Registered Nurse - Rowley Family Birthing Center Resource Team

Garnet Health • Mechanicstown, NY

6h • Onsite

About The Position

At Garnet Health, the Hudson Valley’s leading integrated health system, you’ll find the perfect balance of a satisfying career and a rewarding lifestyle. Our focus is on patient-centric care with a collective of visionary leaders and dedicated and caring professionals working as a team to deliver the best for the people we serve. If you’re interested in a health system that’s both growing and award-winning, serving a diverse community that provides the best of both city and rural life, we invite to make your career home with us as a Registered Nurse on our Rowley Family Birthing Center Resources team at/in Garnet Health Medical Center Middletown. Garnet Health Medical Center clinical nurses are guided by the New York State Nurse Practice Act, the American Nurses Association (ANA) guide to the Code of Ethics for Nurses, the Essential Guide to Nursing Practice, Jean Watson’s Nursing Philosophy and Science of Caring, the Garnet Health Medical Center Plan for Nursing Quality and Safety, and the Garnet Health Medical Center Nursing Strategic Plan (NSP). Clinical nurses are empowered to work toward an improved healthcare system by providing safe, timely, effective, equitable, and patient centered care (IOM). At Garnet Health, we are committed to supporting your career growth and professional potential. We are responsive, attentive and dedicated to the success and satisfaction of our team members. Our inclusive and diverse team culture encourages you to contribute your exceptional talents, skills and perspectives to the success of our system, one another, our communities and our patients.

Requirements

• Active New York State Nursing License in good standing
• Associate Degree in Nursing from an Accredited School of Nursing
• Recent inpatient labor and delivery or mother baby experience (within 5 years) or 3 years recent OB outpatient experience
• For eligible candidates for the GHMC Maternal Child Health Orientation Program: 2 years Medical-Surgical OR 1 year Critical Care Experience
• NRP within 3 months of hire or transfer
• ACLS within 6 months of hire or transfer
• Evidence of Fetal Monitoring course completion
• C-EFM within 36 months after completion of unit orientation
• BLS certification
• Considerable standing, walking, reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, crouching
• Considerable visual demands
• Ability to perform RN essential physical functioning demands as determined by Employee Health / Pre-Screening Assessment
• Ability to use assistive devices for patient transferring tasks if lifting more than 35 lbs of a patient's weight
• Ability to handle moderate to frequent heavy ergonomic stressors (lifting, positioning, pushing, and/ or transferring of patients)
• Must participate in Safe Patient Handling Initiatives
• Ability to foster collaborative relationships
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Ability to organize and synthesize new information and prioritize tasks
• Possess critical thinking, analytical skills and flexibility
• Ability to multi-task
• Required detailed attention to work in an environment where interruptions cannot be controlled
• Demonstrates sensitivity to customer needs and expectations

Nice To Haves

• Baccalaureate, Master’s, or Doctorate Degree in Nursing from an Accredited School of Nursing
• American Nurses Association endorsed Certifications or Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses Certification (Based on Certification specialty hours of work requirement)
• NCC Specialty Certification: Inpatient Obstetrics, Maternal Newborn/Low risk newborn and/or EFM
• Stable course training

Responsibilities

• Protect, promote, and optimize health and abilities.
• Prevent illness and injury.
• Alleviate suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response.
• Advocate in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations.
• Work toward an improved healthcare system by providing safe, timely, effective, equitable, and patient centered care.
• Provide a caring relationship that facilitates health and healing.
• Attend to the range of human experiences and responses to health and illness within the physical and social environments.
• Integrate assessment data with knowledge gained from an appreciation of the patient of the group.
• Apply scientific knowledge to the processes of diagnosis and treatment through the use of judgment and critical thinking.
• Advance professional nursing knowledge through scholarly inquiry.
• Influence social and public policy.
• Assure safe, quality, and evidence-based practice.
• Recognize the importance of patient/staff safety precautions as it relates to specific department and area of responsibility.
• Consistently utilize precautions and follow appropriate procedure to enhance patient/staff safety in daily operations.
• Identify and report any potentially dangerous situations which could cause medical error and/or patient or staff harm.
• Immediately take action, where appropriate, to minimize the risk of injury.
• Report errors, when these occur, to supervisor and in the MIDAS RDE system on an Incident report.
• Participate when appropriate in Root Cause Analysis and/or other efforts to reduce the risk of medical error and/or patient or staff harm.
• Complete annual / required mandatory training within certain time frames.
• Maintain current BLS training.
• Have appropriate additional AHA training prior to beginning the position in certain clinical areas.

Benefits

• Resources that will help you excel in your career
• Tuition reimbursement programs for your continued education
• Comprehensive health, dental and retirement benefits designed to fit your individual and family needs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees