REGISTERED NURSE-Ambulatory Introperative (No weekends/holidays)

Yale New Haven Health•Trumbull, CT

34d

About The Position

The Registered Professional Nurse (RN) is an integral member of the Yale New Haven Health System healthcare team and provides patient-centered care in accordance with the YNHHS mission, vision, values, and strategic initiatives. The RN practices within the legal and ethical framework established by the Connecticut Nurse Practice Act, the American Nurses Association Scope and Standards for Nursing Practice, the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses, and the YNHHS Professional Practice Model. The role emphasizes leadership, delegation, collaboration, effective communication, and quality outcomes. Nurses use evidence and data to guide practice, with patients and families at the center of care. Care includes establishing therapeutic relationships, incorporating cultural awareness and diversity, collaborating with patients, families, and healthcare team members, and respecting patients’ values, preferences, expressed needs, and knowledge of their healthcare situation. RN practice follows the ANA Standards of Practice, including assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, implementation, coordination of care, health teaching and promotion, and evaluation. The RN also follows the ANA Standards of Professional Performance, including ethical and culturally congruent practice, communication, collaboration, leadership, education, evidence-based practice and research, quality of practice, professional practice evaluation, resource utilization, and environmental health. The RN is accountable for professional actions and is expected to engage in role activities appropriate to their education and position. The position requires a minimum of two years of intra-operative, multi-specialty RN experience. Scrubbing experience, EPIC EMR experience, and CNOR certification are preferred. The job title indicates no weekends or holidays.

Requirements

Graduation from an accredited school of nursing.
Current Connecticut registered nurse license.
Minimum of 2 years of intra-operative multi-specialty RN experience.
Current BCLS certification, or obtain it within one month of hire.
Ability to meet the physical demands of the role, including prolonged standing and walking; use of sight, hearing, and touch; frequent bending, reaching, pushing, pulling, twisting, and lifting; and assisting with pushing, pulling, or lifting patients weighing 5 to 300 pounds.

Nice To Haves

BSN preferred.
Clinical specialty certification highly encouraged.
Scrubbing experience preferred.
EPIC EMR experience preferred.
CNOR certification preferred.
Advancement through the SPIRE clinical advancement program is encouraged.

Responsibilities

Collect pertinent patient health and situational data.
Analyze assessment data to determine actual and potential diagnoses or issues.
Identify expected outcomes for individualized plans of care.
Develop and modify plans of care to achieve expected outcomes.
Implement the identified plan of care.
Coordinate care delivery and transitions in care.
Use strategies to promote health and a safe environment.
Evaluate progress toward the attainment of outcomes.
Practice ethically and in a manner congruent with cultural diversity and inclusion principles.
Communicate effectively and collaborate with patients and other stakeholders.
Provide leadership within the professional practice setting and the nursing profession, as appropriate to education and position.
Maintain knowledge and competence reflecting current nursing practice.
Integrate evidence and research findings into practice and contribute to quality nursing practice.
Evaluate own and others’ nursing practice.
Use appropriate resources to plan, provide, and sustain safe, effective, evidence-based, and fiscally responsible nursing services.
Practice in an environmentally safe and healthy manner.
Establish and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients and families, incorporating cultural understanding and diversity.
Work collaboratively with patients, families, and healthcare team members, while respecting patients’ values, preferences, expressed needs, and knowledge of their healthcare situation.