Registered Nurse- Medical Intensive Care Unit

Beth Israel Lahey Health•Boston, MA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives. This role utilizes the nursing process as the frame of reference for practice as a professional registered nurse and provides direct nursing care to patients and families. The Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) specializes in the care of medical intensive care patients. Nurses in this unit care for patients with a wide variety of infectious disease, GI, cardiac, and respiratory conditions who require ventilator support and invasive pressure monitoring.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited Nursing Program required
1-3 years related work experience required
License Registered Nurse required
American Heart Association – Basic Life support Certificate required
Ability to make decisions that are guided by general instructions and practices requiring some interpretation
Ability to address problems that are varied, requiring analysis or interpretation of the situation using direct observation, knowledge and skills based on general precedents
Ability to follow precedents and procedures
Ability to set priorities and organize work within general guidelines
Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in written English with internal and external customers
Ability to comprehend and converse in English to communicate effectively with medical center staff, patients, families and external customers
Ability to demonstrate full working knowledge of standard concepts, practices, procedures and policies with the ability to use them in varied situations
Ability to act as a team leader for small projects or work groups, creating a collaborative and respectful team environment and improving workflows
Ability to provide a high level of customer service to patients, visitors, staff and external customers in a professional, service-oriented, respectful manner using skills in active listening and problem solving
Ability to remain calm in stressful situations
Competent to provide patient care to Neonatal: Birth to 6 months, Young adult: 16-30 years, Middle Age: 30 - 60 years, Elderly: 60 - over
Vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment

Nice To Haves

Baccalaureate degree in Nursing strongly preferred

Responsibilities

Provides direct care to patients and makes necessary nursing judgments
Responsible for systematically assessing the health care needs of individuals or groups and for the formulation of a care plan, its implementation and evaluation
Demonstrates the ability for decision making by integrating theoretical knowledge with practical experience in caring for patients
Coordinates the care of patients and directs assistive personnel in order to provide safe, effective, efficient, equitable and timely, patient-centered care
Demonstrates awareness of environmental forces on health care of patients and their families
Demonstrates the ability to identify resources necessary to implement the plan of care
Works in a collegial and collaborative relationship with other health professionals to determine healthcare needs of patients and families
Develops relationships with patients and families that maintain and communicate trust and respect
Communicates effectively in the exchange of information
Demonstrate the ability to act as a patient advocate
Maintains annual mandatory education requirements, which include emergency skills and unit based competencies
Identifies needs for continued growth and development in conjunction with the unit based educator or clinical nurse specialist
Participates in activities that contribute to professional development of self
May participate in quality improvement activities
Demonstrates a commitment to patients, staff, and to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own nursing practice and patient safety