Healthcare Professional

7 days ago


St Louis, Missouri, United States SSM Health Full time

**About SSM Health**

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We are a Catholic, not-for-profit health system dedicated to serving the communities of Missouri, Illinois and Oklahoma. Our mission is to continue Christ's healing love by providing high-quality healthcare services that care for body, mind and spirit.

 

**Salary:** $30.96 per hour

 

**Job Description: Medical-Surgical Nurse**

The medical-surgical nurse provides direct nursing care in accordance with established policies, procedures, and protocols of the healthcare organization. This includes using standards of medical-surgical nursing practice to increase the quality of care and quality of life for patients, families, and significant others. The nurse will establish effective relationships and serve as an advocate with patients, families, and significant others to facilitate the development of the care plan unique to each patient's care needs.

 

**Responsibilities and Requirements**

1. Use the nursing process to develop and implement the plan of care, collect assessment data for each patient, determine appropriate nursing diagnoses, identify expected patient outcomes, determine the plan of care, implement interventions, and evaluate patient outcomes.

2. Develop assessment and management strategies based on consideration of the physical, functional, cultural, social, economic, developmental, spiritual, vocational, and leisure dimensions of human responses to actual and potential health problems.

3. Demonstrate knowledge of the impact of actual or potential illness and each patient's physical, functional, cultural, social, economic, developmental, spiritual, vocational, and leisure status.

4. Utilize leadership skills by coordinating and collaborating with patients, families, significant others, communities, and members of the inter-professional team in assessing needs, setting goals, planning interventions, providing care, and evaluating outcomes.

5. Utilize effective communication to participate with patients, families, significant others, and other healthcare providers in collaborative decision making that reflects the understanding that care should be culturally sensitive, ethical, legal, holistic, informed, compassionate, and humane, and within the boundaries of available economic resources.

6. Educate patients, families, and significant others about measures that promote, maintain, and restore health or promote comfort.

7. Foster a healthy work environment within the practice setting and profession by serving as a mentor and role model for nursing colleagues, students, and others.

8. Apply the existing body of evidence-based practice and scientific knowledge in healthcare to medical-surgical nursing practice, ensuring that nursing care is delivered based on patients' age-specific needs and clinical needs as described in the department's Scope of Service.

9. Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.

10. May perform point of care testing according to policies and procedures.

 

**Education and Experience**

Graduate of accredited school of nursing or education equivalency for licensing.

No experience required.

 

**Physical Requirements**

Constant use of speech to share information through oral communication.

Constant standing and walking.

Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.

Frequent sitting, reaching, and keyboard use/data entry.

Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.

Frequent use of smell to detect/recognize odors.

Frequent use of hearing to receive oral communication, distinguish body sounds and/or hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.

Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.

Occasional lifting/moving of patients.

Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting, gripping, and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.

Occasional driving.

Rare crawling and running.

 

**Required Professional License and/or Certifications**

State of Work Location: Illinois

Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)

And Registered Professional Nurse (RN) - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR)

State of Work Location: Missouri

Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)

And Registered Nurse (RN) - Missouri Division of Professional Registration

Or Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State

State of Work Location: Oklahoma

Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)

And Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State

Or Registered Nurse (RN) - Oklahoma Board of Nursing (OBN)

State of Work Location: Wisconsin

Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)

And Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State

Or Registered Nurse (RN) - Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services

 

**Work Shift:** Day Shift (United States of America)

 

**Job Type:** Employee

 

**Department:** Nursing Administration

 

**Scheduled Weekly Hours:** 36

 

SSM Health is an equal opportunity employer. SSM Health does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

 

**Benefits:**

We value our exceptional employees by offering a comprehensive benefits package to fit their needs.

Paid Parental Leave: we offer eligible team members one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE).

Flexible Payment Options:

Our voluntary benefit offered through DailyPay offers eligible hourly team members instant access to their earned, unpaid base pay (fees may apply) before payday.

Upfront Tuition Coverage:

We provide upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members.



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