Registered Nurse Med Surg Unit

CommonSpirit Health; Dodge City (KS); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus

Relocation assistance

Job summary

St. Catherine Hospital - Dodge City seeks a registered nurse to provide compassionate, patient-centered care on the Medical-Surgical unit. You will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to assess needs, develop plans, and ensure quality outcomes.

You will document care accurately, utilize IT tools to support decisions, and educate patients and families while maintaining safety and compliance with nursing standards.

Qualifications

• Active, unencumbered RN license in state of employment.
• Associate degree in nursing or nursing diploma; endorsement acceptable.
• BLS from the American Heart Association.
• NIHSS certification.
• One year RN experience.
• Physical requirements: medium work up to 50 lbs, etc.

Responsibilities

• Assess patients’ physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs.
• Develop and implement patient plans of care and monitor outcomes.
• Demonstrate competency in IV, wound care, meds, catheterization, specimen collection; maintain charts.
• Document status, interventions, and outcomes accurately; use IT to communicate and support decisions.
• Provide teaching and evaluate learning for patients and families.

Skills

Communication skills

Collaboration

Nursing process

Patient advocacy

Documentation

Education

Associate Degree in Nursing

Nursing Diploma

Nursing endorsement

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-being, 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 nights-7pm-7:30am

Job Requirements

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
• NIHSS
• One year RN experience
• 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

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Where You'll Work

As our Medical Surgical Nurse at St. Catherine Hospital - Dodge City, you’ll excel in your nursing career by providing care to patients admitted to our unit. Most of your patients are funneled in from other units providing you with the opportunity to build on your education and experience in specialized service lines such as cardiac, telemetry, orthopedics, neurology, critical care, surgical services, and emergency.

St. Catherine Hospital – Dodge City, is a Joint Commission accredited 99-bed hospital that serves as a regional referral center for southwest Kansas. Acute care is at the heart of what we do. St. Catherine Hospital – Dodge City provides health services that include diagnostics and interventional cardiology and cardiac rehabilitation. We combine patient-centered care with modern technology and medical expertise to treat a wide range of medical conditions.