CHI Health Mercy Council Bluffs·Council Bluffs, Iowa
Deliver compassionate, high-quality nursing care by performing critical assessments and implementing individualized patient care plans. Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to ensure optimal patient outcomes within a behavioral health setting.
Where You’ll Work At CHI Health Mercy Council Bluffs, patients are at the heart of our care.
Our campus is designed to heal the body, mind and spirit of every person in a more comfortable, less stressful hospital environment.
Our full range of medical services include a new pavilion featuring enhancements in heart and vascular care, surgery, maternity, cancer care, and diagnostic imaging.
Job Summary and Responsibilities As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery.Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans.
You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.To thrive in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others.
Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.
Follow the nursing process which includes: assess, plan, implement, and evaluate.
The nursing process is an ongoing process that can end at any stage.
Assessment - Demonstrates a systematic, dynamic way to collect and analyze the following healthcare consumer data including: psychological, physiological, sociocultural, spiritual, economic and lifestyle factors Plan – Sets measurable and achievable short and long term goals according to standards of care based on the assessment by the nurse in collaboration with the healthcare consumer and multidisciplinary team.
Implement – Implements and/or modifies the plan of care using assessment data, clinical reasoning based upon standards of care and evidence based practice.
This includes care coordination, education and discharge planning.
The nurse is accountable for the care directly, indirectly or through delegation.
Professional and legal standards for delegation must be followed.
Evaluate – Uses a systematic ongoing process to evaluate progress towards identified healthcare consumer goals.
Revision of plan of care when needed involving the healthcare consumer and the multidisciplinary team.
Documents all phases of the nursing process in the healthcare consumer’s record.
Job Requirements Required Graduate of an RN nursing program, upon hire Registered Nurse: IA, upon hire and Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire
Must be a graduate of an RN nursing program and hold a valid Registered Nurse license in Iowa. Basic Life Support (BLS) CPR certification is required upon hire.
Market context
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