PCU RN-Progressive Care Unit Registered Nurse

Overview

At Mercy One, health care is more than just a doctor’s visit or a place to go when you’re in need of medical attention. Our Mission is based on improving the health of our communities – that means not only when you are sick but keeping you well.

Mercy One Clinton Medical Center is a Catholic, not-for-profit, full-service community health system serving counties in eastern Iowa and western Illinois. With approximately 50,000 patient admissions every year, Mercy One Clinton operates 249 licensed beds. In addition to a wide range of traditional hospital services, Mercy One Clinton provides a continuum of care with specialized services in wound care, radiation oncology, dialysis, imaging, sleep disorders, therapy services, and skilled care.

Mercy One Clinton has a staff of more than 800 employees, making it one of the community’s largest employers.

Join the Mercy One Family! We are looking to hire a Registered Nurse!

• As a Registered Nurse at Mercy One, you will provide and direct safe, effective, and culturally competent care for patients with acute medical and surgical conditions.
• Through evidence-based practice, utilize critical thinking to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate outcome-based care.
• The Acute Care RN manages a diverse patient population with varying levels of acuity, including post-operative, medical, telemetry, and neurologic patients.
• Supervises and coordinates care provided by LPNs, Patient Care Assistants, and other nursing team members.
• Facilitates communication with physicians, patients and families, and interdisciplinary team members.
• Adheres to Mercy One’s performance expectations and upholds the Mission, Vision, and Values of Mercy One.

• Conducts an initial assessment to gather data.
• Makes an initial assessment of new admissions within 30 minutes of the patient’s arrival to the unit.
• Completes all areas of the admission assessment database within 24 hours of admission.
• Identifies patient problems and develops them into an outcome/goal-based plan of care.
• Initiates the patient problem list and incorporates relevant medical history into the plan of care.
• Analyzes and interprets the assessment data to identify desired patient outcomes/goals.
• Determines nursing interventions to achieve those outcomes/goals.
• Prioritizes patient care needs/activities.
• Identifies and makes appropriate referrals (e.g., Patient/Family Services, Nutritional Services, Spiritual Care, Diabetic Educator) and education needs.
• Collaborates with other health care disciplines to plan interventions/patient outcomes/goals.
• Implements the outcome/goal-based plan of care.
• Assigns and coordinates patient care incorporating patient acuity and the skills, knowledge and abilities of the team members.
• Organizes and prioritizes care for the patients within the team.
• Delegates tasks appropriately to other team members.
• Implements the plan of care including procedures, treatments, physician orders, nursing orders, education plan and medications.
• Coordinates implementation of plan of care with the Case Manager, Social Worker and other health care disciplines.
• Assists to decrease the patient’s length of stay by helping the patient and family identify and secure appropriate services to satisfy health-related needs upon discharge.
• Uses nursing judgment to determine the appropriate frequency and components of reassessment.
• Reassesses at regular intervals to determine patient response(s) to interventions (minimum RN reassessment every 24 hours).
• Focuses ongoing reassessment on actual and potential problems/needs of the patient including education and discharge needs.
• Participates in developing the discharge plan.
• Documents discharge instructions for patient and/or significant other and/or other care provider.
• Evaluates patient progress and revises the outcome/goal-based plan as needed.
• Evaluates patient response(s) to interventions.
• Reviews/modifies/revises the outcome-based plan of care based on ongoing reassessments.
• Updates the problem list and outcomes/goals.
• Communicates relevant clinical information to the team to optimize patient outcomes/goals.
• Communicates relevant clinical information to physicians…