Internal Number : 78777
Overview
St. Luke's Health System in Magic Valley is seeking a Full Time Registered Nurse to join our amazing Pre-Admission Testing team.
We are growing and expanding our PAT team! Come be apart of the excitment and #FindYourSelfHere
$10k Sign On Bonus offered for position (new hires only)
Schedule : 1.0 FTE (80 hours per pay period) Day shift 8, 9 or 10 hour shifts Monday-Friday based on surgery schedule needs.
Benefits
- Medical / Dental / Vision - Start the 1st of the month following your start date
- Retirement plans (403b) - No vesting period!
- Paid time off (Vacation, holidays and short term disability)
- Long term disability
- Life insurance
- Air St. Luke's
- Healthy U wellness plan
- Tuition / Certification Reimbursement & Scholarships
- Adoption Reimbursement
- and many more....
Unit Summary
Our unit is composed of some of the best nurses in Southern Idaho. PAT is a subunit of perioperative services that includes pre-op, and PACU.
The PAT has a vital role of optimizing patients before their surgery date to assist the patient in the best possible outcome.
The department requires that you be cross trained to one other department subunits. We prepare and recover patients that require surgical interventions for service lines such as vascular, urology, ENT, general surgery, orthopedics, plastics, OBGYN, gastroenterology, and podiatry.
We work very hard together to create an exceptional patient experience!
Responsibilities
- Identifies patient needs and determines priorities for care through assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation.
- Develops, implements and coordinates individualized plan of care for patients assigned through initial and on-going assessments.
- Initiates assessment based on the patient's problems or needs, the physician's medical diagnosis, and the functional health framework.
- Performs therapeutic nursing interventions.
- Manages care of patients.
- Documents care based on standards of care and practice, patient acuity, and / or clinical priorities
- Advocates for evidence-based practice care standards and supports adoption of evidence-based practices and innovations in care delivery.
- Provides patient centric care in alignment with professional nursing practice model.
- Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Qualifications
- Education : Bachelor's of Nursing Degree
- Experience : 1+ year of Pre-Admission testing, PreOp or PACU / recovery RN experience highly preferred
- Licenses / Certifications : Current RN licensure from the State of Practice, BLS is required.
Please note - This Registered Nurse position is for nurses with 1+ years of RN experience . We currently have our "STAR Nurse Residency New Grad RN (