional driving may be required.
- Rarely involves crawling or running.
Licensure and Certifications Required:
For Illinois:
- Basic Life Support Healthcare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
- Registered Professional Nurse (RN) - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR)
For 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
For 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)
For 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
Work Schedule: Night Shift (United States)
Job Type: Employee
Department: East ICU
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 36
Additional Benefits:
We recognize the value of our outstanding employees by providing a comprehensive benefits package tailored to their needs.
- Paid Parental Leave: Eligible team members receive one week of paid leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE).
- Flexible Payment Options: Our voluntary benefit through DailyPay allows eligible hourly employees 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.
We are an equal opportunity employer and 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.