Sauk Prairie Healthcare

Sauk Prairie Healthcare

RN - Acute Care (per diem)

Hospital Campus - Prairie du Sac, WI

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 12 days ago
EHR/EMRPatient CareMentoring

About the role

  • Provide quality, professional, general nursing care to patients.
  • Responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, documenting, and evaluating patient care for a group of patients on the unit.
  • Must adapt appropriately to changes in daily assignments, patient status changes, and unit needs.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain a comprehensive understanding of procedures and treatments and have the ability to explain them to patients at their level of understanding.
  • Perform or assist with procedures per approved unit policy and procedure.
  • Learn and maintain skills and equipment competencies as needed.
  • Safely care for multiple patients. Maintains a safe environment for patients and uses safety precautions appropriately.

Requirements

  • Required: Associate Degree in Nursing
  • Required: Current State of Wisconsin Registered Nurse license or Multistate Nurse License
  • Required: Basic Life Support required within 3 months of hire.
  • Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) required within one year of hire.
  • Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) required within 6 months of hire.

Nice to have

  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing
  • RNs providing care to progressive care-level patients must have previous ICU/PACU or Critical Care experience or have completed SPH's PC Mentorship Program
  • Preferred: Bachelor of Science in Nursing
  • Preferred: RNs providing care to progressive care-level patients must have previous ICU/PACU or Critical Care experience or have completed SPH's PC Mentorship Program

Skills

  • Within the framework of unit requirements, physician orders, and policy and procedures, provide care independently with minimal supervision.

Benefits

  • Competitive health and dental insurance options
  • Flexible paid time off to balance work and life
  • Retirement plan with immediate vesting and employer match
  • Discounted membership to our state-of-the-art fitness facility
  • Generous tuition reimbursement
  • Employer provided life and disability insurance
  • Delegate to and collaborates with other health team members in planning and providing care based on patient needs.
  • Initiate, develop and document patient plan of care based on patient assessment and medical diagnosis and set priorities for nursing action in accordance with unit policy.
  • Via the electronic medical record (EMR), acknowledge physician's orders by the process of review and verification.
  • Initiate patient/family education plan and discharge needs according to the individualized needs of the patient/family, as prescribed by physician and/or hospital policy.
  • Apply and monitor medical equipment and devices such as cardiac monitors, mechanical ventilators and alarms, external pacemakers, oxygen delivery devices, transduce/pressure lines and central lines.

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