Registered Nurse - Regional Float - Medical Surgical

Job Description

Job Description

More than just a job, it’s a vocation.

Location: MO-SSM Health Mission Hill

Employment Type:

Regular

Position Overview:

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

Key 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 an 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 the interprofessional team 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 practices that promote, maintain, and restore health or enhance comfort.
• Encourages 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 required.

Qualifications:

Education:

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

Experience:

• Minimum of one year of registered nursing experience (Ministry Float) or two years of registered nursing experience (Regional Float).

Physical Demands:

• Regularly uses speech for oral communication.
• Constantly stands and walks.
• Frequently lifts, carries, and pushes/pulls objects weighing up to 25 lbs.
• Regularly sits, reaches, and engages in 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 differentiation.
• Regularly uses smell to identify odors.
• Frequently employs hearing to receive oral communication and detect body sounds or alarms.
• Occasionally lifts, carries, and pushes/pulls objects weighing between 25-50 lbs.
• Occasionally assists in 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.

Licensure 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 Schedule:

Night Shift (United States)

Job Type:

Employee

Department:

STL Regional Float Pool

Weekly Hours:

36

Benefits:

Our organization values our 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.

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.