Stepdown - Clinical Nurse

Christian Hospital and Northwest HealthCare; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign on bonus eligible

Days or nights available

Job summary

Christian Hospital is seeking a registered nurse to provide direct patient care in a MICU-style environment with high-acuity cases without an ICU setting. Roles include assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care, with emphasis on safety and teamwork.

The position supports day or night shifts, with a sign-on bonus eligible and a focus on patient- and family-centered care within a collaborative interprofessional team.

Qualifications

• Provides direct patient care including assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation.
• Promotes patient and family centered care in a healing environment.
• Ensures patient safety, quality and regulatory compliance.
• Collaborates with interprofessional team to coordinate care.

Responsibilities

• Promotes patient and family centered care and educates on at-home care.
• Participates in activities that promote patient safety, quality and regulatory compliance.
• Develops, implements, and documents care plans with defined goals with the team.
• Assesses physical, psychosocial, and emotional needs of patients.
• Maintains vigilance as this is a safety-sensitive position.

Skills

Patient care

Nursing

Team communication

Education

Nursing Diploma/Associate's

Bachelor's Degree in Nursing

Job description

Functions like a MICU so you are seeing high acuity without being in an ICU

3:1 ratio

Sign on bonus eligible!

Additional Information About The Role

Days or nights available!

Functions like a MICU so you are seeing high acuity without being in an ICU

3:1 ratio

Sign on bonus eligible!

Overview

Additional Preferred Requirements

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, which puts us in the top 6% of all hospitals in the state!

The U.S. News adult methodology ranks clinical specialties and rates common care procedures and conditions. Christian was nationally ranked as "high performing" in the clinical specialty of geriatrics and in the following seven of 21 common procedures and conditions: heart attack, heart failure, kidney failure, diabetes, COPD, pneumonia and stroke. High performing in a specialty means we were in the top 10% nationally of all evaluated hospitals for that specialty or procedure and condition.

Northwest HealthCare, six miles west of Christian, offers 24- hour emergency care, the Sleep Disorders Center and a variety of outpatient diagnostic and imaging services.

Preferred Qualifications

Role Purpose

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

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.

Minimum Requirements

Education

• Nursing Diploma/Associate's
• Nursing

Experience

• No Experience

Supervisor Experience

• No Experience

Licenses & Certifications

• RN

Preferred Requirements

Education

• Bachelor's Degree
• Nursing

Experience

Benefits and Legal Statement

BJC Total Rewards

At BJC we’re committed to providing you and your family with benefits and resources to help you manage your physical, emotional, social and financial well-being.

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

• Not all benefits apply to all jobs

Equal Opportunity Employer