More than just a job, it’s a vocation.
Location: WI - SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital - Madison
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 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 inter-professional 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 economic resources.
- Educates patients, families, and significant others on health promotion, maintenance, and restoration strategies.
- 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 age-appropriate and meets clinical needs as outlined in the department’s Scope of Service.
- Maintains a state of alertness and safety at all times.
- May conduct point-of-care testing in accordance with established policies and procedures.
- Performs additional duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
Education:
- Graduate from an accredited nursing school or equivalent educational background for licensing.
Experience:
- No prior experience is necessary.
Physical Demands:
- Regularly uses speech for oral communication.
- Constantly stands and walks.
- Frequently lifts, carries, and pushes/pulls objects weighing between 0-25 lbs.
- Regularly sits, reaches, and uses a keyboard for 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 uses 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 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.
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 Schedule: Night Shift (United States)
Job Type: Employee
Department: Surgical Care (4SW)
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 32
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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