Registered Nurse - Surgical Care

Highlights

Join a team where your work matters—every moment, every patient, every community. At SSM Health, you'll be empowered to grow, supported to thrive, and inspired to make a lasting impact.

Job Summary

Provides direct nursing care in accordance with established policies, procedures and protocols of the healthcare organization.

Primary Responsibilities

• Uses standards of medical‑surgical nursing practice to increase the quality of care and quality of life for the patient, family, and significant others by systematically evaluating the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice.
• Establishes effective relationships and serves as an advocate with the patient, family, and significant others to facilitate the development of a unique care plan.
• Applies the nursing process to develop and implement the plan of care, collect assessment data, determine nursing diagnoses, identify expected outcomes, implement interventions, and evaluate outcomes.
• Develops assessment and management strategies considering physical, functional, cultural, social, economic, developmental, spiritual, vocational, and leisure dimensions.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the impact of actual or potential illness on each patient’s various dimensions.
• Coordinates and collaborates with patients, families, communities, and inter‑professional team members in assessing needs, setting goals, planning interventions, providing care, and evaluating outcomes.
• Communicates effectively with patients, families, and other health‑care providers to support culturally sensitive, ethical, legal, holistic, informed, compassionate, and humane care within available resources.
• Educates patients, families, and significant others about measures that promote, maintain, restore health, or promote comfort.
• Fosters a healthy work environment by serving as a mentor and role model for nursing colleagues, students, and others.
• Applies evidence‑based practice and scientific knowledge to medical‑surgical nursing, ensuring care is age‑specific and meets clinical needs as described in the department’s Scope of Service.
• Works in a constant state of alertness and safety.
• May perform point‑of‑care testing according to policies and procedures.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education

Graduate of an accredited school of nursing or education equivalency for licensing.

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 lb.
• Frequent sitting, reaching, and keyboard use/data entry.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for near (≈20 in) and far (≈20 ft) distances; ability 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 hear alarms or malfunctioning machinery.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25‑50 lb.
• 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.

Required Licenses and Certifications

• Basic Life Support Health Care Provider (BLS HCP) – American Heart Association.
• Registered Professional Nurse (RN) – Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (or equivalent compact‑state RN license for Missouri, Oklahoma, or Wisconsin).

Schedule

Rotating shifts: two 12‑hour shifts per week and one 8‑hour shift per week; every third weekend required. Total scheduled weekly hours: 32.

Department

Surgical Care (1002000007).