PACU RN; 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’s professional role includes leadership, delegation, collaboration, effective communication, and ensuring quality outcomes. Care is guided by autonomy and accountability, evidence and data, and a focus on the patient and family. The RN establishes therapeutic relationships, incorporates cultural awareness and diversity into practice, collaborates with patients, families, and healthcare team members, and respects patients’ values, preferences, expressed needs, and knowledge when collecting data, setting outcomes, and evaluating care. 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 meets professional performance standards through ethical and culturally congruent practice, communication, collaboration, leadership, continued education, evidence-based practice and research, quality improvement, professional practice evaluation, responsible resource use, and environmental health practices.

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 meet the role’s physical demands, 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.
Advancement through the SPIRE clinical advancement program is encouraged.

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, including strategies and alternatives to attain 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 strategies.
Evaluate progress toward attaining 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 education and position, and remain accountable for professional actions.
Seek knowledge and competence reflecting current nursing practice; 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.
Establish therapeutic relationships and work collaboratively with patients, families, and healthcare team members.
Respect patient values, preferences, expressed needs, and knowledge in data collection, outcome formulation, and evaluation.