RN Spine Center; Registered Nurse

Yale New Haven Health•New Haven, CT

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 support of the organization’s 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 demonstrates leadership, delegation, collaboration, effective communication, and accountability for quality outcomes. Care includes establishing and maintaining therapeutic relationships with patients and families; integrating cultural diversity into practice; collaborating with patients, families, and healthcare team members; and respecting patients’ values, preferences, expressed needs, and knowledge when collecting data, developing outcomes, and evaluating care. The RN delivers care through the nursing process, including assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, implementation, coordination of care, health teaching, health promotion, and evaluation. The role also includes professional activities related to ethics, culturally congruent practice, communication, collaboration, leadership, education, evidence-based practice and research, quality, professional practice evaluation, resource utilization, and environmental health.

Requirements

Graduation from an accredited school of nursing.
Current licensure and registration as a nurse in the State of Connecticut.
Current BCLS certification, or obtain certification within one month of hire.
Ability to perform prolonged standing and walking and use sight, hearing, and touch.
Ability to frequently bend, reach, push, pull, twist, and lift.
Ability to assist with pushing, pulling, or lifting patients weighing from 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 attain expected outcomes.
Implement identified plans of care.
Coordinate care delivery and transitions in care.
Use strategies to promote health and a safe environment.
Evaluate progress toward attaining outcomes.
Practice ethically and in a manner consistent with cultural diversity and inclusion principles.
Communicate effectively in all areas of practice and collaborate with healthcare consumers and other stakeholders.
Provide leadership appropriate to the professional practice setting, education, and position.
Seek knowledge and competence reflecting current nursing practice and integrate evidence and research findings into practice.
Contribute to quality nursing practice and evaluate one’s own and others’ nursing practice.
Use appropriate resources to provide and sustain safe, effective, evidence-based, and fiscally responsible nursing services.
Practice in an environmentally safe and healthy manner.
Maintain therapeutic relationships and collaborate with patients, families, and healthcare team members while respecting patients’ values and preferences.