Registered Nurse

New Employee Retention Bonus: $2,500.00 retention bonus available! (New Employee defined as someone who has not been employed with Rogers for more than six months)

• Full‑time, 40 hours per week
• Monday‑Friday (no holidays, no "on‑call" requirements)
• 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
• Supports both Manitowoc, WI and Sheboygan, WI locations based on patient needs and census.

The registered nurse (RN, RN II, RN III) performs professional nursing activities in the care of patients so they may achieve or regain, and then maintain, maximum physical, emotional or social functions. Role functions are governed by the Nurse Practice Act, the Administrative Code (in the state of employment), as well as professional standards for nursing practice and corresponding policies and procedures of Rogers Memorial Hospital.

The registered nurse seeks consultation with other members of the health team as the patient’s condition and treatment goals warrant. He/She, in conjunction with the Patient Accounts department, provides patient information to ensure compliance with federal and state statutes.

• Collect, record, and analyze pertinent data for admission assessment per Hospital policy, including:
• Patient strengths and limitations that can be addressed in reaching health goals.
• Cultural, spiritual, and ethnic factors that may impact on patient’s course of treatment.
• Patient needs that are to be addressed at discharge.
• Medical/physical status.
• History of medication compliance, reactions, and current schedule.
• Age‑specific data regarding the patient’s individual needs.

• Involve patient’s support systems (family, friends) in assessment and documentation:
• Observe and document the patient’s interaction with family and friends as it is pertinent to the patient’s treatment.
• Obtain assessment data from support systems, when appropriate, regarding the patient’s history and individual needs.

• Initiate and update treatment plan and documentation as required:
• Participate in planning and modifying the patient’s plan of care.
• Evaluate data obtained by others by reviewing patient’s treatment plan and multi-disciplinary assessment for assigned patients.
• Participate in care conferences (staffings) and represent the nursing care component of the treatment plan to others at the staffing.
• Develop and interpret plan of care with the patient/family, updating it as indicated.
• Write clear, concise, and obtainable treatment goals on the treatment plan for each problem.
• Review the treatment plan as goals are achieved, changed, or updated.

• On an ongoing basis, identify, interpret, and document information collected in nursing interview, observation, physical assessment, and diagnostic data, and confer with other health care professionals, as appropriate:
• Review current lab data and follow up with doctor.
• Evaluate potential for falls and initiate fall precautions, as indicated.
• Identify potential for self‑abuse, suicidality and/or assaultive behavior.
• Develop age‑appropriate interventions for the patient’s plan of care.
• Assess changes in patient status and document interventions accordingly.

• Demonstrate safe and correct medication administration by:
• Accuracy in medication administration: right patient, right medication, right dose, right time, and right route.
• Maintaining current knowledge of the medication’s purpose and effects for each patient, as demonstrated by correct documentation of medication, and observations about responses to medication.
• Accurately transcribing and implementing physician medication orders.
• Maintaining a continual awareness of monitoring the expected and unexpected medication efforts including adverse drug reactions, drug/drug or drug/food interactions, or other unexpected consequences of the medication.
• Regularly conducting and documenting patient education about medications.
• Maintaining current knowledge about new pharmacologic products, including new medications or medications with new uses/therapeutic action.

• Implement standard care plans:
• Identify problems with unit systems, communication patterns, and unit resources…