RN Primary Care

Sign-on bonus eligible!

At SSM Health, we know the healing power of presence begins with compassionate employees like you. 

As an RN, you’ve chosen a career where patients matter—a lot. 

As an RN in the family medicine department, you will assess and intervene complex patient care needs and act as an advocate for each patient. You may comfort patients and their families, encourage patients to improve, and fulfill other roles as needed. This position is scheduled for 36 hours a week as a day shift

At SSM Health, you can expect a work environment where: 

 
- Employees feel valued, respected and free to express themselves; 
- Each employee finds meaning in work, leveraging skills and talents toward a greater purpose; 
- Teamwork and collaboration is encouraged, while management is supportive. 

If you’re a patient advocate first… 
If you listen and respond with great care… 
If the needs, wants, and goals of each patient matter to you… 
Then we’d love to learn more! Please fill out your application today. 
Join a network of healthcare professionals just as kind and powerful as you.

Provides direct nursing care in accordance with established policies, procedures and protocols of the healthcare organization.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Implements and monitors patient care plans. Monitors, records and communicates patient condition as appropriate.
• Serves as a primary coordinator of all disciplines for well-coordinated patient care.
• Notes and carries out physician and nursing orders.
• Assesses and coordinates patient's discharge planning needs with members of the healthcare team.
• May round with physician in an inpatient setting.
• Applies the existing body of evidence-based practice and scientific knowledge in health care to nursing practice, ensuring that nursing care is delivered based on patient’s age-specific needs and clinical needs as described in the department's Scope of Service.
• As an SSM Health nurse, I will demonstrate the professional nursing standards defined in the professional practice model.  Uses the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses to guide his/her response to the current and evolving health and nursing needs of our patients and our patient populations.
• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Graduate of accredited school of nursing

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.