REGISTERED NURSE-Medicine/Telemetry RN
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 nursing care in accordance with the Connecticut Nurse Practice Act, ANA Scope and Standards for Nursing Practice, ANA Code of Ethics, and the YNHHS Professional Practice Model. The RN supports the organization’s mission, vision, values, and strategic initiatives, and contributes to coordinated, comprehensive care and quality improvement at Bridgeport Hospital. The RN establishes therapeutic relationships with patients and families, integrates cultural awareness and diversity into practice, and collaborates with patients, families, and healthcare team members. Care is guided by autonomy and accountability, with the patient and family at the center of practice. The role includes leadership, delegation, communication, collaboration, and accountability for quality outcomes. The RN uses the nursing process to assess patients, identify diagnoses and expected outcomes, develop and implement individualized care plans, coordinate care and transitions, promote health and safety, and evaluate progress. The RN also meets professional performance standards involving ethical and culturally congruent practice, communication, collaboration, leadership, education, evidence-based practice and research, quality, practice evaluation, resource use, 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 it 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 relevant patient health and situation data and information.
- Analyze assessment data to determine actual and potential diagnoses or issues.
- Identify expected outcomes and develop individualized plans of care.
- Implement and modify care plans and strategies to attain expected outcomes.
- Coordinate care delivery and transitions in care.
- Promote health and a safe environment through health teaching and health promotion.
- Evaluate progress toward expected outcomes.
- Practice ethically and in a culturally congruent manner.
- Communicate effectively and collaborate with patients, families, healthcare consumers, and other 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 and contribute to quality nursing practice.
- Evaluate own and others’ nursing practice.
- Use appropriate resources to provide safe, effective, evidence-based, and fiscally responsible nursing services.
- Practice in an environmentally safe and healthy manner.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Associate degree
