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RN-Women's Services

Employer
Ssm Health
Location
Mount Vernon, Illinois
Closing date
Aug 2, 2021

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Discipline
Registered Nurse (RN)
Specialty
Women's Health / Services
Position Type
Nurse
Hours
Full Time
Work Setting
Hospital / Medical Center
At SSM Health, we know the healing power of presence begins with compassionate employees like you.

At SSM Health Good Samaritan - Mt Vernon, we have a Full-Time RN opening on our Women's Services Unit. This position is scheduled for 36 hours per week as a day shift.

Our RNs come from a diverse set of backgrounds, making SSM Health a great place both to share your own knowledge and, more broadly, to learn from your peers.

In return, you can expect a work environment where:

  • Employeesfeel valued, respected and free to express themselves;
  • Each employee finds meaning in work, leveraging skills and talents toward a greater purpose;
  • Teamwork and collaboration are encouraged, while management is supportive.


If you listen and respond with great care

Then wed love to learn more!Please fill out your application today.

Join a network ofemployeesjust as kind and powerful as you.
Manages women's services activities, workflow and nursing resources.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Collects and analyzes pertinent health data to develop and implement an individualized plan of care that includes interventions and alternatives to attain expected, measurable outcomes for women and newborns in the context of woman, newborn, and family-centered care.
  • Coordinates care delivery to promote woman-, newborn-, and family-centered care within their scope of practice. Employs health teaching strategies that promote, maintain, or restore health within the context of a safe environment for woman, newborn, family-centered care.
  • Evaluates the progress toward attainment of expected outcomes in the context of woman, newborn, and family-centered care.
  • Determines decisions and actions on behalf of women, fetuses, and newborns in an ethical manner and guided by a sound framework for ethical decision-making. Practices in a manner that is congruent with cultural diversity and inclusion principles when caring for women, newborns, and families.
  • Communicates and collaborates with women, families, health care providers, and the community in providing safe and holistic care.
  • Serves as a role model, change agent, consultant, and mentor to women, families, healthcare consumers, and other health care professionals. Acquires and maintains knowledge and competencies that reflect current evidence-based nursing practice for women, newborns, and families.
  • Generates or integrates evidence to identify, examine, validate, and evaluate interprofessionalknowledge, theories, and varied approaches in providing care to women and newborns. Practices, evaluates, and, if indicated, implements new measures to improve the quality of nursing practice for women and newborns.
  • Evaluates their own nursing practice and participates in the evaluation of others in relation to current evidence-based consumer care information, professional practice standards and guidelines, statutes, rules and regulations. Considers resource factors related to safety, effectiveness, technological advances, and fiscal responsibility when planning and delivering care to women and newborns.
  • Practices in an environmentally safe and healthy manner when planning and delivering care to women, newborns, and families.
  • Applies the existing body of evidence-based practice and scientific knowledge in health care to women's services nursing practice, ensuring that nursing care is delivered based on patients age-specific needs and clinical needs as described in the departments Scope of Service.
  • Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.


EDUCATION
  • Graduate of accredited school of nursing


EXPERIENCE
  • No experience required


PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
  • 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) and 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, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
  • Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
  • Occasional lifting/moving of patients.
  • Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting, gripping and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
  • Occasional driving.
  • Rare crawling and running.

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