Registered Nurse - Full-time / Part-time

Overview

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At Mercy, you'll feel our supportive community every step of your day, especially the tough ones. We're a team and love working that way. We have opportunities for nurses who are inspired to pioneer new models of care and want to transform the healthcare experience. Work with advanced technology and innovative procedures. Be state of the art, and never stop exploring. We're expanding to help our communities grow, offering an exceptional opportunity to join our team.

The RN utilizes the nursing process to provide patient care. Maintains professional accountability for provision of patient care. Evaluates the overall effectiveness of care provided by other direct care givers. Coordinates the patient care in conjunction with other departments. Maintains patient rights and confidentiality of patient information.

Position Qualifications:

Experience and Education Requirements:

* Education: Current RN license.

* Licensure: Meets the criteria to be eligible for licensure in state of Missouri or currently licensed in the state of Missouri.

* Certifications: BLS, ACLS, PALS

Minimum skills, knowledge and ability requirements:

Safety/Risk Management:1. Complies with JCAHO patient safety goals. Adheres to OSHA standards regarding appropriate safety regulations and procedures.2. Utilizes safe techniques for patient mobility.3. Complies with medication administration as per hospital policies and procedures. Barcode compliance greater than 95%.4. Performs patient hand offs utilizing patient safety tools (SBAR, Report at Bedside, Hourly Rounding, etc.) both from shift-to-shift and interdepartmentally5. Attends all mandatory in-services and completes all mandatory MyEducation assignments within the given time frame.6. Participates in process improvement activities such as data collection, in-services, and meeting as appropriate (Chart audits). 7. Maintains hospital property and the hospital environment in a safe, clean and intact condition per Mercy policy and procedure.Coordination of Services:1. Formulates plan of care upon admissin to the unit.2. Assures that the plan of care includes identified problems, and/or nursing diagnosis, nursing interventions, and goals/outcomes with target dates. Involves patient and/or significant others in decisions regarding care.3. Assures that the plan of care is based on patient's current problems, congruent with the medical plan of care, and incorporates preventive, therapeutic, rehabilitative, palliative, and comfort nursing interventions.4. Prioritizes care delivery according to the patients' needs and unit activities.5. Collaborates with other health care providers to revise the plan of care, including discharge planning.6. Demonstrates the ability to obtain and interpret information in terms understandable to the population served.7. Plans care based on knowledge of changes associated with the population served. 8. Evaluates patient/significant others responses to care and/or education; determines and documents progress towards achievement of outcomes every shift.9. Evaluates patient/significant others' understanding of information provided or skills taught.10. Evaluates the effectiveness of discharge plans for meeting the needs for continuing care.11. Actively participates in achieving unit's patient satisfaction goal.12. Coordinates care to effectively meet quality indicators.Primary Aspects:1. Initiates nursing assessment, initiates plan of care, reviews and releases orders.2. Completes assessments for each assigned patient according to policy and more frequently as indicated by the patient's clinical condition.3. Utilizes LPN's, Patient Care Associates/Technicians, and other appropriate health care workers in data gathering functions of the nursing assessment.4. Includes information obtained from the patient and/or significant others in the assessment.5. Documents clearly and concisely initial and ongoing assessment data about the patient in the permanent record.6. Assesses and appropriately documents the educational needs and learning abilities of the patient and/or significant others during the admission and subsequent assessments in the computerized care plan.7. Notifies patient's appropriate physician when changes in assessment occur.8. Provides professional nursing care to an assigned group of patients according to the prescribed plan of care. 9. Assists with and/or performs procedures including but not limited to the nursing unit skills checklist.10. Delegates tasks to LPN's and unlicensed health care providers according to their documented competencies.11. Demonstrates ability to provide care and information based upon physical, psycho/social, cultural, safety and other age-related factors for the adult/geriatric patients.12. Participates in at least 75% of staff meetings.13. Participates in Process Improvement activities such as data collection, in-services, and meetings as appropriate and required.14. Participates in a hospital committee, special project or in-service (i.e. preceptor to student or new co-worker) as requested.15. Uses current knowledge achieved through research, evidence based practice or educational activities to enhance or improve clinical practice or patient care.16. Establishes goals and objectives with each annual performance appraisal, and provides evidence for goal attainment from previous evaluation period.17. Completes Hospital and nursing competency of employment and annually within required time frame, submits to Supervisor.18. Maintains knowledge base required to provide professional standard of care.Communication Management:1. Creates a positive climate for communications.2. Maintains the confidentiality of patient, staff, and hospital information from written, verbal, electronic sources.3. Communication is timely, accurate, concise, complete, and appropriate.4. Utilizes constructive problem solving techniques to promote change and deal with issues. 5. Follow established channels for addressing issues, concerns, and problems.6. Documentation of the Nursing Process is completed according to organizational policies and procedures.7. Maintains relevant knowledge of hospital forms, and completes in a timely, accurate and complete manner i.e. quality improvement reports, patient care documentation forms, care plans, incident reports, etc.8. Demonstrates skilled use of all nursing documentation.9. Demonstrated knowledge of information disseminated in huddles.Technology:1. Performs unit specific computer functions.2. Maintains competency on unit specific patient care equipment (CPM machine, Alaris pump, fetal monitor, etc.)

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Getting respect doesn't come easy in healthcare. Modern Healthcare Magazine named us as a "top 100 places to work." We go out of our way to help people feel welcomed. We offer day-one comprehensive health, vision and dental coverage, PTO, and employer-matched retirement funds, even to part-time employees. We're proud to provide tuition reimbursement to help you grow and learn new skills.

What Makes a Good Match for Mercy

Compassion and professionalism go hand-in-hand with us. Having a positive outlook and a strong sense of advocacy is in perfect step with our mission and vision. We're also collaborative and are not afraid to do a little extra to deliver excellent care-that's just part of our commitment. If that sounds like a fit for you as well, we encourage you to apply.