Registered Nurse RBH 7p-7a

Job Description

Job Description

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Welcome Bonus $10,000!

Focusing on “Whole-Person” Healthcare

Meridian Health Services is a progressive healthcare organization that believes in treating the “whole-person” integrating physical, mental and social well-being to help people achieve their optimum health. This approach connects treatments and doctors working together to heal both the body and mind for total well-being.

Meridian Health Services is currently seeking a full time Registered Nurse to provide services at Riverbend Hospital located in Lafayette, Indiana. This position works full time, night shifts, 7pm - 7am.

Registered Nurse Key Responsibilities :

• Demonstrates medication administration skills : (minimal errors, timely med pass) :
• Demonstrates pharmacodynamics knowledge : (adverse effects, drug interactions, therapeutic response, etc.).
• Demonstrates knowledge of pathophysiology with particular emphasis on population served.
• Demonstrates skill with physical assessment.
• Demonstrates timely follow through with client appointments, labs, and medical concerns.
• Acts as patient advocate to monitor individualization of treatment, coordinate treatment plans, and work with treatment in effective and proactive manner.
• Demonstrates effective and respectful verbal communication skills with clients, co-workers, and visitors.
• Informs physicians of changes in client’s condition (behavioral / physical, abnormal labs / vital signs, significant contact with others).
• Demonstrates ability to complete required clinical documentation.
• Accurately documents and transcribes physician’s orders
• Obtains staff input regarding safety / security risks in making unit management decisions.
• Implements necessary restrictions ordered or as nursing measures when warranted by physical and / or psychiatric conditions.
• Demonstrates safety / security on unit (verbal / physical interventions (CPI), emergency codes, universal precautions, CPR, event reports, assessment of client risk factors).
• Demonstrates skill with documentation (PRN’s, timely notation of orders, charting, etc.).
• Demonstrates skill with admission / discharge process : (completes paperwork in a timely manner including assessment for pain, falls, and suicide risk).
• Demonstrates effective and timely written communication skills.
• Demonstrates effective planning and organization skills.
• Uses the nursing process to manage and allocate personnel and unit resources, to assure completion of unit tasks, and to meet the needs of clients and milieu.
• Motivates nursing staff to grow professionally by acting as a role model in direct appropriate communication, professional accountability, and continuing education.
• Uses the nursing process to formulate individual treatment plans in consultation with unit staff, physicians, treatment team, and other disciplines; treatment plans are formulated toward psychosocial, medical, cultural, age-specific, and pain management needs.
• Good time management skills, including the ability to structure time, prioritize activities, and be self-motivated.
• Teaches, trains, and supervises clients and staff (empowering and teaching new responsibilities within acceptable limits).
• Demonstrates good judgment and decision-making skills.
• Meets with supervisor for clinical and administrative supervision.
• Works well with other departments and outside agencies.
• Attends or completes all mandatory nursing requirements required by hospital.
• Maintains professional boundaries.
• Demonstrates dependability with attendance, punctuality, availability, completion of duties in a timely manner.
• Demonstrates competence in use of electronic health record.
• Maintains current CPR and TB certification.
• Assumes Nursing on call shifts as needed.

We are seeking Registered Nurse candidates with the following qualities :

Meridian Health Services provides Registered Nurse the following benefits :

River Bend Hospital | North Central Health Services provides these additional benefits :

Drug screen, TB test, extensive background check, and fingerprinting are required of all Meridian employees. Meridian Health Services recommends that all individuals who join Meridian have a flu shot and Covid vaccination to further protect our staff and the patients we serve. We also adhere to Covid-related protocol including wearing masks, social distancing, and sanitizing.

Meridian Health Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer (M / F / D / V) and also participates in E-Verify.