Graduate Nurse, Cardiovascular Care Unit

Job Title: Graduate Nurse - Cardiovascular Care Unit

About the Role

• Licensed new graduate nurse from an accredited nursing program.
• Actively participates in the SSM Health New Graduate Nurse Residency Program.
• Provides professional nursing care to patients.

Key Responsibilities

• Assessing, planning, implementing, coordinating, delegating, and monitoring tasks assigned to other members of the care team in accordance with professional nursing standards.
• Delivery of age-appropriate care for assigned patients with a wide variety of medical conditions.
• Performs specialized tasks based on demonstrated competence to provide nursing care for the patient population served.
• Performs patient assessments including biophysical, psychosocial, spiritual, cultural, and age-appropriate needs.
• Assesses nutrition, pain management, and signs/symptoms of abuse or neglect.
• Develops, evaluates, and modifies patient's plan of care.
• Develops a realistic, comprehensive patient and family educational plan using appropriate resources and methods of instruction.
• Provides patient/family health education and coaching.
• Completes accurate and timely documentation, including processing physician orders, in accordance with policies and procedures.
• Monitors and evaluates the delivery of nursing care given by team members based on patient needs and professional judgment.
• Collaborates with physicians and other health care professionals regarding all aspects of patient care.
• Completes competency and requirements.
• Applies the existing body of evidence-based practice and scientific knowledge to nursing practice.
• Ensures nursing care is delivered based on patient's age-specific needs and clinical needs as described in the department's scope of service.
• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing or education equivalency for licensing.
• Registered Professional Nurse (RN) license.
• Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA) certification.

Specific licensing and certification requirements vary by state. Consult the "Required Professional License And/Or Certifications" section in the raw description for state-specific details.

Qualifications

Physical Requirements:

• Constant use of speech for 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 near and far distances, and to identify/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 or malfunctioning machinery.
• 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.

Work Environment

• Work Shift: Night Shift.