Medical Surgical Nurse
Phoenix, Arizona
- Eligibility
- RNMed surg
Posted Sep 11
What the listing says
Role
- Accepts
- RN
Ratio not posted. Ask in the interview.
Pay
- Similar roles post
- Similar AZ staff roles post $38/hr to $52/hr
AZ staff postings that state pay run $24/hr to $59/hr, the middle half $38/hr to $52/hr, across 377 postings.
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About this role
As our Medical Surgical Nurse at SJHMC- Westgate you’ll excel in your nursing career by providing care to patients admitted to our unit. Most of your patients are funneled in from other units providing you with the opportunity to build on your education and experience in specialized service lines such as cardiac, telemetry, orthopedics, neurology, critical care, surgical services, and emergency.
Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.
Your success in this role comes from your enthusiasm to help others - with a patient-first mindset. Keen assessment skills, critical thinking, and a sense of urgency support your career advancement and you thrive in a fast-paced clinical environment where you will rarely experience the same day twice.
- Administer medications, change dressings, monitor vital signs, and chart with timely documentation
- Collaborate with a variety of other healthcare professionals such as social work, care coordination, physical therapy, occupational therapy, lab, respiratory therapy, and imaging.
Sourced from CommonSpirit Health’s careers page.
Requirements
- Valid compact state or Arizona RN license (RN)
- Basic Life Support certification (BLS)
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification within 90 days of hire.
Benefits
- health/dental/vision
- FSA
- matching retirement plans
- paid time off
- tuition assistance
- adoption assistance
Place
- City
- Phoenix, Arizona
- Median rent
- $1,582/mo
- Local household income
- $81,332/yr
- Metro price level
- 3% above the national average
rent and tenant-paid utilities · Census ACS 2024
all local households, not nurse pay · Census ACS 2024
Phoenix area index 103.3, where 100 is the national average.
Phoenix drops you into the Sonoran Desert — hike Camelback Mountain before a sunrise shift, eat your way down Roosevelt Row, and settle among Arcadia's grapefruit trees. Cost of living sits about 3% above the national average. Trade snow shovels for trail runners year-round and plug into a valley-wide hospital network hungry for bedside RNs.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 metro Regional Price Parities · Census ACS 2024.
How this role fits you
About the employer
On your path
Med surg is open from year one. A broad first base while you learn which path pulls harder.
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