Registered Nurse; RN - Same Day Surgery

Sign on Bonus

Up to $20,000 sign‑on bonus.

USD $30.23/hour – $48.37/hour.

Manages, coordinates, and performs nursing care with compassion for an assigned group of patients and their families, incorporating preventative measures.

Nursing goal: educate and restore the patient to an optimal level of wellness as defined by the patient and their families, incorporating preventative measures.

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Benefits - Memorial HR.

• Graduate of an accredited school of professional nursing.
• Current registration or eligibility for licensure with the State of Illinois for practice as a professional nurse.
• Must obtain CPR and BLS certifications within 45 days of hire.
• ACLS and PALS required within 6 months of hire/transfer.

• Clinical judgement: clinical reasoning, decision‑making, critical thinking, and a global grasp of the situation, coupled with nursing skills acquired through formal and informal experiential knowledge and evidence‑based guidelines.
  • Demonstrates the ability to assess the full scope of patient needs, using the nursing process continuously.
  • Utilizes past nursing experience to anticipate problems while seeking multi‑disciplinary collaboration with comfort when necessary.
  • Recognizes patterns and trends that may predict the direction of illness.
• Caring practices: nursing activity that creates a compassionate, supportive, and therapeutic environment for patients/families and staff; representing the concerns of the patient/family and nursing staff; serving as a moral agent in identifying and helping to resolve ethical and clinical concerns within and outside the clinical setting.
  • Promotes safety throughout patient’s and family’s transitions along the healthcare continuum.
  • Actively anticipates and monitors patient and family changes, responds appropriately.
  • Effectively resolves patient complaints.
  • Engages all patients in a personalized, compassionate manner.
• Collaboration/systems thinking: working with others (patients, families, healthcare providers) in a way that promotes/encourages each person’s contribution toward achieving optimal/realistic patient/family goals; involves intra‑ and inter‑disciplinary work with colleagues and community.
  • Consults and coordinates with team members to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care plans.
  • Actively utilizes evidence‑based practice and customer service data to improve caring practices.
  • Effectively plans and communicates patient care plans.
  • Facilitates active involvement of others in team meetings regarding patient care and/or practice issues.
  • Seeks out opportunities to be taught, coached, and mentored.
  • Recruits diverse resources when appropriate to optimize patient outcomes.
  • Serves as a resource to department and patient/family.
• Response to diversity: sensitivity to recognize, appreciate and incorporate differences into the provision of care; differences may include cultural, personality, spiritual, gender, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, age, values.
  • Integrates cultural differences into patient/family care; incorporates appropriate alternative therapies.
  • Tailors healthcare culture to meet diverse needs and strengths of each patient/family.
• Facilitation of learning: ability to facilitate learning for patients/families, nursing staff, other members of the healthcare team, and community.
  • Develops and modifies patient/family education programs throughout delivery of care, collaborating and incorporating all healthcare providers’ and educational plans.
  • Provides individualized care.
  • Evaluates patient’s understanding by observing behavior changes throughout plan of care.
  • Sets patient‑driven goals for education.
  • Work toward achieving Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree.
• Clinical inquiry (innovator/evaluator): ongoing process of questioning and evaluating practice and providing informed practice; creating practice changes through research utilization and experimental learning.
  • Adapts standards of care to serve particular patient populations.
  • Seeks advice to improve patient care.
  • Evaluates current practices based on patient responses, analysis of literature, research, and education.
  • Incorporates evidence‑based practice into care delivery.
  • Actively pursues continuing educational opportunities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.