Registered Nurse

Job Description

Job Description

More than just a job, it's a vocation

Location: Our facility in Madison, WI

Worker Type: Regular

Position Overview:

Department: Short Stay

Schedule: 7:00 PM - 7:00 AM | 36 hours per week (full-time)

Facility Hours: Monday 6:00 AM - Saturday 7:00 PM. This role requires working every third Friday from 7:00 PM to 7:00 AM.

Role Summary:

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

Key Responsibilities:

• Apply 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.
• Build strong relationships and advocate for patients, families, and significant others to create personalized care plans that address individual needs.
• Utilize the nursing process to formulate and execute care plans, gather assessment data, establish nursing diagnoses, identify expected outcomes, implement interventions, and evaluate results.
• Develop assessment and management strategies considering the physical, functional, cultural, social, economic, developmental, spiritual, vocational, and leisure aspects of human responses to health issues.
• Demonstrate understanding of how actual or potential illnesses affect each patient's overall status.
• Exhibit leadership by coordinating with patients, families, significant others, communities, and the inter-professional team to assess needs, set goals, plan interventions, provide care, and evaluate outcomes.
• Engage in effective communication with patients, families, significant others, and healthcare providers to ensure collaborative decision-making that is culturally sensitive, ethical, legal, holistic, compassionate, and within available resources.
• Educate patients, families, and significant others 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.
• Incorporate evidence-based practices and scientific knowledge into medical-surgical nursing to ensure care aligns with patients' age-specific and clinical needs as outlined in the department's Scope of Service.
• Maintain a state of alertness and safety while performing duties.
• May conduct point-of-care testing in accordance with established policies and procedures.
• Perform additional tasks as assigned.

Education Requirements:

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

Experience:

• No prior experience necessary.

Physical Requirements:

• Regularly use speech for oral communication.
• Consistently stand and walk.
• Frequently lift, carry, push, or pull objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Engage in frequent sitting, reaching, and data entry.
• Utilize vision for near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) distances, including color differentiation.
• Employ smell to recognize odors.
• Use hearing to receive oral communication and detect alarms or machinery issues.
• Occasionally lift, carry, push, or pull objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Occasionally assist in moving patients.
• Occasionally bend, stoop, kneel, squat, twist, grip, and perform repetitive movements with feet, legs, hands, and arms.
• Occasionally drive.
• Rarely crawl or run.

Required Licenses and Certifications:

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 Shift: Night Shift (United States)

Job Type: Employee

Department: Short Stay Unit

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 36

Benefits:

Our organization values its outstanding employees by providing a comprehensive benefits package tailored to 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.

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.