Registered Nurse (OR) Operating Room West, 40 hours

Beth Israel Lahey Health • Boston, MA

122d

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. OR West consists of 10 operating rooms and focuses on Inpatient Level I Trauma Surgery. The team cares for patients undergoing a wide variety of surgical procedures including bariatric, neurosurgery, ENT, orthopedic trauma, spine, major plastic reconstruction, robotic surgery, and kidney and liver transplants. Staff work 8, 10 or 12 hour shifts and cover call on off-shifts, weekends and holidays.

Requirements

• Graduate from an accredited Nursing Program required.
• Baccalaureate degree in Nursing strongly preferred.
• License Registered Nurse required.
• Certificate 1 Basic Life Support required.
• 1-3 years related work experience required.
• Basic familiarity with computers.
• Ability to navigate at a basic level within web-based applications.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a teaching hospital and specialty area expertise.

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.

Benefits

• Comprehensive compensation and benefits.
• Support for achieving a healthy and balanced life.

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees