Description
At Bon Secours Mercy Health, we are dedicated to continually improving health care quality, safety and cost effectiveness. Our hospitals, care sites and clinicians are recognized for clinical and operational excellence.
Job Description
Southside Regional Medical Center is your community health care provider, a 300-bed facility located on a 50-acre campus with nearly 400 physicians representing more than 40 specialties. We work hard every day to be a place of healing, caring and connection for patients and families in the community we call home. Bon Secours - Southside Medical Center serves the communities of Petersburg, Hopewell, Colonial Heights, Fort Lee and Chester and the counties of Prince George, Dinwiddie, Sussex, Surry and Southern Chesterfield.
**-Southside Medical Center is excited to launch a one-of-a-kind nursing unit, the Innovation Lab. This unit will focus on executing the latest technology, creative care delivery, futuristic workflow and education, and unprecedented flexibility. The primary goal will be the modernization of workflow and care delivery models through the piloting and development of advanced healthcare technology. As a part of the Innovation team, we will collectively focus on associate wellbeing, resiliency, and work life balance. Come join our team as we foster a new and innovative work environment in a smaller personalized unit with lower patient ratios.-**
**-PRN Days or Nights-**
**-Must have a year of acute RN experience.-**
Do you have the qualities mentioned below? If so, you may be interested in our NEW Innovation Lab at SMC.
**Committed to change** the ability to continuously initiate and respond to change in ways that create advantage, minimize safety risk, and sustain performance
**Ability to learn from failure** learn from your mistakes and use your newfound experience as motivation for your future efforts.
**Tenacity or steadfastness** continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition.
**Willingness to go against the status quo** - proposes a new idea that may be worth exploring and asks if there might be a better way. Sees solutions where others see problems.
**Summary of Primary Function**
Delivers patient care utilizing the nursing process through data collection and assessment, identifies and determines the priority of patient's problems/needs, and evaluates the process and outcome of nursing care; coordinates, provides and directs patient teaching activities and coordinates the care provided by health team members.
**Essential Job Functions**
In collaboration with the interdisciplinary care team, conducts initial and ongoing patient assessment, analyzes assessment data, creates a plan of care, implements treatment and evaluates treatment effectiveness; administers medications in a safe manner consistent with the State of Practice and Bon Secours Mercy Health policies and procedures; serves as point of contact for patients' care coordination throughout hospital departments. Acts as a patient safety advocate by participating in ongoing quality improvement in the department. Incorporates the professional practice model into care delivery
**Skills**
- Knowledge of contemporary nursing practice and future innovations
- Nursing judgment and skill based on principles of the biological, physical, behavioral, and social sciences
- Application of the nursing process in patient care delivery
- Coordination of patient care delivery
- Evaluation of professional nursing practice to optimize goals and outcomes
- Health teaching and health promotion
- Patient advocacy and partnership
- Interprofessional collaboration and leadership
- Understanding and utilization of office and clinical technologies
- Compassionate, relationship-based approach to help find meaning in illness, suffering, pain, and existence
- Integration of quality improvement, evidence based practices and research in practice
- Accountability for professional actions
- Effective stewardship of available resources
- Conflict management and resilience
- Authority for delegating activities to others, while remaining responsible and accountable for outcomes
**Certifications**
BLS Basic Life Support - American Heart Association (preferred)
Valid nursing license from the state of practice (required)
**Education**
Associate of Nursing, nursing (required)
OR
Diploma in Nursing (required)
Bachelors of Science, nursing (preferred)
Many of our opportunities reward* your hard work with:
Comprehensive, affordable medical, dental and vision plans
Prescription drug coverage
Flexible spending accounts
Life insurance w/AD&D
Employer contributions to retirement savings plan when eligible
Paid time off
Educational Assistance
And much more
*Benefits offerings vary according to employment status
All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, genetic information, or protected veteran status, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. If you'd like to view a copy of the affirmative action plan or policy statement for Mercy Health - Youngstown, Ohio or Bon Secours - Franklin, Virginia; Petersburg, Virginia; and Emporia, Virginia, which are Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employers, please email recruitment@ . If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact The Talent Acquisition Team at recruitment@
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