PCU - Clinical Nurse

Additional Information About the Role

• Fully supported leadership team
• Days or nights available
• Sign on bonus eligible!

Additional Preferred Requirements

Christian Hospital has been serving St.

Louis and the surrounding metro areas since 1903.

U.S.

News & World Report ranks Christian Hospital No.

5 in St.

Louis for overall clinical excellence and No.

9 in Missouri, which puts us in the top 6% of all hospitals in the state!

The U.S.

News adult methodology ranks clinical specialties and rates common care procedures and conditions.

Christian was nationally ranked as “high performing” in the clinical specialty of geriatrics and in the following seven of 21 common procedures and conditions: heart attack, heart failure, kidney failure, diabetes, COPD, pneumonia and stroke.

High performing in a specialty means we were in the top 10% nationally of all evaluated hospitals for that specialty or procedure and condition.

Northwest HealthCare, six miles west of Christian, offers 24- hour emergency care, the Sleep Disorders Center and a variety of outpatient diagnostic and imaging services.

Progressive Care Unit is a 40 bed unit dedicated primarily to the cardiac and pulmonary patient populations.  Unit has the ability to provide cardiac monitoring for all patients on the floor.  The unit is located on the 7th floor and has a  ten-bed Respiratory Care Unit for individuals with choric lung illnesses.  Progressive Care Unit is staffed by RN's, PCAs and clerical associates.

Role Purpose

Provides direct patient care activities including assessment, diagnosis, planning implementation, and evaluation within the guidelines of the standards of nursing care.

Responsibilities