BJC HealthCare·Saint Louis County, Missouri
Provides direct patient care including assessment, diagnosis, and implementation of care plans for acutely ill patients. Educates patients and families on illness management and ensures safety and regulatory compliance within the unit.
Great Floor to Enhance Your RN Skills! Additional Preferred Requirements BSN
Christian Hospital has been serving St.
Louis and the surrounding metro areas since 1903.
U.S.
News & World Report ranks Christian Hospital No.
5 in St.
Louis for overall clinical excellence and No.
9 in Missouri, which puts us in the top 6% of all hospitals in the state!
The U.S.
News adult methodology ranks clinical specialties and rates common care procedures and conditions.
Christian was nationally ranked as “high performing” in the clinical specialty of geriatrics and in the following seven of 21 common procedures and conditions: heart attack, heart failure, kidney failure, diabetes, COPD, pneumonia and stroke.
High performing in a specialty means we were in the top 10% nationally of all evaluated hospitals for that specialty or procedure and condition.
Northwest HealthCare, six miles west of Christian, offers 24- hour emergency care, the Sleep Disorders Center and a variety of outpatient diagnostic and imaging services.
The 8th floor is a 44 bed Renal/Telemetry unit with 24 sem8i-private rooms and 1 private room with an adjacent dialysis suite where dialysis treatments are performed under a contractual agreement.
The dialysis suite can accommodate 6 patients at any given time.
There are 2 negative air-flow rooms on the unit.
Any semi-private room can be made private for isolation purposes or to accommodate patient request.
Patients admitted to the 8th floor are acutely ill with medical problems whose primary reason for admission include but are not limited to Renal Failure, CHF, Pneumonia, COPD, Sepsis, Dehydration, Diabetes Mellitus, MI, Angioplasty, S/P Cardiac Catheterization, Cardiac Arrhythmias, Direct Admits along with Post-op surgical patients.
Role Purpose Provides direct patient care activities including assessment, diagnosis, planning implementation, and evaluation within the guidelines of the standards of nursing care.
Benefits: and Legal Statement
Requires a Nursing Diploma or Associate's degree and a valid RN license. A Bachelor's degree in Nursing is preferred, and the role is open to candidates with no prior experience.
Market context
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