Acute Medicine Clinical Nurse - FT Days

About the role

Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University Medical Center is the largest hospital in Missouri and is ranked as one of the nation's top hospitals by U.S. News & World Report. The unit is part of the Acute Care Medicine department, which deals with a wide range of clinical issues including significant blood dyscrasias, advanced endocrine pathology, heart and renal failure, gastrointestinal conditions, infectious diseases, asthma, and more.

Responsibilities

• Promotes patient and family centered care in a healing environment.
• Educates patients and their families on how to manage their illness or injury, including post-treatment home care needs 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 other members of the interprofessional team and patient, family or caregiver in accordance with the established guidelines and standards of nursing care.
• 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 their values, emotional, spiritual, cultural, and population-specific needs.

Requirements

• No experience required.
• Preferred qualifications include a bachelor's degree in nursing.

Qualifications

• Current Registered Nurse (RN) license.

Skills

Strong critical thinking and assessment skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team are essential.

Benefits

Includes a sign-on bonus, comprehensive benefits package, career ladder opportunities, disability insurance, health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts, paid time off, adoption assistance, and tuition assistance.

Pay

Details of pay are not specified in the provided information.

Schedule

Details of the schedule are not specified in the provided information.