About This Role
Registered Nurses at Bon Secours deliver patient care using the nursing process, which involves data collection, assessment, identifying patient needs, and evaluating care outcomes. This role coordinates and directs patient teaching activities and the care provided by other health team members.
Responsibilities
- Conduct initial and ongoing patient assessment in collaboration with the interdisciplinary care team
- Analyze assessment data
- Create a plan of care
- Implement treatment and evaluate treatment effectiveness
- Administer medications safely and consistently with the State of Practice and organization policies and procedures
- Serve as point of contact for patients' care coordination throughout hospital departments
- Act as a patient safety advocate by participating in ongoing quality improvement in the department
- Incorporate the professional practice model into care delivery
Requirements
- Knowledge of contemporary nursing practice and future innovations
- Nursing judgment and skill based on principles of the biological, physical, behavioral, and social sciences
- Application of the nursing process in patient care delivery
- Coordination of patient care delivery
- Evaluation of professional nursing practice to optimize goals and outcomes
- Health teaching and health promotion
- Patient advocacy and partnership
- Interprofessional collaboration and leadership
- Understanding and utilization of office and clinical technologies
- Compassionate, relationship-based approach to help find meaning in illness, suffering, pain, and existence
- Integration of quality improvement, evidence based practices and research in practice
- Accountability for professional actions
- Effective stewardship of available resources
- Conflict management and resilience
- Authority for delegating activities to others, while remaining responsible and accountable for outcomes
- BLS Basic Life Support, American Heart Association (required at hire for Roper St Francis Healthcare locations; preferred at hire, required prior to independent patient care at BSMH)
- Valid nursing license from the state of practice (required)
- Associate of Nursing, nursing (required)
- Diploma in Nursing (required)
Nice to have:
- Bachelors of Science, nursing
Benefits
- Incentives and referral bonuses
- 403(b) with employer contributions (when eligible)
- Medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage, HSA/FSA options, life insurances, mental health resources and discounts