Wellness Outpatient Nurse

BJC HealthCare; Ballwin (MO); On-site; USD 55,000 - 83,000; Part time

Job summary

BJC Corporate Health Services, part of BJC HealthCare, is seeking a PRN registered nurse for outpatient health/wellness assessments. The role involves direct patient care with a focus on planning, implementing, and evaluating care within nursing standards.

Responsibilities include developing care plans, collaborating with an interprofessional team, and ensuring seamless communication across care settings. A nursing license is required, with 2-5 years of experience preferred.

Qualifications

• RN licensure required.
• Nursing Diploma or Associate's degree required.
• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• 2-5 years of clinical nursing experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assess patient preferences and barriers to involvement in care, including their values, emotional, spiritual, cultural, and population-specific needs.
• Develops, implements, and documents individual plans of care with defined goals in collaboration with the interprofessional team and patient, family or caregiver, ensuring communication across the continuum of care.
• Promotes respect and empathy in care delivery, supporting emotional, spiritual, and cultural preferences of patient, family, and caregivers, and advocating for patient-family centered continuity of care.
• Demonstrates ongoing advancement of nursing practice through community health events, professional involvement, quality improvement, and continuing education activities.
• Evaluates changes in patient condition and communicates plan updates to family and interprofessional team, ensuring evidence-based care.
• This is a safety-sensitive position; the ability to work in a constant state of alertness is essential.

Education

Nursing Diploma/Associate's

Nursing

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Additional Information About The Role

PRN – As needed basis

Scheduling requirements are flexible

• 2 shifts every 6 weeks
• 1 Saturday shift ever 12 weeks

Events can vary on time but typically see staff working from 8 am to 11 am.

Working with a variety of populations to conduct health/wellness assessments

Outpatient setting

Overview

BJC Corporate Health Services comprises several organizations that share a dedication to creating and maintaining healthy workplaces. Serving hundreds of area employers as well as BJC HealthCare, BJC Corporate Health Services specializes in improving worker health, safety and productivity and reducing costs associated with work-related illness/injury and absenteeism.

Role Purpose

Provides direct patient care activities including assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation within the guidelines of the standards of nursing care to patients who require a high level of clinical expertise.

Responsibilities

• Assess patient preferences and barriers to involvement in care, including their values, emotional, spiritual, cultural, and population-specific needs.
• 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.
• Promotes respect, equity and empathy in interactions with diverse and vulnerable populations through care delivery (e.g. support for emotional, spiritual, and cultural preferences of patient, family and/or caregivers). Practices collaborative problem solving, service recovery and advocacy for patient family centered continuity of care. Implements care by integrating data from the interprofessional team and critical thinking in a safe and timely manner.
• Demonstrates their individual role to the ongoing advancement of nursing clinical practice (e.g. participation in community health events, professional organization membership, quality improvement, continuing education activities).
• Evaluates changes in patient's condition, informs and collaborates with family and/or caregivers, and communicates with interprofessional team as changes occur in plan of care, updates plan of care in EMR. Evaluates current nursing care to ensure evidence-based practice and quality patient outcomes.
• 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

Supervisor Experience

• No Experience

Licenses & Certifications

• RN

Preferred Requirements

Education

• Bachelor's Degree
• Nursing

Experience

• 2-5 years

Benefits And Legal Statement

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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

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The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this position. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Equal Opportunity Employer