Kiowa County Memorial Hospital strives to be the hospital and employer of choice in our community.

Our Mission: To be the trusted provider of choice for compassionate quality healthcare in the communities we serve.

Our Vision: Where healthcare and community meet.

We want YOU on our team! We strive to provide the best working environment for each employee at KCMH. We have gone to great lengths to ensure we can offer the highest level and highest quality positions in all of our departments. We work hard to build teams, not just hire individuals. We work daily to improve our operations and streamline success!

Along with some of the most competitive wages in the area, we offer many benefits to our employees such as:

· Medical and Dental Insurance: Individual, dependent, and family plans.

· Emergency Medical Transport plans.

· Health Savings Account (HSA)

· Healthcare Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

· Dependent Care FSA

· Vision Plan

· Employer Paid Benefits:

o Life and AD&D Insurance

o Dependent Life Insurance

o Short-Term Disability

o Long-Term Disability

o Employee Assistance Program

· Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance

· Hospital Indemnity Insurance

· Cancer Insurance

· Accident Insurance

· Critical Illness Insurance

· Legal Coverage Options

· Long-Term Care Insurance

· Social Security Alternate Retirement Plan

· Voluntary Savings Retirement Plan

Along with additional job perks rarely found in other healthcare locations!

· On-Site childcare for children under 6 at NO COST!

· Employee meals included during working shifts.

· On-Site wellness center with high quality gym equipment.

· Waived clinic co-pays for employees and dependents covered under the in house insurance plan.

And just a few additional options to fit when the right candidate needs them:

· Tuition assistance.

· In house skills training.

· Some certifications offered in house.

· Cross department placement and training where appropriate.

· Continuing Education opportunities.

Please see the job description below to find out if you are the right match for our team!

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Job Description:

POSITION

Registered Nurse

SUMMARY

Under general supervision, plans, directs, and evaluates total nursing care and functions in one unit on a particular shift established philosophy. Responsible for orientation, training, and management of personnel. Relates effectively with other shifts for continuity of care, maintains satisfactory relations with other departments and nursing units; participates in all phases of education, maintenance of records, and upgrading of policies, procedures, and skills.

EDUCATION

Graduate of an accredited school of nursing

Current Kansas License to practice professional nursing.

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

Experience is not required but preferred.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Use common sense and special medical skills to care for the sick or handicapped.
• Understand technical information from supervisors, charts, reference books, manuals, and labels.
• Use eyes hands and fingers with skill.
• Work fast in an emergency.
• Communicate with people when they are sick, disabled, or nervous.
• Change from one duty to another frequently.
• Follow instructions exactly.
• Record information exactly
• Possess thorough knowledge of nursing principles as well as hospital types of policies and procedures.
• Demonstrates ability to provide quality patient care.
• Communicates and works effectively with people.
• Possess the ability to assess patient’s needs, clinical, teaching, mental and spiritual.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provides the best possible nursing care by planning, organizing, and directing nursing functions of the patients on the unit.
• Must supervise and evaluate each patient’s nursing care, including care at a skilled nursing level in swing bed.
• Initiates and implements patient care plans.
• Makes nursing assignments appropriate to the skill level of the employees.
• Maintains acceptable standards of patient care.
• Identifies problems and guides personnel to their solution.
• Creates a working climate that provides growth and job satisfactory of personnel.
• Accurately and promptly implements physician’s orders.
• Administers medications and intravenous solutions skillfully and correctly wit licensing guidelines.
• Maintains the standards of accurate and complete recording and reporting.
• Arranges to have needed supplies and equipment on hand.
• Participates in planning changes and improvements.
• Participates in hospital safety programs.
• Supports and enforces infection-control policies and procedures.
• Is resourceful and calm in emergencies.
• Keeps DON informed of patient’s needs and problems on the nursing unit.
• Participates in orientation and in-service training for personnel.
• Evaluates the performance of personnel with recommendations for appropriate action.
• Assists in reviewing and revising policies and procedures.
• Maintains a professional approach with confidentiality.
• Displays concern and initiative.
• Observes and supports hospital policy.
• Is prompt and efficient with minimal absences.
• Cooperates and maintains good rapport with nursing staff, medical staff, other departments and visitors.
• Performs additional duties as assigned.
• This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. The incumbent is expected to perform other duties necessary for the effective operation of the Department.

SUPERVISION

Director of Nursing Service

Assistant Director of Nursing

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

Medium Work: Exerting 20 to50 pounds of force occasionally (occasionally: activity or condition exists up to 1/3 to 2/3 of the time and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly (Constantly: activity or condition exists 2/3 or more of the time) to move objects.

Reasoning Development: Apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.

Mathematical Development: Practical application of fractions, percentage ratios, proportion, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Reading: Read instructions, rules, etc., looking up unfamiliar words in the dictionary for meaning, spelling, and pronunciation.

Speaking: Speak clearly and distinctly with appropriate pauses and emphasis, correct pronunciation, variations in word order, using present, perfect, and future tenses.

ENVIRONMENTAL The indoor, general hospital environment

TRAINING AFTER HIRE

Training programs that apply to the position or enhance job performance will be required Hospital-wide in-service attendance will be required. BLS, ACLS, & PALS are required and maintained for employment and must be obtained within 6 months of initial hire date, TNCC/PHTLS are encouraged but not required.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, PRN, Permanent

Pay: From $40.00 per hour

Expected hours: 12 – 36 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Medical specialties:

• Hospital Medicine
• Primary Care

Physical setting:

• Acute care
• ER
• Hospital
• Inpatient
• Skilled nursing facility

Standard shift:

• Day shift
• Night shift

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus opportunities
• Differential pay

Supplemental schedule:

• Holidays
• On call
• Overtime

Weekly schedule:

• 3x12
• Monday to Friday
• Rotating weekends
• Weekends as needed

Work Location: In person