RN; Registered Nurse-Oncology Clinic Practice Fairfield

Yale New Haven Health•New Haven, CT

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About The Position

The Registered 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 RN establishes and maintains therapeutic relationships with patients and families, incorporates cultural diversity into practice, and collaborates and communicates with patients, families, and healthcare team members. Care respects patients’ values, preferences, expressed needs, and knowledge of their healthcare situation, and includes holistic data collection, individualized outcomes, and evaluation. The RN’s professional role includes leadership, delegation, collaboration, effective communication, and a focus on quality outcomes. Nursing practice is supported by evidence and data, with patients and families at the center. The role follows the ANA Standards of Practice and Standards of Professional Performance. The RN uses the nursing process to assess, diagnose, identify outcomes, plan and implement care, coordinate care and transitions, promote health and safety, and evaluate progress. The RN also practices ethically and in a culturally congruent manner; communicates and collaborates effectively; demonstrates leadership; pursues professional knowledge and competence; integrates evidence and research; contributes to quality practice; evaluates nursing practice; uses resources appropriately; and supports environmental health.

Requirements

Graduation from an accredited school of nursing.
Current licensure and registration as a registered nurse in the State of Connecticut.
Current BCLS certification, or obtain it within one month of hire.
Ability to perform the physical demands described, including prolonged standing and walking, frequent bending, reaching, pushing, pulling, twisting, and lifting, and assisting with patients weighing 5 to 300 pounds.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) preferred.
Clinical specialty certification highly encouraged.
RNs are encouraged to advance through the SPIRE clinical advancement program.

Responsibilities

Collect pertinent data and information about the healthcare consumer’s health or situation.
Analyze assessment data to determine actual and potential diagnoses or issues.
Identify expected outcomes for an individualized plan 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.
Promote health and a safe environment through health teaching and health promotion.
Evaluate progress toward outcomes.
Practice ethically and in a manner congruent with cultural diversity and inclusion principles.
Communicate effectively and collaborate with healthcare consumers and other key stakeholders.
Provide leadership appropriate to the professional practice setting, education, and position.
Seek 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, and respect their values, preferences, needs, and knowledge of their healthcare situation.