Clinical Nurse - General Medicine II (Renal/Endocrine)

About the Role

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

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. Assess patient preferences and barriers to involvement in care, including their values, emotional, spiritual, cultural, and population-specific needs.

Minimum Requirements

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior pediatric nursing experience
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing

Additional Information

• Location: St. Louis Children's Hospital, One Children's Place, St. Louis, MO 63110
• Full-time; 36 hours per week
• Day/Night Rotation; 12hr shifts
• Weekend rotation
• Holiday rotation
• BJC Nursing Career Ladder: This tool empowers nurses to work at the top of their license and own their career progression. It promotes professional development, leadership, collaboration, education and service excellence, giving staff 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.

Benefits

• 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