Medical Surgical (RN) (FT) (Nights)

About the role

As part of BJC HealthCare, Parkland Health Center offers a unique combination of world-class medicine along with deep local roots and rich history. Parkland Health Center has two locations in St. Francois County, Missouri – a full-service acute care hospital in Farmington and a rural emergency hospital in Bonne Terre. The Farmington campus provides a full continuum of inpatient and medical-surgical and intensive care, obstetrics, emergency services, and a wide variety of outpatient services including oncology, infusion, wound care, and the Huckstep Heart and Lung Center. The Bonne Terre location is a Rural Emergency Hospital offering emergency services and outpatient services such as medical observation, lab, radiology, and sleep studies.

The Post Operative Department provides pre-op and post-op inpatient care to patients undergoing specialty surgical procedures, focusing on pre-op needs, post-op care, and treatment through discharge.

This is a safety-sensitive, full-time night position. The ability to work in a constant state of alertness and in a safe manner is an essential function of this job.

Responsibilities

• Promotes patient and family-centered care in a healing environment.
• Educates patients and their families on managing 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 the interprofessional team, patient, family, or caregiver, following established nursing care guidelines and standards.
• 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.

Requirements

• Nursing Diploma or Associate's Degree in Nursing (required).
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (preferred).
• No prior experience required.
• Current RN license (required).

Benefits

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