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Worker Type:

Regular

Job Highlights:

RN – Endoscopy Ambulatory Surgery Center – Madison

Come join our team of 55+ staff and expand your expertise across various nursing areas, offering you the flexibility to grow both personally and professionally. We provide the support you need to excel in a dynamic environment and advance your career while maintaining work-life balance. As an Endoscopy Nurse, you’ll play a vital role in educating and supporting adult patients before their scheduled procedures. You’ll work in a fast-paced, patient -facing environment, guiding patients through each step of their visit at the Digestive Health Center- from admission and procedural sedation to circulating and recovery. Your ability to communicate effectively and provide compassionate care will ensure a seamless experience for every patient. In addition, this role offers a variety of growth opportunities to support both gastroenterologist and pulmonologists in an acute care setting at St. Mary’s Hospital. The flexibility to float between departments provide valuable experience. Does require call for evening, night, weekend, and holidays. Manageable call coverage is currently three nights a month and every tenth weekend.

• Schedule: M-F 8 hour shifts. Rotating through staggered shifts starting at 6:30AM, 7AM, 7:30AM, 8AM, 8:30AM. May be expected at times stay past shift to finish off daily assignment.

• Primary location is the Digestive Health Center in the Outpatient Center on St. Mary’s Hospital-Madison campus. May need to float over to St. Mary’s Hospital-Madison Endoscopy Suite to support and be a part of the inpatient team. Call commitment when working as part of the inpatient team is about three nights a week and every tenth weekend.

• Qualifications: Procedure sedation experience. ACLS certification. Worked in a procedure/surgery center. Hospital experience preferred. Must be a nurse of a year or more.

• Scrubs are provided.

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:

6456810164 DHC Surgery

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

32

Benefits:

SSM Health values our exceptional employees by offering a comprehensive benefits package to fit their needs.

• Paid Parental Leave : we offer eligible team members one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE).

• Flexible Payment Options: our voluntary benefit offered through DailyPay offers eligible hourly team members instant access to their earned, unpaid base pay (fees may apply) before payday.

• Upfront Tuition Coverage : we provide upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members.

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