RN - Women's Services

Company: SSM Health
Location: Oklahoma City
Posted on: September 30, 2024

Job Description:

Manage women's services activities, workflow, and nursing resources in a dynamic healthcare environment, promoting woman-, newborn-, and family-centered care.






Collects and analyzes health data to develop individualized plans of care, ensuring expected outcomes for women and newborns.

• Coordinates care delivery to promote woman-, newborn-, and family-centered care within scope of practice.
  
• Employs health teaching strategies to promote, maintain, or restore health in a safe environment.
  
• Evaluates progress toward expected outcomes in the context of woman, newborn, and family-centered care.
  
• Determines decisions and actions on behalf of women, fetuses, and newborns in an ethical manner.
  
• Practices in a manner congruent with cultural diversity and inclusion principles when caring for women, newborns, and families.
  
• Communicates and collaborates with women, families, healthcare providers, and the community to provide safe and holistic care.
  
• Serves as a role model, change agent, consultant, and mentor to women, families, healthcare consumers, and other healthcare professionals.
  
• Acquires and maintains knowledge and competencies that reflect current evidence-based nursing practice for women, newborns, and families.
  
• Generates or integrates evidence to identify, examine, validate, and evaluate interprofessional knowledge, theories, and varied approaches in providing care to women and newborns.
  
• Practices, evaluates, and implements new measures to improve the quality of nursing practice for women and newborns.
  
• Evaluates own nursing practice and participates in the evaluation of others in relation to current evidence-based consumer care information, professional practice standards and guidelines, statutes, rules and regulations.
  
• Considers resource factors related to safety, effectiveness, technological advances, and fiscal responsibility when planning and delivering care to women and newborns.
  
• Practices in an environmentally safe and healthy manner when planning and delivering care to women, newborns, and families.
  
• Applies existing body of evidence-based practice and scientific knowledge in healthcare to women's services nursing practice.
  
  
  
  Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner, performing other duties as assigned.
  
  
  
  Education: Graduate of accredited school of nursing or education equivalency for licensing.
  
  
  
  Experience: No experience required.
  
  
  
  Physical Requirements:
  
  
• Constant use of speech to share information through oral communication.
  
• Constant standing and walking.
  
• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
  
• Frequent sitting, reaching, and keyboard use/data entry.
  
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
  
• Frequent use of smell to detect/recognize odors.
  
• Frequent use of hearing to receive oral communication, distinguish body sounds and/or hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
  
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
  
• Occasional lifting/moving of patients.
  
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting, gripping, and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
  
• Occasional driving.
  
• Rare crawling and running.
  
  
  
  
  Required Professional License and/or Certifications:
  
  
• Basic Life Support Healthcare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA).
  
• Registered Professional Nurse (RN) - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR).
  
• Advanced Life Support (ALS) - American Heart Association (AHA).
  
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) - American Academy Pediatrics (AAP).
  
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) - American Heart Association (AHA).
  
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Essentials - American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
  
  
  
  
  State of Work Location:
  
  
• Illinois.
  
• Missouri.
  
• Oklahoma.
  
• Wisconsin.
  
  
  
  
  Work Shift:
  
  
• Day Shift (United States of America).
  
  
  
  
  Job Type:
  
  
• Regular.
  
  
  
  
  Employee Department:
  
  
• Scheduled Weekly Hours: 36.
  
  
  
  
  SSM Health is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
  
  
  
  Benefits:
  
  
• Paid Parental Leave: We offer eligible team members one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE).
  
• Flexible Payment Options: Our voluntary benefit offered through DailyPay provides eligible hourly team members instant access to their earned, unpaid base pay (fees may apply) before payday.
  
• Upfront Tuition Coverage: We provide upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members.
  
  

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