Clinical Nurse - Same Day Surgery/PACU

Registered Nurse

Join our dynamic team at St. Louis Children's Hospital, dedicated to improving the health and lives of children. As one of the top-ranked children's hospitals in the country, we provide care in more than 50 specialty areas through a dedicated team of physicians, nurses, staff, and volunteers.

Job Description

• Provides pre and post-operative care to patients.
• Promotes patient and family-centered care in a healing environment. Educates patients and their families on how to manage their illness or injury, including post-treatment home care needs and medication administration.
• Participates in activities that promote patient safety, quality, and regulatory compliance. Participates in professional development.
• Develops, implements, and documents individual plans of care with defined goals in collaboration with other members of the interprofessional team and patient, family, or caregiver in accordance with the established guidelines and standards of nursing care. Proactively plans and ensures communication of the plan of care across the continuum of care.
• Uses critical nursing skills to assess and evaluate physical, psychosocial, and emotional needs according to standards of care. Assesses patient preferences and barriers to involvement in care, including their values, emotional, spiritual, cultural, and population-specific needs.
• BJC has determined this is a safety-sensitive position. The ability to work in a constant state of alertness and in a safe manner is an essential function of this job.

Requirements

• 2 years of recent bedside nursing experience (ideally in a Same Day Surgery/PACU or ICU setting).
• Nursing Diploma/Associate's degree in Nursing.
• RN license.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in pediatrics.
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing.

Benefits

• $15,000 sign-on bonus (available to eligible external candidates).
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date.
• Disability insurance paid for by BJC.
• Pension Plan /403(b) Plan funded by BJC.
• 401(k) plan with BJC match.
• Tuition Assistance available on first day.
• BJC Institute for Learning and Development.
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays, and personal time.
• Adoption assistance.

Community Overview

St. Louis Children's Hospital serves patients and families across a 300-mile service area and has seen patients from all 50 states and more than 80 countries. The hospital consistently ranks among America's Best Children's Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report in all surveyed categories. In 2021, it was one of eight children's hospitals to rank in the top 25 of all 10 specialties. The hospital's academic and physician partner, Washington University School of Medicine, is one of the top-ranked medical schools in the United States. Since 2005, St. Louis Children's has been designated as a Magnet hospital for nursing excellence from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).