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SSM Health is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) Med Surg for a nursing job in Ripon, Wisconsin.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Med Surg
- Discipline: RN
- Start Date: ASAP
- Duration: Ongoing
- Shift: flexible
- Employment Type: Permanent
At SSM Health, we know the healing power of presence begins with dedicated and compassionate employees like you!
We empower our nurses to do what is right for the patient. We encourage collaboration and teamwork and help you to leverage your skills and fulfill your calling as a nurse.
Sign-On Bonus offered to new hires!
$10,000 for Full-time (.80 fte to 1.0 fte)
$5,000 for Part-time (.50 fte to .79 fte)
Note: Service commitment of 24 months
Schedule: This is a full-time, benefited position scheduled for 72 hours per 2 week pay period on Nights with an every other weekend rotation, possibly moving to every third weekend.
Ripon Medical Center provides quality healthcare with a personalized approach for nearly 80 years. The facility is state-of-the-art and features 17 private patient rooms – 14 medical/surgical and three Intensive Care Unit. Surgical Services are available and feature three surgical suites and one endoscopic procedure room. Healing spaces have been incorporated into the hospital for patients and families to seek solitude and comfort. A meditation room and healing garden, near the Emergency Department, are key features, as well as a lot of natural lighting. Emergency care and urgent care services are available 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week through highly-qualified doctors and nurses in the Emergency Department.
Provides direct nursing care in accordance with established policies, procedures and protocols of the healthcare organization.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Uses standards of medical-surgical nursing practice to increase the quality of care and quality of life for the patient, family, and significant other(s) by systematically evaluating the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice.
- Establishes effective relationships and serves as an advocate with the patient, family, and significant other(s) to facilitate the development of the care plan unique to the patient’s care needs.
- Uses the nursing process to develop and implement the plan of care, collect assessment data for each patient, determine appropriate nursing diagnoses, identify expected patient outcomes, determine the plan of care, implement interventions, and evaluate patient outcomes.
- Develops assessment and management strategies based on a consideration of the physical, functional, cultural, social, economic, developmental, spiritual, vocational, and leisure dimensions of human responses to actual and potential health problems.
- Demonstrates knowledge of the impact of actual or potential illness and each patient’s physical, functional, cultural, social, economic, developmental, spiritual, vocational, and leisure status.
- Utilizes leadership skills by coordinating and collaborating with the patient, family, significant other(s), communities, and members of the inter-professional team in assessing needs, setting goals, planning interventions, providing care, and evaluating outcomes.
- Utilizes effective communication to participate with the patient, family, significant other(s), and other health care providers in collaborative decision making that reflects the understanding that care should be culturally sensitive, ethical, legal, holistic, informed, compassionate, and humane, and within the boundaries of available economic resources.
- Educates the patient, family, and significant other(s) about measures that promote, maintain, and restore health or promote comfort.
- Fosters a healthy work environment within the practice setting and profession by serving as a mentor and role model for nursing colleagues, students, and others.
- Applies the existing body of evidence-based practice and scientific knowledge in health care to medical-surgical nursing practice, ensuring that nursing care is delivered based on patient’s age-specific needs and clinical needs as described in the department’s Scope of Service.
- Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
- May perform point of care testing according to policies and procedures.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
EDUCATION
- Graduate of accredited school of nursing
EXPERIENCE
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Constant use of speech to share information through oral communication.
- Constant standing and walking.
- Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
- Frequent sitting, reaching and keyboard use/data entry.
- Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
- Frequent use of smell to detect/recognize odors.
- Frequent use of hearing to receive oral communication, distinguish body sounds and/or hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
- Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
- Occasional lifting/moving of patients.
- Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting, gripping and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
- Occasional driving.
- Rare crawling and running.
At SSM Health, we know the healing power of presence begins with dedicated and compassionate employees like you!
We empower our nurses to do what is right for the patient. We encourage collaboration and teamwork and help you to leverage your skills and fulfill your calling as a nurse.
Sign-On Bonus offered to new hires!
$5,000 (2+ years of experience)
$3,000 (less than 2 years of experience)
Note: Service commitment of 18 months
Schedule: This is a full-time, benefited position scheduled for 72 hours per 2 week pay period on Nights with an every other weekend rotation, possibly moving to every third weekend.
Ripon Medical Center provides quality healthcare with a personalized approach for nearly 80 years. The facility is state-of-the-art and features 17 private patient rooms – 14 medical/surgical and three Intensive Care Unit. Surgical Services are available and feature three surgical suites and one endoscopic procedure room. Healing spaces have been incorporated into the hospital for patients and families to seek solitude and comfort. A meditation room and healing garden, near the Emergency Department, are key features, as well as a lot of natural lighting. Emergency care and urgent care services are available 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week through highly-qualified doctors and nurses in the Emergency Department.
Provides direct nursing care in accordance with established policies, procedures and protocols of the healthcare organization.
About SSM Health
SSM Health has grown to be one of the largest integrated health systems in the country, because leadership, administration and providers work closely together to find solutions to the most pressing needs in medical care today. Collectively, our knowledge and resources are combined to innovate, optimize workflows and allow for better care delivery and patient interactions. Physicians and leadership engage in regular discussions designed to standardize practices that yield better outcomes across our system.
Physicians, providers and health care leaders seeking the stability and resources of a large, reputable integrated health system, as well as the collegiality and respect of peers and the rewards of practicing in a faith-based organization, choose SSM Health as their ideal practice setting.
SSM Health’s 23 hospitals, more than 290+ physician offices and outpatient care sites, and 10 post-acute facilities offer vast opportunities to shape the future of health care throughout Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin.
Benefits
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- Employee assistance programs
- Continuing Education
- Health savings account
- Health Care FSA
- Dependent Care FSA
- 403b retirement plan
- Life insurance
- Bereavement
- Relocation bonus
