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RN - General Surgery (Clinic)

CARLE • Urbana, IL 61801 • Posted 1 day ago

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In-person • Full-time • Mid Level

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The Ambulatory Nurse at CARLE focuses on providing healthcare to individuals, families, and communities within the scope of practice defined by the Illinois Board of Nursing. This role involves a systematic approach to nursing, incorporating assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation. The nurse ensures adherence to established standards of care, provides health and wellness education, acts as a preceptor, and leads initiatives to improve clinical outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Utilizes a systematic approach to nursing by incorporating assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
  • Provides healthcare to individuals, families, and communities within the RN scope of practice.
  • Ensures adherence to established standards of care and scope of practice.
  • Ensures documentation of care is complete and accurate.
  • Provides health and wellness education to individuals and groups.
  • Acts as preceptor and supports the development of other staff and healthcare students.
  • Provides leadership for initiatives designed to improve the quality of care or clinical outcomes.
  • Assists Nursing Supervisor/coordinator in the development of departmental standing orders.
  • Provides pre-operative education to surgical patients, including verbal instruction, appropriate printed education and documentation in the patient's medical record.
  • Assist physicians with office-based procedures.
  • Performs telephone triage of surgical patients and collaborates with the medical team to determine and execute plan of care for patient.
  • Collaboration with other departments and disciplines to direct care and interventions for surgical patients.
  • Collect and process patient specimens accurately.
  • Assessment of surgical wounds and appropriate dressing changes, including suture and/or staple removal.

About CARLE

Carle Health is a healthcare organization operating in Illinois, offering a wide range of services including clinical care, health insurance, research, and academics. They have a team of nearly 16,500 members providing high-quality care through eight hospitals, physician group practices, health insurance plans, and medical education institutions, with a focus on innovation, diversity, and community impact.

Full Job Description

Special Summer Incentive
*Sign on bonus - $5,000 for nurses with 1 or more years experience: External Applicants Only
*Free Health Insurance for the rest of the year
*Vacation accrual based on RN experience


***Flexible Scheduling Options: Monday-Friday 8A-5P OR 4 10 hour shifts Monday-Friday 7AM-5:30PM***


Compassionate, innovative, versatile, and skilled are the traits of the General Surgery Registered Nurse (RN). Are you looking to join a team that embraces diversity and encourages collaboration to deliver exceptional patient care?

You can become an essential member of our highly skilled and cohesive General Surgery team by demonstrating a focus on patients, effective communication, professionalism and teamwork. The General Surgery RN team is instrumental in providing patient education, triage, care coordination, for a diverse population of patients including elective and emergent general surgery, trauma, and our accredited weight loss surgery program.

General Surgery offers a wide variety of opportunities not only for personal and professional growth, but for work-life balance as well through flexible scheduling options. Come join the General Surgery team at a Magnet designated facility, ranked as one of America’s 50 Best, accredited by the MBSAQIP, where we utilize evidence-based practice and innovation to maintain the high quality standards of the Carle Health System. On this team, you are guaranteed to learn, grow, and feel welcome!

  • Provides and facilitates competent health care of patients and families in area of practice. Ensures adherence to established standards of care and scope of practice.
  • Ensures documentation of care is complete and accurate.
  • Provides health and wellness education to individuals and groups.
  • Acts as preceptor and supports the development of other staff and healthcare students.
  • Provides leadership for initiatives designed to improve the quality of care or clinical outcomes.
  • Assists Nursing Supervisor/coordinator in the development of departmental standing orders.
  • Provides pre-operative education to surgical patients, including verbal instruction, appropriate printed education and documentation in the patient's medical record
  • Assist physicians with office-based procedures
  • Performs telephone triage of surgical patients and collaborates with the medical team to determine and execute plan of care for patient
  • Collaboration with other departments and disciplines to direct care and interventions for surgical patients
  • Collect and process patient specimens accurately
  • Assessment of surgical wounds and appropriate dressing changes, including suture and/or staple removal