Renal/Telemetry Clinical Nurse (Nights)

About the role

Amazing Unit to Work on! Christian Hospital has been serving St. Louis and the surrounding metro areas since 1903. U.S. News & World Report ranks Christian Hospital No. 5 in St. Louis for overall clinical excellence and No. 9 in Missouri, placing it in the top 6% of hospitals statewide. The hospital is nationally ranked as “high performing” in geriatrics and in seven of 21 common procedures and conditions: heart attack, heart failure, kidney failure, diabetes, COPD, pneumonia, and stroke. Northwest HealthCare, six miles west of Christian Hospital, provides 24‑hour emergency care, a Sleep Disorders Center, and various outpatient diagnostic and imaging services. The 8th floor is a 44‑bed Renal/Telemetry unit with 24 semi‑private rooms, one private room with an adjacent dialysis suite (capacity for six patients), and two negative‑airflow rooms. Any semi‑private room can be converted to private for isolation or patient request. Patients on this unit are acutely ill with medical problems including renal failure, CHF, pneumonia, COPD, sepsis, dehydration, diabetes mellitus, MI, angioplasty, post‑cardiac catheterization, cardiac arrhythmias, direct admits, and post‑op surgical patients.

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.
• BJC has determined this is a safety‑sensitive position. The ability to work in a constant state of alertness and in a safe manner is an essential function of this job.

Requirements

• Education: Nursing Diploma/Associate's
• Experience: No Experience
• Supervisor Experience: No Experience
• Licenses & Certifications: RN
• Preferred Education: Bachelor's Degree
• Preferred Nursing Experience: (preferred)

Qualifications

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

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date
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