Registered Nurse
Description
Up to $15,000 Sign-On Bonus
Location: Mercy Cedar Rapids Downtown Campus
Schedule: Monday–Friday | Day shifts | Minimal rotating call
Hours: 40 hours/week — Full-time pay & benefits
Digestive/ Endoscopy Unit: Rapidly growing service line with opportunities to grow and expand your skills
A Rare Opportunity in Endoscopy
Are you an RN looking for a rewarding weekday role where you can build specialized skills while enjoying a predictable schedule? Join Mercy Cedar Rapids’ rapidly growing Endoscopy team at our Digestive Health Center!
Our Endoscopy unit is expanding, creating an exciting opportunity for an RN to become part of a close-knit, high-functioning team focused on providing exceptional care to patients throughout their procedural experience.
With Monday–Friday day shifts and minimal rotating call, this is an opportunity to grow your career while maintaining the work-life balance that can be difficult to find in procedural nursing.
Why Choose Mercy Cedar Rapids?
- Rapidly growing Endoscopy unit with opportunities to learn and grow
- Consistent Monday–Friday day-shift schedule — excellent for work-life balance
- Minimal rotating call
- Full-time pay and benefits with a $15,000 sign-on bonus
- Supportive, team-based culture where your voice matters
- Opportunity to develop specialized Endoscopy nursing skills
- Independent and locally managed for over 120 years
- Join a collaborative team committed to safe, compassionate, patient-centered care
What You’ll Do
As an RN in the Endoscopy unit, you will:
- Deliver safe, high-quality, patient-centered care before, during, and after procedures
- Monitor patients and recognize changes in condition, responding appropriately
- Collaborate closely with physicians, anesthesia, and the multidisciplinary procedural team
- Demonstrate critical thinking and anticipate patient and procedural needs
- Assist with the safe and efficient flow of patients through the Endoscopy experience
- Maintain a safe, clean, and organized procedural environment
- Ensure accurate and complete patient documentation
- Educate and support patients and families throughout their procedure
- Contribute to a respectful, compassionate, and team-focused culture
- Take advantage of opportunities to expand your knowledge and expertise as the Endoscopy service continues to grow
Ready to Grow With Us?
If you’re looking for a Monday–Friday nursing opportunity, a supportive team, and the chance to grow with a rapidly expanding Endoscopy unit, Mercy Cedar Rapids may be the place for you.
Keep reading for the full job description and complete your application today!
Work Shift
Day
Scheduled Weekly Hours
40
Summary
This position supports Mercy's philosophy of patient centered care by being a competent, respectful, and compassionate professional who is able to safely, appropriately, accurately, efficiently and independently follow Mercy's standards along with policies and procedures while caring for patients. The Registered Staff Nurse works with the unit specific team members to identify clinical problems, develop a plan, and educate patients and families.
Job Description
Job Duties
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Ensures that accurate and clinically relevant information is communicated with patients, their families, and co-workers at hand offs and other times as needed. Take all measures necessary to ensure that the appropriate and involved parties have communicated necessary information in order to allow for the best possible patient outcome.
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Demonstrates competent assessment, planning, intervention, coordination and evaluation skills based on the individual patient plan of care.
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Continually assesses patient and family needs in order to provide quality care based on a patient centered care model.
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Demonstrates critical thinking skills and judgment necessary to implement a patient plan of care, nursing interventions and procedures.
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Maintains accurate and real time documentation of nursing care provided to ensure the integration of information for use by the healthcare team, according to hospital policy and procedure related to documentation parameters.
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Functions as a role model for current and new staff by creating a healthy work environment to facilitate the department's or unit's ability to meet identified goals and objectives.
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Demonstrates respect and regard for the dignity of all patients, families, visitor and fellow employees to ensure a professional, responsible and courteous environment.
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Directs other licensed and non-licensed personnel in the provision of care to patients as assigned.
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Demonstrate effective and age-appropriate communication as well as the ability to understand the needs of the patient including non-verbal communication, fears, anxieties and language/cultural barriers.
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Responds within scope of practice to emergencies and life-threatening conditions.
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Adheres to and promotes patient safety practices throughout the patient experience.
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Communicates and collaborates effectively with all members of the healthcare team.
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Provides ongoing education to patients and families. Delegates to other staff registered nurse, licensed practical nurses, certified nursing assistants, patient care technicians, unit secretaries, and other staff positions specific to the department.
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Remains current on Evidence-based practice as well as appropriate Protocols and Procedures.
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Follows Mercy's safety guidelines, carries out job-specific safety duties and responsibilities, and promptly reports any unsafe conditions, situations, incidents and injuries.
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Department Specific Duties
Behavioral Health (for assigned position within the Healing Center)
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Assesses and reassesses Suicide Risk, per policy, utilizing the tools provided and adapts the plan of care with appropriate interventions based upon assessment.
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De-escalates patients in crisis to prevent acts of aggression towards self and others. Conducts psycho educational groups as needed and/or educates one to one on diagnosis, symptom management, medication, wellness, and positive coping skills.
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Monitors for withdrawal from alcohol and other substances and follows protocols and utilizes appropriate interventions based upon assessment.
Birthplace
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Performs Surgical Assistant duties as needed.
Postpartum Care:
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Demonstrates appropriate care and knowledge including assessment of and interventions for pain, fundus, lochial flow, perineum, incision, vital signs, blood loss, teaching needs, bonding and psychosocial situations.
Breastfeeding Support:
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Demonstrates appropriate care and knowledge including assessment of and interventions for latch, adequate feedings, sore nipples and feeding cues.
Newborn Care:
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Demonstrates appropriate care and knowledge which includes assessment and interventions for pain, gestational age, near-term infants, jaundice, temp instability, respiratory status, hypoglycemia, newborn screen, hearing screens, Hugs, signs and symptoms of sepsis and abnormalities.
Labor & Delivery:
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Demonstrates appropriate care and knowledge including assessment and interventions for admission to labor, labor pain management, epidural management, SVE's, determining if a patient is in labor, fetal monitor assessment, signs and symptoms of risk factors, PIH, preterm labor, pushing, delivery and immediate postpartum care.
OR Team Leader:
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Demonstrates appropriate care and knowledge of perioperative care including assisting anesthesia and post-anesthesia care.
OR Circulator:
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Circulates in the OB OR including preparing the patient for surgery and assisting with counts.
Lactation Consultant:
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Performs lactation rounds on nursing mothers daily and develops feeding plans when indicated, performs outpatient visits and weight checks with appropriate interventions and responds to the lactation line in a timely and efficient manner.
Home Visit:
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Completes assessment of the mother and newborn in a home setting and mak