The Opportunity:

Saint Luke’s East in Lee’s Summit is looking for a Wound Care Licensed Practical Nurse to join our highly supportive and collaborative team. In this role, you will have the opportunity to support patients in the outpatient setting at this location. You will initiate actions to improve practice, patient care and unit processes to ensure our vision, “The best place to get care. The best place to give care.” is maintained.

The Shift:

This is Monday through Friday day shift position. No Holidays or Weekends

The Work:

• Assist with departmental drills and surveys
• Serve as a day-to-day resource to colleagues at unit and departmental levels
• Deliver Hyperbaric Therapy
• Demonstrate increasing discriminatory judgment in interpreting data and prioritize appropriately
• Make Recommendations
• Responsible for telephone triage, patient flow, and coordination of patient care
• Collaborate with physicians
• Perform wound care assessments and therapies

Hyperbaric experience preferred but not required.

We are looking for a licensed practical nurse who enjoys collaborating with various professionals who are excited by teaching others and can work well independently. This position will require a lot of autonomy in your day-to-day work. Strong communication and ability to educate others is required to be successful in this position. If you love innovation, fast-paced environments, working with multidisciplinary teams, and helping other succeed, then this may be the position for you.

Why Saint Luke’s?

• Our leadership supports nurse engagement and allows their voices to be heard.
• The opportunity to make an impact on their unit, hospital, health system, and the healthcare industry.
• Various CEU, Continuing Education, Leadership and other career training available
• Career Advancement Program dedicated to RNs.
• Strong nurse governance and we encourage all of our RNs to participate
• Saint Luke’s offers competitive salaries and benefits packages to all of their employees, click here to find out more.
• We value our nurses’ knowledge, experience, and expertise to improve patient outcomes and quality care.

Job Requirements

Applicable Experience:

Less than 1 year

Basic Life Support RQI - Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI), Licensed Practical Nurse (MO) - National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NURSYS)

Job Details

Full Time

Day (United States of America)

The best place to get care. The best place to give care. Saint Luke’s 12,000 employees strive toward that vision every day. Our employees are proud to work for the only faith-based, nonprofit, locally owned health system in Kansas City. Joining Saint Luke’s means joining a team of exceptional professionals who strive for excellence in patient care. Do the best work of your career within a highly diverse and inclusive workspace where all voices matter.

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