Description
**It's more than a career, it's a calling**
IL-SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon
**Worker Type:**
Regular
**Job Highlights:**
****Sign-on Bonus: $15,000**
**Department:** Inpatient Rehabilitation
**Schedule:** Full Time, Day Shift
**Starting Pay:** $32.73+ _(Offers are based on years of experience and equity for this role.)_
**Location:** Good Samaritan Hospital
1 Good Samaritan Way
Mt. Vernon, IL 62864
****Sign-on bonuses are for external qualified candidates. Internal candidates, please check with your recruiter to see what options are available for you.**
**Job Summary:**
Provides direct nursing care in accordance with established policies, procedures and protocols of the healthcare organization.
**Job Responsibilities and Requirements:**
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
+ Implements and monitors patient care plans. Monitors, records and communicates patient condition as appropriate.
+ Serves as a primary coordinator of all disciplines for well-coordinated patient care.
+ Notes and carries out physician and nursing orders.
+ Assesses and coordinates patient's discharge planning needs with members of the healthcare team.
+ Applies the existing body of evidence-based practice and scientific knowledge in health care to 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.
+ As an SSM Health nurse, I will demonstrate the professional nursing standards defined in the professional practice model. Uses the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses to guide his/her response to the current and evolving health and nursing needs of our patients and our patient populations.
+ Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
+ Performs other duties as assigned.
EDUCATION
+ Graduate of accredited school of nursing or education equivalency for licensing
EXPERIENCE
+ No experience required
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.
REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS
State of Work Location: Illinois
+ Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
+ And
+ Registered Professional Nurse (RN) - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR)
State of Work Location: Missouri
+ Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
+ And
+ Registered Nurse (RN) - Missouri Division of Professional Registration
+ Or
+ Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State
State of Work Location: Oklahoma
+ Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
+ And
+ Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State
+ Or
+ Registered Nurse (RN) - Oklahoma Board of Nursing (OBN)
State of Work Location: Wisconsin
+ Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
+ And
+ Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State
+ Or
+ Registered Nurse (RN) - Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services
**Work Shift:**
Day Shift (United States of America)
**Job Type:**
Employee
**Department:**
Inpatient Rehabilitation
**Scheduled Weekly Hours:**
36
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