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**City/State:** O'Fallon, Missouri

**Categories:** Nursing Services

**Job Status:** Full-Time

**Req ID** : 98430

**Pay Range:** $62,400.00 – $102,710.40 / year (Salary or hourly rate is based on job qualifications and relevant work experience)

Additional Information About the Role

+ Full-Time, Day Shift Position M-F

+ No Weekends, No Holidays, No call

+ Benefits Eligible

+ Diabetes experience preferred

+ CDCES preferred

+ The BJC Registered Nurse Career Ladder differentiates BJC as the place for nurses to work in the greater St. Louis area.

+ This is a tool to empower nurses to work at the top of their license and own their career progression.

+ The BJC RN Career Ladder promotes professional development, leadership, collaboration, education and service excellence and gives staff the opportunity to continue doing what they do best - caring for patients - while having the opportunity to advance to the next step in their career.

+ Moves to higher ladder levels will result in a percentage increase of current pay that aligns with the new job description.

Additional Preferred Requirements

Overview

Opened in 2007, **Progress West Hospital** is BJC HealthCare’s newest hospital in St. Charles County, featuring modern private rooms. It offers 24-hour emergency services and has partnered with St. Louis Children’s Hospital to provide world-class pediatric emergency care.

Progress West Hospital also provides surgical services, endoscopy services, a cardiac catheterization lab, medical/surgical inpatient services, diagnostic imaging, lab services, and the Advanced Wound Center, a specialty wound treatment facility with state-of-the-art equipment. Progress West Hospital recently completed an expansion of its Childbirth Center to include enhanced services for at-risk mothers and babies, with a newborn ICU that provides care for babies born as early as 32 weeks.

Progress West Hospital is a Certified Level II Stroke Center. The hospital’s medical office building houses offices for specialists in primary care, cardiology, obstetrics, pediatrics, and orthopedics.

The department of education supports the education of employees by providing programs to enhance skills as well as support leadership development. This department, along with all departments within the hospital, supports the guiding principles of the hospital in providing care that is customized and reflects the patient's needs, values, and choices.

Preferred Qualifications

Role Purpose

Provides Diabetes and Nutritional educational services and community resources for inpatients and outpatients. Maintains a case load of patients and promotes program development.

Responsibilities

+ Monitors patients response and modifies plan of care accordingly.

+ Provides accurate documentation as required.

+ Delivers direct patient care by assessing and evaluating patient's physical, psychosocial and emotional needs.

+ Develops and implements individual plans of care in accordance with the established guidelines and standards of nursing care.

+ Educates patients and their families on how to manage their condition.

Minimum Requirements

Education

+ Nursing Diploma/Associate's - Nursing/Nutrition/related

Experience

+ <2 years

Supervisor Experience

+ No Experience

Licenses & Certifications

+ RN

Preferred Requirements

Education

+ Bachelor's Degree - Nursing

Licenses & Certifications

+ Cert Diabetes Educator

Benefits and Legal Statement

BJC Total Rewards

At BJC we’re committed to providing you and your family with benefits and resources to help you manage your physical, emotional, social and financial well-being.

+ Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date

+ Disability insurance* paid for by BJC

+ Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution

+ 401(k) plan with BJC match

+ Tuition Assistance available on first day

+ BJC Institute for Learning and Development

+ Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

+ Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time

+ Adoption assistance

To learn more, go to our** **Benefits Summary** **.

*Not all benefits apply to all jobs

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this position. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Equal Opportunity Employer