Registered Nurse (Medical Care Center)

Quick Facts

• Registered Nurse role in an inpatient Medical Care Center
• Full-time, days 7:00am–7:30pm with rotating weekends
• 24-bed unit serving adult general medical and medical oncology patients (age 18+)

Description

Provide clinically competent registered nursing care to acutely ill adult medical and medical oncology patients using the nursing process. You will collect and analyze patient data, develop and implement individualized outcome-focused care plans, coordinate care delivery, and evaluate patient responses. Collaboration with patients, families, physicians, and the broader care team is central to the role.

Responsibilities

• Collect and analyze data; identify expected outcomes; develop, implement, and evaluate individualized plans of care
• Direct care and determine the appropriate utilization of assistants involved in direct patient care
• Create and document outcome-focused care plans, including communications with patients and families
• Participate in shared governance, committee work, and unit projects
• Evaluate and document patient responses to nursing interventions; individualize the plan of care based on findings
• Use the best available evidence, including research findings, to guide practice decisions

Requirements

• BSN
• Current Illinois Registered Professional Nurse (RN) license
• American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) certification
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to collaborate with others
• Strong analytic abilities
• ADN acceptable only with commitment to obtain a BSN within three years of first day of employment in a clinical nurse role

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits supporting physical, emotional, and financial well-being
• Benefits details available by employment classification
• Sign-on bonus eligibility may apply; internal employees and rehires who left within 1 year are not eligible (with the posting’s new graduate internal exception)