Registered Nurse - Same Day Surgery - Full Time

The Staff Registered Nurse (RN) is responsible for the professional nursing functions of supporting, planning, directing, communicating, and evaluating direct patient care for all age spans and for providing an environment of unsurpassed service. This position will demonstrate proficiency in administering the fundamentals of the nursing process, contribute to nursing assessment and the development of a nursing care plan, and participate in the evaluation of nursing care.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

1.  Provide skilled patient care

• Administer medications to patients and monitor patients’ reactions or side effects.
• Record patients’ medical information and vital signs.
• Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patients’ conditions.
• Modify patient treatment plans as indicated by patients' responses and conditions.
• Monitor all aspects of patient care, including diet and physical activity.
• Prescribe or recommend drugs, medical devices, or other forms of treatment, such as physical therapy, inhalation therapy, or related therapeutic procedures.
• Order, interpret, and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient's condition.
• Manage patients' pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions, monitoring patients' responses, and changing care plans accordingly.
• Perform emergency medical procedures, such as basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), and other condition-stabilizing interventions.
• Diagnose acute or chronic conditions that could result in rapid physiological deterioration or life-threatening instability.
• Assess urgent and emergent health conditions, using both physiologically and technologically derived data.
• Assess the impact of illnesses or injuries on patients' health, function, growth, development, nutrition, sleep, rest, quality of life, or family, social and educational relationships.
• Distinguish between normal and abnormal developmental and age-related physiological and behavioral changes in acute, critical, and chronic illness.
• Order, perform, or interpret the results of diagnostic tests and screening procedures based on assessment results, differential diagnoses, and knowledge about age, gender and health status of clients.
• Follows standards of nursing care as well as the nursing process of Assessment, Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation while delivering high quality patient care.
• Ability to assess multiple systems, develop plan of care providing intervention and education an assess outcomes of patient care
• Prioritizes patient care based on individual departments and overall patient needs
• Consistently identifies learning needs, tailors instructions to the patients level of understanding and documents response to education

2. Demonstrate personal and professional growth and competent nursing practice

• Knowledge of infection control practices and the relationship to patient care outcomes.
• Promotes and consistently demonstrates hand hygiene.
• Demonstrates critical thinking skills.
• Applies knowledge based on clinical situations.

3. Accurate documentation in EMR

• Document data related to patients’ care, including assessment results, interventions, medications, patient responses, or treatment changes.

4. Communicate with internal and external customers

• Collaborate with members of multidisciplinary health care teams to plan, manage, or assess patient treatments.
• Consult and coordinate with healthcare professionals to assess, plan, implement, or evaluate patient care plans.
• Direct and oversee Certified Nursing Assistants.
• Instruct individuals, families, or other groups on topics such as health education, disease prevention, or childbirth and develop health improvement programs.
• Assess the needs of individuals, families, or communities, including assessment of individuals’ home or work environments, to identify potential health or safety problems.
• Inform physician of patient’s condition during anesthesia.
• Discuss illness and treatments with patients and family members.
• Assess the needs of patients’ family members or caregivers.

* While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the job requirements, management reserves the right to modify, add or remove duties from particular jobs and to assign other duties as necessary.

Education:

• Associate’s degree in nursing required;
• Bachelor’s degree in nursing preferred

Licensure:

• Current WI Registered Nurse license required

Certifications: 

• BLS required upon hire
• ACLS completed within 6 months in role
• PALS completed within 6 months in role

Experience:

• One-year acute care services experience required

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Excellent communication and listening skills
• Demonstrated ability to work independently with little direction and manage multiple demands and priorities
• Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
• Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
• Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Prolonged periods of standing, bending, and reaching
• Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds at times. 

St. Croix Health has been a healing force in the St. Croix Valley for over 103 years. We are a purpose-driven organization with a dedicated team committed to serving our patients and communities throughout the St. Croix Valley. This commitment is rooted in our mission, vision and values. 

Mission:  We help people live healthier, happier, and longer lives.              

Vision:  To transform from quality sick care to quality well care that is sustainable and affordable. 

Values:  People Centered, Trust, Innovation, and Growth. 

Here at St. Croix Health we offer our employees with a robust benefits package that includes: 

• Health, vision and dental insurance
• 403b retirement program with employer match
• Paid time off
• Short-term disability, long-term disability and life insurance options
• Education reimbursement
• Employee assistance program (EAP)
• Wellbeing incentive program
• Free parking
• Employee prescription discount program

St. Croix Health is a not-for-profit healthcare system located in St. Croix Falls, WI dedicated to helping people live healthier, happier, and longer lives. St. Croix Health offers the services of 80+ providers and 20 specialties with five community clinics in Minnesota and Wisconsin all supported by a critical access hospital on the main campus in St. Croix Falls, just an hour northeast of Minneapolis/St. Paul. Nestled in the bluffs of the St. Croix River Valley, St. Croix Falls is the ideal place to work, live and play.