BJC HealthCare·Des Peres, Missouri
Provides direct patient care including assessment, diagnosis, and implementation of care plans for post-surgical patients. Educates patients and families on illness management and ensures compliance with safety and regulatory standards.
Missouri Baptist Medical Center, an acute care hospital in St.
Louis County, offers a full continuum of medical and surgical services, including heart care, cancer, women and infants, breast health, gastrointestinal, orthopedic, stroke, therapy, wound and pain management services.
The hospital has a 24-hour adult emergency department and cares for pediatric patients at a separate emergency department in collaboration with St.
Louis Children’s Hospital.
Missouri Baptist is the first and only hospital in St.
Louis County to be named a Magnet® hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
The prestigious designation is the highest credential a health care organization can receive for nursing excellence and quality patient care.
This recognition has been accomplished by less than nine percent of hospitals nationwide.
Additionally, U.S.
News & World Report ranked the hospital #2 in the St.
Louis metro area.
The Inpatient Surgical floor at Missouri Baptist Medical Center is a 68-bed unit providing treatment interventions to primarily post-surgical patients.
This unit also includes has a 10-bed Surgical Complex wing.
Role Purpose Provides direct patient care activities including assessment, diagnosis, planning implementation, and evaluation within the guidelines of the standards of nursing care.
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