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Employment Type:Part timeShift:Evening ShiftDescription:An Opportunity to Join our Remarkable Care Team!Saint Joseph Mercy Health System, one of the nation's top health care services providers, spanning five counties in Southeastern Michigan. SJMHS represents more than 2,700 physicians and 14,000 nurses and staff, and includes 5 Hospitals, 5 Outpatient Health Centers, 8 Urgent Care Facilities and over 25 Specialty Centers. SJMHS is part of Trinity Health a national Catholic health system with an enduring legacy and a steadfast mission to be a transforming and healing presence within the communities we serve.As a mission-driven innovative health organization, we will become the national leader in improving the health of our communities and each person we serve. We will be the most trusted health partner for life. Our Core Values, Reverence, Commitment to the Poor, Justice, Stewardship, and Integrity guide our behaviors to help us achieve our Vision.DEPARTMENT DESCRIPTION:6-East is a Cardiology unit, which consists of 26 Intermediate Carebeds and 6 Cardiac Intensive Care beds. The Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) typically receives the critically ill cardiac patients, which would include patients having an ST elevation Myocardial Infarction, cardiogenic shock; post cardiac arrest requiring mechanical ventilation or therapeutic hypothermia. They also accept patients who require specialized equipment such as an Intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) or a Swan Ganz catheter, and patients who are hemodynamically unstable and require IV pressors. The CICU can also take the overflow patients from the Medical Intensive Care Unit or the Surgical Intensive Care Unit.SUMMARY:Provides quality patient centered care considering age specific, developmental, cultural and spiritual needs through competent clinical practice and application of the nursing process. Consistently integrates concepts of relationship based care into practice. Serves as a clinical and educational resource to others on the unit. Assumes accountability for nursing care of designated patients. Demonstrates unit/area-designated competenciesDUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES:Demonstrates excellent communication with team members:Takes initiative in reporting patient needs, abnormal findings and condition changes to RN
Actively participates in structured and informal handoffs
Performs purposeful hourly rounding
Promptly responds to patient requests
Performs nursing care as delegated by the RN in an effort to identify/attain treatment goals such as:Records/calculates intake and output, obtains weights
Applies support/orthopedic devices such as support hose and compression devices
Obtains routine vital signs, pain score and temperature
Assists the patient with: coughing, deep breathing, use of incentive spirometer, oral suctioning
Applies warm/cold therapies (heating pads, ice packs, cryocuff, hot ice machine and warm soaks)
Provides care of the restrained patient including general care, application of the restraint and ongoing monitoring of the restrained patient
Care and removal of Foley catheters
Routine oxygen therapy, pulse oximetry
Assist in preparing the body following death
Assists patient in completing ADLs including:Bathing, showering, toileting, positioning, turning, transferring & ambulation using assistive devices as needed and appropriate
Assists with feeding and menu selection
Distributes/collects nourishments and orders late trays
Answers call lights
Demonstrates sterile or aseptic technique as appropriate when performing delegated activities such as:Collects and sends specimens including blood and blood cultures
Obtains blood specimens from intermittent infusion devices, flushes intermittent infusion devices
Inserts and removes peripheral IV catheters (not to include regulating drip rate of infusion)
Competency based point of care testing such as blood glucose
Records patient information and required data in appropriate areas in order to meet documentation and charging requirements.
Assists in establishing and maintaining a patient care environment that is clean, safe, and conducive to patient/family well beingDocuments all patient belongings upon admission
Prepare patient room for arrival/ assists in transfers and or discharge of patients
Orients patient/family/visitors to patient room, unit, waiting area and facilities
Assists patient/family in the use of hospital equipment (telephone, lights television)
Makes occupied and unoccupied beds
Collects and disposes of soiled linen
Cleans and maintains equipment according to procedures
Provides wound and exit site care as delegated:Applies simple dressing to clean wounds of stage I or stage II depth (partial thickness) following assessment of the RN (does not include dressings that require topical ointments, gels, creams, packing or ace wraps)
Secures complex dressings that have been changed by other caregivers.
Performs PEG care and dressing changes
Completes delegated unit specific activities such as:Gathers post procedural data after initial nursing assessment such as vital signs, circumcision checks
Places patients on monitors/telemetry and maintains lead placement
Clean intermittent urinary catheterization
Checks/restocks unit emergency equipment/supplies and nurse servers
Trach care and trach suctioning
Performs other unit specific duties as delegated
Bottle feeds infants.
Assist new breastfeeding mother’s with latching and positioning of infant, set-up of breast pump and initiation of pumping
Completes and documents newborn hearing screen
Demonstrates effective organizational and time management skills that support patient and unit goals. Demonstrates cost effective use of unit resources such as supplies and equipment.
Seeks ongoing learning experiences by attending appropriate in-services, continuing education and mandatory programs.
Maintains good rapport and cooperative relationships with staff, patients, visitors and other team members. Approaches conflict in a constructive manner. Helps to identify problems, offer solutions, and participate in their resolution. Implements service recovery strategies as appropriate. Creates an environment that promotes customer satisfaction and the patient experience
Maintains the confidentiality of information acquired pertaining to patient, physicians, associates, and visitors to St. Joseph Mercy Health System. Discusses patient and hospital information only among appropriate personnel in private places. Follows all HIPAA policies and procedures.
Behaves in accordance with the Mission, Vision and Values of Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital. Demonstrates all SJMHS “Performance Standards: Focus on Others”. Fully integrates Relationship Based Care into role.
Follows all SJMHS policies and procedures including infection control (use of body substance isolation and use of personal protective equipment when in contact with body fluids).
Assumes responsibility for performance of job duties in the safest possible manner, to assure personal safety and that of coworkers. Reports all preventable hazards and unsafe practices immediately including near misses and actual errors
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:Education:High school diploma or GED
Experience:Minimum of one year of previous direct care experience (acute or long term) or successful completion of CENA, PCT, MA, or EMT course. Student nurses must have completed their nursing fundamentals class of a BSN program.
Required Skills and Abilities:Interpersonal skills necessary to effectively communicate with patients, families, and other employees
Ability to:Follow instructions and record patient information.
Prioritize assigned tasks and organize work.
Walk and stand for 90% of shift.
Lift, turn, and position patients.
Concentrate and pay close attention to details for over 90% of time
Able to work in area with potential exposure to infectious agents and/or contaminants.
Basic computer skills such as use of e-mail and simple word processing
Maintains AHA Heartsaver certification
Why this position What can it do for you!Located in the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti, Michigan with easy access to US-23, M-14, and I-94.
Full benefits package
Medical
Dental
Vision
Paid Time Off
Retirement Savings Plan with employer contribution option
Tuition Reimbursement
Life Insurance
Short/Long Term Disability
Opportunity for growth and advancement throughout Trinity Health in 22 different states!
Free close proximity parking!
For more information regarding career opportunities with Saint Joseph Mercy Health System please visit www.stjoeshealth.org/careers .Successful candidate will be subject to mandatory vaccinations/immunizations unless they qualify for an available exemption.This document is intended to describe the generalized duties and responsibilities, the specialized job functions, and the essential requirements of this job. It is not intended to be an exhaustive statement of all supplemental duties, responsibilities, or non-essential requirements or reflect any accommodations made under the American’s with Disability Act, the Michigan Handicapper’s Act, or SJMHS’s Return to Work Program.Our Commitment to Diversity and InclusionTrinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.