RN - Post Surgical Unit

Overview

Something special starts here. You can’t define it, but you know it when you see it: the difference between an average life and the good life. When your cup is full – with joy, purpose and lifelong health – it shows. At LMH Health, we are all about healthy people, healthy communities and healthy futures, and that makes us your destination for an exceptional career.

From flexible, work-life harmony to competitive pay and great advancement potential, LMH Health offers opportunities for an exceptional career.

Join a team that cares about the community. Tuition reimbursement to support continuing education. Professional development and recognition. Excellent benefits. We’re looking for you.

Job Description

Schedule:

7p-7a, 3 days a week.

• Develop therapeutic relationships with patients and families promoting decision making based on the assessment of patient medical histories, symptoms, examinations, diagnosis, conditions and treatments.
• Communicate and collaborate concisely and continuously among clinical team, including physicians, both verbally and in documentation, focusing on patients identified problems and needs by implementing and monitoring patient care plans, as well as recording and communicating patient conditions as appropriate, to optimize their health outcomes.
• Assess and coordinate patient discharge planning needs with members of the healthcare team.
• Competently apply collaborative teamwork and leadership as a member of an inter-professional team to coordinate patient-centered care for quality patient and unit outcomes of care processes by utilizing information, resources and technology; provide patient-centered care and nursing processes including Patient/Family, Evidence Based Practices (EBP), safety and process improvement.
• Exemplify professionalism: apply lifelong learning; contribute to the science of nursing; participate in governance; share knowledge to expand the scale and scope of best practices with others; build the ethical, moral and regulatory base for best practices and processes of patient and unit care.
• Perform nursing care according to the population served on the unit as referenced in the Administrative, Scope of Services Policy.
• Perform other duties as assigned in line with current basic nursing scope.
• Regular and reliable attendance is an essential function of this position.

• Required:
  
  Associate degree in Nursing or diploma;
  Current Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers (BLS);
  Current Registered Nurse license to practice in Kansas. Certification in ACLS and PALS may affect BLS requirements based on department.
• Preferred:
  Bachelor’s degree in Nursing; ACLS within 6 months of hire (ED, ICU/2 East or other units).

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.