Primary Care RN - Per Diem Bowdoin Street
About The Position
The Primary Care RN uses the nursing process as the framework for professional practice and provides direct nursing care to patients and families in an outpatient setting. Training, evaluation, and competencies for the role are overseen by a Nurse Leader in the department. The nurse assesses health care needs, develops and implements care plans, evaluates outcomes, coordinates patient care, and directs assistive personnel. The role involves collaborating with health professionals, building trusting relationships with patients and families, communicating effectively, advocating for patients, and identifying resources needed to carry out care plans. The nurse maintains mandatory education and competencies, pursues professional development, and may participate in quality improvement activities. The position requires accountability for nursing practice and patient safety, and commitment to patients, staff, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The role serves patients in the listed age groups: neonatal (birth to 6 months), young adult (16–30 years), middle age (30–60 years), and elderly (60 years and older). It is classified as medium physical work, with standing or moving for most of the shift and exerting up to 50 pounds occasionally or up to 20 pounds frequently. The stated base hourly pay range is $37.00–$95.74. Staff are required to be vaccinated against influenza as a condition of employment.
Requirements
- Graduate from an accredited nursing program.
- Registered Nurse license required.
- American Heart Association Basic Life Support certification required.
- 1–3 years of related work experience required.
- Basic familiarity with computers and ability to navigate web-based applications at a basic level.
- Written and oral English communication skills sufficient to communicate with medical center staff, patients, families, and external customers.
- Competence to provide patient care to neonatal patients (birth to 6 months), young adults (16–30 years), middle-aged patients (30–60 years), and elderly patients (60 years and older).
- Ability to perform medium physical work: exert up to 50 pounds occasionally or up to 20 pounds frequently, and stand or move around through most of the shift.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in a teaching hospital.
- Expertise in a specialty area.
Responsibilities
- Provide direct patient care and make nursing judgments.
- Systematically assess health care needs of individuals or groups; formulate, implement, and evaluate care plans.
- Integrate theoretical knowledge and practical experience in patient-care decision making.
- Coordinate patient care and direct assistive personnel to support safe, effective, efficient, equitable, timely, patient-centered care.
- Recognize environmental forces affecting patients’ and families’ health care and identify resources needed to implement care plans.
- Collaborate with other health professionals to determine patients’ and families’ health care needs.
- Develop relationships with patients and families that maintain and communicate trust and respect.
- Communicate effectively and act as a patient advocate.
- Maintain annual mandatory education requirements, including emergency skills and unit-based competencies.
- Identify continued growth and development needs with the unit-based educator or clinical nurse specialist, and participate in professional development activities.
- May participate in quality improvement activities.
- Demonstrate accountability for nursing practice and patient safety, and commitment to patients, staff, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
