Registered Nurse - Medical Surgical

About Ripon Community Hospital

Ripon Community Hospital is a brand‑new facility, built in 2014. The Med‑Surg Department has 13 beds and is connected to a 3‑bed ICU. We offer a 4:1 patient‑to‑nurse ratio on days and a 5:1 ratio on nights. A CNA staffs all shifts, and we have 24/7 security to keep patients and employees safe. Our small unit allows staff to build strong relationships with patients and to start and grow their careers in a supportive environment.

Our nurses work 12‑hour shifts and every third weekend. The schedule is as follows:

• Week 1 – Tuesday
• Week 2 – Thursday, Saturday
• Week 3 – Thursday
• Week 4 – Tuesday, Thursday
• Week 5 – Saturday
• Week 6 – Wednesday, Thursday

Provides direct nursing care in accordance with established policies, procedures, and protocols of the healthcare organization.

• Uses standards of medical‑surgical nursing practice to increase quality of care and quality of life for the patient, family, and significant others by systematically evaluating the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice.
• Establishes effective relationships and serves as an advocate with the patient, family, and significant others to facilitate the development of the care plan unique to the patient’s care needs.
• Uses 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.
• Develops assessment and management strategies based on a consideration of the physical, functional, cultural, social, economic, developmental, spiritual, vocational, and leisure dimensions of human responses to actual and potential health problems.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the impact of actual or potential illness and each patient’s physical, functional, cultural, social, economic, developmental, spiritual, vocational, and leisure status.
• Utilizes leadership skills by coordinating and collaborating with the patient, family, significant others, communities, and members of the inter‑professional team to assess needs, set goals, plan interventions, provide care, and evaluate outcomes.
• Utilizes effective communication to participate with the patient, family, significant others, and other health care 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.
• Educates the patient, family, and significant others about measures that promote, maintain, and restore health or promote comfort.
• Fosters a healthy work environment within the practice setting and profession by serving as a mentor and role model for nursing colleagues, students, and others.
• Applies the existing body of evidence‑based practice and scientific knowledge in health care to medical‑surgical nursing practice, ensuring that nursing care is delivered based on the patient’s age‑specific needs and clinical needs as described in the department’s Scope of Service.
• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner. May perform point‑of‑care testing according to policies and procedures. Performs other duties as assigned.

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

No experience required.

• 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) 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 or malfunctioning machinery.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25–50 lbs.
• Occasional moving of patients.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting,…