Charge Nurse (RN) - Cardiac PCU

salary $27.40 per hour |

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clock September 11th, 2025

  • building BJC HealthCare
  • location St Louis, MO
  • salary $27.40 per hour
  • suitcase FULL_TIME
  • clock September 11th, 2025

Charge Nurse (RN) - Cardiac PCU - Progressive Care Unit - $34-49 per hour at BJC HealthCare summary:

A Charge Nurse (RN) in the Cardiac Progressive Care Unit at Barnes-Jewish Hospital leads patient care for post-surgical thoracic patients, coordinates staffing, and ensures regulatory compliance. This role requires clinical expertise, leadership in team management, and the ability to implement evidence-based nursing practices. The position supports professional development within a Magnet-recognized hospital and offers a comprehensive benefits package including shift differentials and sign-on bonuses.

BJC HealthCare is seeking a Cardiac PCU - Progressive Care Unit Charge Nurse (RN) for a nursing job in Saint Louis, Missouri.

Job Description Requirements

  • Specialty:Cardiac PCU - Progressive Care Unit
  • Discipline:RN
  • Duration:Ongoing
  • Employment Type:Staff

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Additional Information About the Role

Are you an RN interested in growing your career at an award winning hospital? Apply today as a Thoracic Surgery Stepdown Charge Nurse at Barnes Jewish Hospital!

  • Up to a $10,000 Sign On Bonus for Eligible External Candidates!
  • Great Leadership Opportunity!
  • Benefits Eligible - Pension Plan Retirement
  • (3) 12 Hour Shifts - 7:00pm-7:30am
  • Shift Differentials for Nights/Weekends/Holidays
  • BSN Differential
  • $5/hr Med/Surg Differential

Additional Preferred Requirements

  • Charge Nurse Experience Preferred, but Not Required
  • Accept ADN/BSN/MSN Candidates

BJC Career Ladder

  • The BJC RN Career Ladder differentiates BJC as the place for nurses to work in the greater St. Louis area.
  • This is a tool to empower nurses to work at the top of their license and own their career progression.
  • The BJC RN Career Ladder promotes professional development, leadership, collaboration, education, and service excellence and gives staff the opportunity to continue doing what they do best - caring for patients - while having the opportunity to advance to the next step in their career.
  • Moves to higher ladder levels will result in a percentage increase of current pay that aligns with the new job description.

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Charge Nurse/ Team Lead Registered Nurse needed to care for post-surgical Thoracic patients. May occasionally take patients if needed. Duties include patient bed placement, assisting with staffing and assignments, chart and regulatory audits and assistance with orientation and training.

Thoracic Surgery Stepdown Registered Nurses care for post-surgical thoracic patients.( Thoracotomies, pneumonectomy, esophagectomy, lung transplant, lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS), thymectomy, nissen fundoplication and hellar myotomy. Nurses in this environment possess strong critical thinking skills and are able to make autonomous decisions. Nurses also have the opportunity to be involved in the patients progress from the immediate post-op period through discharge.

Overview

Barnes-Jewish Hospitalat Washington University Medical Center is the largest hospital in Missouri and is ranked as one of the nations top hospitals by U.S. News World Report. Barnes-Jewish Hospitals staff is composed of full-time academic faculty and community physicians of Washington University School of Medicine, supported by a house staff of residents, interns, fellows and other medical professionals. Recognizing its excellence in nursing care, Barnes-Jewish Hospital was the first adult hospital in Missouri to be certified as a Magnet Hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

Thoracic Surgery is a fast paced surgical stepdown unit with 6 PCU beds and 18 floor beds. We care for complex thoracic surgeries, including lung transplant, thoracotomy, esophagectomy, thymectomy, hiatal hernia repair. We are a Dedicated Education Unit, specializing in training nurses. This unit provides experience for nurses who are interested in promoting to critical care, including hemodynamic monitoring, IV drip titration, chest tube management and critical thinking skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Role Purpose

Under the direction of manager, plans, directs, and coordinates activities of a unit on a designated shift. Performs direct patient care as needed and functions as clinical resource to nursing and support staff. Assesses, plans, evaluates and documents the nursing process of assigned unit as needed.

Responsibilities

  • Facilitates identification and resolution of gaps in care from hospitalization, at discharge, and into the ambulatory care setting. Critically assess patient data to proactively mitigate impending changes in condition and establishes consults to interprofessional team as appropriate.
  • Leads the development and implementation of complex individual plans of care with defined goals in collaboration with other members of the interprofessional team and the patient, family, or caregiver in accordance with the established guidelines and standards of nursing care. Plan of care reflects application of expert holistic clinical knowledge and skill to anticipate and prioritize complex care needs, anticipate barriers, incorporating interprofessional team and caregiver/family input, and identifies opportunities to improve patient outcomes.
  • Actively utilizes and champions scientific inquiry for evidence-based practices (e.g., participates in journal club, facilitates practice change based on new knowledge, recommends new standards of care or revisions to current standards, conduct a literature search to support unit or organizational goals, disseminate new knowledge obtained from relevant conference or continuing education). Explore opportunities to advance nursing practice (e.g., support a community service health event as a representative of the healthcare profession, patient/family education group, community advisory board, member of Ethics Advisory Committee, serve as adjunct faculty, leadership board in specialty organization).
  • Analyzes gap in practice standards and provides feedback to peers in collaboration with leadership to enhance safe patient care. Leads the evaluation of the patient and family experience, and adjusts care provided to improve patient satisfaction and quality of care.
  • BJC has determined this is a safety-sensitive position. The ability to work in a constant state of alertness and in a safe manner is an essential function of this job.
  • Minimum Requirements

    Education

  • Nursing Diploma/Associates
  • - Nursing

    Experience

  • 2-5 years
  • Supervisor Experience

  • No Experience
  • Licenses Certifications

  • RN
  • Preferred Requirements

    Education

  • Bachelors Degree
  • - Nursing

    Experience

  • 5-10 years
  • Benefits and Legal Statement

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    At BJC were committed to providing you and your family with benefits and resources to help you manage your physical, emotional, social and financial well-being.

    • Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date
    • Disability insurance paid for by BJC
    • Pension Plan/403(b) Plan funded by BJC
    • 401(k) plan with BJC match
    • Tuition Assistance available on first day
    • BJC Institute for Learning and Development
    • Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
    • Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time
    • Adoption assistance

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    Not all benefits apply to all jobs

    The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this position. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Equal Opportunity Employer

    BJC HealthCare Job ID #86047. Posted job title: Cardiothoracic PCU Charge Nurse

    About BJC HealthCare

    BJC HealthCare is one of the largest nonprofit health care organizations in the United States, delivering services to residents primarily in the greater St. Louis, southern Illinois and southeast Missouri regions. With net revenues of $6.3 billion and more than 30,000 employees, BJC serves patients and their families in urban, suburban and rural communities through its 14 hospitals and multiple community health locations. Services include inpatient and outpatient care, primary care, community health and wellness, workplace health, home health, community mental health, rehabilitation, long-term care and hospice.

    BJC is the largest provider of charity care, unreimbursed care and community benefits in the state of Missouri. BJC and its hospitals and health service organizations provide $785.9 million annually in community benefit. That includes $410.6 million in charity care and other financial assistance to patients to ensure medical care regardless of their ability to pay. In addition, BJC provides additional community benefits through commitments to research, emergency preparedness, regional health care safety net services, health literacy, community outreach and community health programs and regional economic development.

    Benefits

    • Sign-On bonus

    Keywords:

    Charge Nurse, Cardiac PCU, Progressive Care Unit, Post-Surgical Care, Thoracic Surgery, Registered Nurse, Patient Care Coordination, Nursing Leadership, Critical Thinking, Healthcare Nursing

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