Night Rotation

Beth Israel Lahey Health•Boston, MA

4d•$38 - $98

About The Position

The MICU/SICU is a combined medical, surgical, and oncology intensive care unit caring for patients who require critical care intervention and monitoring. Patients have a wide range of infectious disease, gastrointestinal, cardiac, and oncology complications, as well as respiratory conditions requiring ventilator support and invasive pressure monitoring. The Registered Nurse provides direct patient care and makes nursing judgments, systematically assessing health care needs and formulating, implementing, and evaluating care plans. The nurse coordinates patient care, directs assistive personnel, collaborates with other health professionals, communicates with patients and families, and advocates for patients. The role also includes maintaining required education and unit competencies, pursuing professional development, and contributing to quality improvement activities as applicable. Nurses are accountable for their practice and patient safety and are expected to support the goals of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. This position is listed as 36 hours with a day/night rotation. It requires regular hands-on contact with patients and may involve exposure to infectious diseases and airborne or bloodborne pathogens. The work is physically demanding and requires frequent movement, standing, patient repositioning, and lifting or pushing items.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited nursing program.
1–3 years of related work experience.
Registered Nurse license.
American Heart Association Basic Life Support certificate.
Ability to make decisions guided by general instructions and practices, including recommendations for moderately complex problems.
Ability to analyze varied problems using observation, knowledge, skills, and general precedents.
Ability to follow procedures, prioritize and organize work within guidelines, and seek help in difficult or unpredictable situations.
Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in written English.
Ability to comprehend and converse in English with medical center staff, patients, families, and external customers.
Working knowledge of standard concepts, practices, procedures, and policies and ability to apply them in varied situations.
Ability to lead small projects or work groups and foster a collaborative, respectful team environment.
Ability to provide professional, respectful, service-oriented customer service and remain calm in stressful situations.
Ability to sustain concentrated attention for up to 4 hours without a break and adjust to changing circumstances and needs.
Ability to perform medium physical work, exerting up to 50 pounds occasionally and up to 20 pounds frequently, and to stand or move for most of the shift.
Ability to walk constantly; stand frequently; bend and twist the neck and waist; crouch and repeat crouching; use power grasping and fine manipulation with both hands; push and pull with both hands; use a keyboard; reach above and below shoulder height; lift and carry up to 50 pounds; reposition patients weighing up to 100 pounds without assistance and up to 250 pounds with assistance; push items up to 50 pounds; and push a wheelchair or wheeled bed containing a patient weighing up to 250 pounds with assistance.
Ability to work with sensory demands including close visual work, color perception, visual clarity at near and far distances, temperature variation, touch, smell, conversation, monitoring equipment, telephone use, and background noise.
Compliance with the employer’s influenza vaccination requirement as a condition of employment.

Nice To Haves

Baccalaureate degree in Nursing strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Provide direct patient care and make necessary nursing judgments.
Assess health care needs systematically and formulate, implement, and evaluate care plans.
Integrate theoretical knowledge and practical experience in patient care and decision-making.
Coordinate patient care and direct assistive personnel to support safe, effective, efficient, equitable, timely, and patient-centered care.
Identify resources needed to implement care plans and consider environmental forces affecting patients and families.
Collaborate with other health professionals to determine the health care needs of patients and families.
Develop trusting and respectful relationships with patients and families, communicate effectively, and act as a patient advocate.
Maintain annual mandatory education requirements, including emergency skills and unit-based competencies.
Identify continued growth and development needs with the unit-based educator or clinical nurse specialist.
Participate in professional development activities and, as applicable, quality improvement activities.
Demonstrate accountability for nursing practice and patient safety and commitment to the patients, staff, and medical center.
Provide patient care to the listed age groups: neonatal (birth to 6 months), young adult (16–30 years), middle age (30–60 years), and elderly (60 years and over).