Registered Nurse – Abdominal Transplant – Nights

Job Title:

Registered Nurse

Employee Type: Regular

Location: MO-SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital 1201 Grand

Job Highlights: Ask your recruiter about a sign-on bonus up to $30,000!

The Registered Nurse is a professional practitioner who assesses, manages, directs, and provides nursing care activities during the patient's hospital stay and coordinates planning with other disciplines utilizing a patient/customer driven approach.

• Performs comprehensive nursing assessment and reassessment.
• Performs age-appropriate admission or transfer assessment and obtains input from family or guardian when appropriate.
• Accurately documents findings in the medical record.
• Performs assessment of post-op or post-invasive procedure patients.
• Assesses and documents education and discharge needs of patient and family on admission and throughout hospitalization.
• Provides patient reassessment and documents pertinent observations according to the patient plan of care, changes in condition, status or diagnosis, response to care, procedures, etc., and standards of care.
• Establishes, coordinates and evaluates a plan of care based on assessment data, patient diagnosis, lab data, tests, procedures, physician orders, protocols, and standards of care.
• Identifies short- and long-term goals based on patient care needs.
• Formulates nursing interventions to achieve desired patient outcomes.
• Incorporates disease-specific evidence-based practice into nursing care and documentation.
• Provides and documents nursing interventions based on assessed patient needs, plan of care, and changes in patient status.
• Collaborates with health team members to coordinate daily plan of care for assigned patients.
• Provides, coordinates and communicates patient care, including accurate handoff communication reports.
• Administers medications accurately and documents them according to policies.
• Monitors and documents accurate IV fluids and parenteral nutrition.
• Completes referrals as indicated by assessment data.
• Requests consultation for special needs, equipment or information for patient or family.
• Provides patient and family education and discharge planning per documentation guidelines and protocols.
• Clarifies physician orders as warranted and acknowledges and implements them accurately and timely.
• Assists physician with procedures or delegates to care partner as appropriate.
• Documents “Readback” for all telephone or verbal orders and takes such orders only in emergency situations.
• Recognizes changes in patient condition and takes appropriate nursing actions.
• Involves family or guardian when providing care or decision-making is appropriate.
• Recognizes risks for the patient and takes appropriate action.
• Incorporates infection control practices daily.
• Documents and/or communicates nursing care and changes in patient condition.
• Evaluates effectiveness of care and nursing interventions, education, and updates the plan of care as needed.
• Recognizes significant changes in patient clinical parameters and reports immediately to physician or others as indicated.
• Identifies problems, gathers data, suggests solutions, and works toward problem resolution.
• Reports variations from care or treatment per policy and procedure.
• Provides specialized care to high-risk patients.
• Restraint care: initiates, evaluates, and applies restraints as approved; monitors patient response; provides specified care; consults peers; documents use thoroughly.
• Pain management: assesses presence of pain, incorporates beliefs, implements prevention-focused techniques, and includes family in plan.
• Abuse assessment: recognizes signs, reports to appropriate parties, supports patient safety.
• Adheres to quality, performance, policies, procedures, and protocols in all practice.
• Participates in learning experiences, demonstrates technical and cognitive skills, stays current with hospital information and policies, attends staff meetings, and engages in committees.
• Provides supervision, teaching, and orientation of new staff or students.
• Maintains safety and infection control guidelines, including standard precautions, hand hygiene, safe patient handling.
• Maintains a clutter-free, clean, therapeutic environment.
• Respects dress code, reports risk concerns.
• Completes mandatory annual requirements, including licenses and certifications.
• Delivers service excellence: prompt, respectful, courteous, meets patient and family needs, collaborates, communicates, offers constructive feedback, manages resources effectively, upholds hospital principles.
• Participates in performance improvement activities, develops unit-based improvement plans, leads teams when requested, and contributes to nursing research.
• Provides age-appropriate care tailored to adult or geriatric patients.
• Applies cost-effective practices, documents supplies, and manages resources to reduce waste.

Minimum Education: Licensed to work as an RN in the state of Missouri.

Working Conditions: May be exposed to blood borne diseases, unpleasant elements,…