Registered Nurse ICU

CommonSpirit Health; Dodge City (KS); On-site; USD 44,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus

Relocation assistance

Job summary

St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, Kansas seeks a Registered Nurse for the Emergency Department. You will assess patients, collaborate with the care team, and ensure safety while applying the nursing process in a mission-driven environment.

The role requires active RN license in Kansas, BLS/ACLS, NIHSS, and 1 year ED experience. TNCC/TCAR within 1 year of hire is preferred. This unit emphasizes teamwork and family-centered care.

Qualifications

• Active and unencumbered RN License in state of employment.
• BLS and ACLS certifications required by AHA.
• NIHSS certification/.
• One year RN ED experience required.
• TNCC or TCAR within one year of hire.

Responsibilities

• Assess patient’s physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs.
• Evaluate patient responses and implement plans of care.
• Demonstrate competency in IVs, wound care, meds, catheterization, specimen collection.
• Document status and outcomes in patient records.
• Provide patient/family education and teach effectively.

Skills

BLS Certification

ACLS Certification

NIHSS

ED Nursing Experience

TNCC/TCAR within 1 year

Education

Associates Degree in Nursing

Nursing Diploma

Bachelor's Degree in Nursing

Job description

Job Summary And Responsibilities

As our RN, you will assume responsibility for facilitating, communicating, and collaborating with the healthcare team and patient/family to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the patient, advancing modern nursing through compassionate care. Every day you will promote optimal patient health, well-behavior, and safety through the nursing process, adhering to patient care standards, guidelines, and the State Nurse Practice Act, and demonstrating personal accountability for relationship-based care and our organizational mission. To be successful in this role, you will be a Registered Nurse with a commitment to compassionate, high-quality patient care, strong communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to apply the nursing process effectively within a supportive, mission-driven environment.

• Assess patient’s physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs through observation, interview, review of medical records & clinical data.
• Evaluates patient’s response and intervenes to ensure optimal patient outcome. Develop and implement patient plan of care and observe outcomes in accordance with nursing standards and in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
• Demonstrate competency in a variety of therapeutic/diagnostic interventions including, but not limited to, IV’s, incision/wound care, medication administration, catheterization, and specimen collections. Thorough and confidential maintenance of patient charts and records.
• Document ongoing status, interventions, patient response and outcomes in an accurate, timely manner. Use information technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.
• Promote, advocate, and collaborate to protect the health and safety and rights of each patient. Provide patient/family education through assessment of patient/family learning readiness, needs, and ability.
• Provide teaching and evaluate effectiveness of teaching.

We are offering a $10,000 sign on in addition to up to $8,000 relocation assistance to new hires who meet the eligibility requirements.

• 90 FTE-FT days-7am-7:30pm

Required

• Associates Degree in Nursing; Nursing Diploma or by endorsement
• Active and unencumbered RN License in state of employment
• BLS from the American Heart Association
• ACLS from the American Heart Association
• NIHSS
• One year RN ED experience
• TNCC or TCAR within one year of hire
• Physical Requirements: Medium Work exert/lift up to 50 lbs. force occasionally, and/or up to 20 lbs. frequently, and/or up to 10lbs. constantly

Preferred

• Bachelors Degree in Nursing
• CCRN

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Where You'll Work

The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at St. Catherine Hospital is an eight-bed ICU. We staff an intensivist 24 hours per day, we care for a wide range of patients from sepsis, COPD exacerbation, respiratory distress, pneumonia, heat failure, GI bleed, renal failure and overdose. We take care of patients with art lines, central lines, intubations, procedures and telemetry monitoring for floor patients as well. We occasionally receive overflow from the med/surg floor if they are full. We are on a mission to provide the best care for all patients, from pediatrics to geriatrics and all those in between. Individuals might want to join our department because we are known for our collaborative teamwork. We are more of a family than co-workers. The employees support one another and never leave anyone behind. We can self-schedule and have a chance to develop a multitude of skills. There is a variety of personalities on our unit because that allows us to provide the best care to each patient individually.

St. Catherine Hospital, located in Garden City, Kansas, was founded by two pioneering physicians and the Dominican Sisters. They created and maintained the spirit that has enabled St. Catherine Hospital employees to develop a thriving health care facility unlike any other in southwest Kansas. Like many of the families and businesses in our community, our roots run deep-85 years of excellence and counting. Residents of Garden City enjoy life in a relaxed, small-town (population approx. 30,000) with a zoo, several parks, golf courses, modern shopping and more.

Pay Range

$31.68 - $52.28 /hour