Administers care and education to patients and families through a virtual platform. Provides resources, education and leadership to the nursing caregivers and communicates interdepartmentally with the care team. The Connect Care Nurse will be located on the Good Samaritan campus and be an integral part of the patient care team.
Essential Job Duties:
1. Assess patient need for self-care instructions related to admission diagnosis or chronic disease process.
2. Collaborates with care team to develop the plan of care for patients requiring education and/or intervention.
3. Initiates instruction and promotes self-care.
4. Implements strategies to provide patient, significant other, and staff participation in health promotion.
5. Utilizes age specific criteria to provide education.
6. Documents in designated sections of computerized record (i.e. education, discharge).
7. Maintains communication both intra and interdepartmentally for continuity of care and patient education.
8. Seeks educational resources and creates learning experiences to enhance and maintain current knowledge and skills for his/her competence in nursing practice and individual professional growth.
Secondary Job Duties That May be Reassigned:
1. Performs other duties as needed or assigned.
Why Choose Good Samaritan?
For more than 115 years, Good Samaritan has been dedicated to not only providing trusted, industry-leading health care, but to fill a vital role in southwest Indiana and southwest Illinois. Our hospital continues to adhere to the compassionate principles our facility was founded on and further our commitments to our patients, our staff, and the communities we serve. Good Samaritan is well recognized for its commitment to excellence as a 4-time designated Magnet® facility, TJC Primary Stroke Center, and a Level III Trauma Center.
We would love to welcome you to our Good Samaritan family.
For more than 100 years, Good Samaritan has been a health care leader in southwestern Indiana and southeastern Illinois. Located in historic Vincennes, Good Samaritan is a 158-bed community health care facility with over 1,800 employees and a commitment to delivering exceptional patient care.
Good Samaritan offers a broad range of medical services as well as some of the most progressive technology available today. The Gibault Memorial Tower, opened in 2015, provides our patients, their families and our entire community an environment where the highest quality of care is provided. An array of services and staff are ready to greet patients with medical expertise, cutting-edge technology and big hearts. The tower has five floors, each with a focus: Cardiology and Clinical Decision, Intensive Care, Pediatrics and Medical Surgery, Joint Replacement and Medical Surgery, and Women’s Health and Oncology.
The hospital also has a state-of-the-art Same Day Surgery Center, with surgical suites designed with input from the hospital’s physicians.
The Cancer Pavilion is a 25,000-square-foot comprehensive oncology care center, featuring one of the most advanced methods for delivering radiation therapy, a linear accelerator with IMRT. The Pavilion also has 12 fully equipped infusion suites and other amenities for patients and families.
Good Samaritan is proud that generations of families have chosen us as their preferred health-care provider, allowing us to be the first, best place in health care.
Mission: Provide excellent health care by promoting wellness, education and healing through trusting relationships.
Vision: To be the regional center of excellence in health care to support the communities we serve.
Our Promise: We promise to treat you like family by delivering compassionate, high-quality care throughout your journey.
PRIDE Values
Patient | Respect | Integrity | Dignity | Excellence
