Registered Nurse - Surgery - Transplant

It's more than a career, it's a calling
MO-SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital 1201 Grand

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Highlights:

Join a team where your work matters—every moment, every patient, every community. At SSM Health, you’ll be empowered to grow, supported to thrive, and inspired to make a lasting impact.

In this role, you'll join a nationally recognized Level I Trauma, Stroke, and STEMI center, caring for complex surgical patients across a wide range of specialties in a fast-paced, highly collaborative operating room. With comprehensive OR training, weekly education, cutting-edge technology, including robotics and intraoperative MRI, and a team that feels like family, you'll have endless opportunities to build your skills and advance your career.

Department: Transplant Operating Room

Schedule: Full-time Day shift, working 10-hour shifts, with a weekend and holiday rotation. On-call response time of 30-minutes required.

Sign-On Bonus: Ask your recruiter about sign-on bonus eligibility

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Job Summary:
Uses the nursing process in care delivery, providing care for transplant patients.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provides care for the perioperative patient by completing a comprehensive preoperative assessment, planning, and implementing individualized nursing interventions and evaluating the effectiveness of care and modifying interventions as needed.
- Prioritizes multiple complex patients and physician needs to delegate and coordinate the care provided by the surgical team to maximize patient outcomes.
- Coordinates patient care assignments to personnel supervised, considering staff competencies, patient population, equipment used, patient condition, environmental factors, infection control, safety factors, and availability of direct/indirect supervision.
- Communicates with patients, staff, and physicians to anticipate needs and develop and implement actions to be taken in response to complaints related to patient care processes.
- Maintains and enhances professional clinical skills by seeking out learning situations and remaining knowledgeable of current advances in transplant and multiple surgical specialty nursing techniques and technologies.
- Serves as a consultant to personnel in the area(s) on nursing expertise.  Teaches and mentors other less-experienced nurses and technicians.
- Demonstrates advanced clinical judgement as evidenced by knowledge of complex nursing interventions required in transplant and multiple surgical specialty areas.
- Initiates actions that work to improve processes within the department.
- 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.
- 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

- One year advanced surgical experience

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:
4403000037 Surgery

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

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