Mercyhealth Wisconsin and Illinois·Janesville, Wisconsin
The Registered Nurse utilizes the nursing process to provide patient care, administer medications, and perform clinical assessments. They collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to develop and execute individualized patient care plans while ensuring safety and quality standards.
Provides compassionate nursing care to patients in a clinical setting while supporting the Mercyhealth nursing mission and values. May include variable shifts, weekends, holidays, and/or on-call hours. May also float to different units based on staffing needs and clinical competency. Performs other related duties as assigned.
Schedule: PRN
Shift: Variable
Essential duties and responsibilities
Utilizes the nursing process and collaborates with interdisciplinary team members in caring for patients.
Administers prescribed medications and treatments in accordance with approved nursing techniques, policies and procedures, standards of care, and State laws practice act.
Documents according to standards of care.
Performs assessments, planning, intervention, and evaluation of care.
Develops, initiates, and executes a patient plan of care according to the individualized needs of the patient, as prescribed by Physician and or clinic policy including patient and family instruction.
Participates in department or unit performance improvement activities, may include shared governance.
Utilizes clinical expertise and guidance to other units’ departments in support of the patient’s longitudinal plan of care.
Utilizes critical thinking regarding patient safety and patient experience and appropriately escalates to the appropriate chain of command.
Participates in the professional nursing continuum process, unit practice activities and decisions and peer review process.
Graduate of an accredited nursing program.
ADN required upon hire, BSN preferred.
Required: Two years applicable RN experience to qualify (per department guidelines)
Certification and licensure: Licensed as an RN in state of practice
Approved CPR/BLS certification required within 90 days
Other certification(s) per unit requirements. For example: ACLS, PALS, PEARS, and NRP
Passing the Driver’s License Check and or Credit Check (for those positions requiring). Passing the WI Caregiver Background Check and or IL Health Care Workers Background Check. Must be able to follow written or oral instructions.
Skills and abilities: May include color blind test (per department guidelines)
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Category A - All partners in the specified job classification have occupational exposure.
Partner may access patient care information needed to perform their job duties.
Work contact group: Partners, physicians, patients’ family, visitors, vendors
The Special Physical Demands are considered Essential Job Functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodations.
RN Hospital, RN Home Health and Hospice, RN Oncology: While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to walk and talk or hear.
The employee is frequently required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms.
The employee is occasionally required to sit and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
The employee must frequently lift and or move up to 100 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision and ability to adjust focus.
RN Clinic and Ambulatory RN’s: While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.
The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms.
The employee is occasionally required to sit; stoop, kneel, crouch, or smell.
The employee must regularly lift and or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and or move up to 50 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.
$34.45 - $51.68
Mercyhealth is an Equal Opportunity Employer [https://careers.mercyhealthsystem.org/jobs]. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
Mercyhealth offers competitive pay and benefits, including retirement, time off, on-demand pay, access to the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and more. Click here [https://www.mercyhealthsystem.org/join-our-team/benefits/] for more details.
At Mercyhealth, we don’t simply hire people, we empower employee-partners who are passionate about making lives better. As an integrated health system, we deliver exceptional, coordinated across seven hospitals, 85 primary and specialty clinics, and a team of over 7,500 professionals serving northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin.
Market context
In Wisconsin, CNA openings are often driven by ongoing staffing needs in hospitals, long-term care, and other patient-care settings. These roles can be competitive because employers may prefer candidates with current state certification, though some will also consider applicants who have completed a 75-hour training program and are awaiting the state exam. Review the AI-summarized requirements and benefits here to save research time, then confirm your certification status and availability before applying.