Clinical Nurse Med Surg Unit Nights

Program Overview

The BJC RN Career Ladder differentiates BJC as the place for nurses to work in the greater St. Louis area. This tool empowers nurses to work at the top of their license and own their career progression, promoting professional development, leadership, collaboration, education and service excellence. It offers nurses the opportunity to continue caring for patients while advancing to the next step in their career.

Moves to higher ladder levels result in a percentage increase of current pay that aligns with the new job description.

• Full time
• Night Shift
• 16 Med Surg Unit
• Benefits Eligible
• Sign on Bonus Eligible External

Opened in 2007, Progress West Hospital is BJC Health Care's newest hospital in St. Charles County, featuring modern private rooms. The hospital offers 24‑hour emergency services, surgical services, endoscopy, a cardiac catheterization lab, medical/surgical inpatient services, diagnostic imaging, lab services, and an Advanced Wound Center. It recently expanded its Childbirth Center to include enhanced services for at-risk mothers and babies, with a newborn ICU.

Progress West Hospital is a Certified Level II Stroke Center and houses offices for specialists in primary care, cardiology, obstetrics, pediatrics, and orthopedics.

Provides direct patient care activities including assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation within the guidelines of the standards of nursing care.

• Promotes patient and family centered care in a healing environment.
• Educates patients and families on illness or injury management, including post‑treatment home care and medication administration.
• Participates in activities that promote patient safety, quality and regulatory compliance.
• Participates in professional development.
• Develops, implements, and documents individual plans of care with defined goals in collaboration with interprofessional team members and patients, families or caregivers.
• Proactively plans and ensures communication of the plan of care across the continuum of care.
• Uses critical nursing skills to assess and evaluate physical, psychosocial, and emotional needs according to standards of care.
• Assesses patient preferences and barriers to involvement in care, including values, emotional, spiritual, cultural, and population‑specific needs.
• Maintains safety‑sensitive position with constant state of alertness.

• Education:
  
  Nursing Diploma/Associate's
  - Nursing
• Experience:
  
  No experience required
• Supervisor
  
  Experience:
  
  No experience required
• Licenses &
  
  Certifications:
  
  RN

• Education:
  
  Bachelor's Degree
  - Nursing

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date.
• Disability insurance paid for by BJC.
• Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution.
• 401(k) plan with BJC match.
• Tuition Assistance available on first day.
• BJC Institute for Learning and Development.
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time.
• Adoption assistance.

Equal Opportunity Employer.