Registered Nurse; Registered Nurse

Yale New Haven Health•New Haven, CT

About The Position

The Registered Nurse (RN) is an integral member of the Yale New Haven Health System healthcare team and provides patient-centered nursing 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 role emphasizes leadership, delegation, collaboration, effective communication, and quality outcomes, with nursing practice guided by autonomy, accountability, evidence, and data. Care is centered on the patient and family and includes building therapeutic relationships, integrating cultural awareness and diversity, collaborating with patients, families, and healthcare team members, and respecting patients’ values, preferences, expressed needs, and knowledge of their healthcare situation. The RN provides competent nursing care through assessment, diagnosis, identification of outcomes, planning, implementation, coordination of care, health teaching and promotion, and evaluation. The RN also meets professional performance standards in ethics, culturally congruent practice, communication, collaboration, leadership, education, evidence-based practice and research, quality of practice, professional practice evaluation, resource utilization, and environmental health. The RN is accountable for professional actions to themselves, healthcare consumers, peers, and society.

Requirements

Graduation from an accredited school of nursing.
Licensed and currently registered as a nurse in the State of Connecticut.
Current BCLS certification, or obtain it within one month of hire.
Ability to meet the physical demands of the role, including prolonged standing and walking; use of sight, hearing, and touch; frequent bending, reaching, pushing, pulling, twisting, and lifting; and assisting 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.
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 care plans that prescribe strategies and alternatives to attain expected outcomes.
Implement the identified plan of care.
Coordinate care delivery and transitions in care.
Employ strategies that promote health and a safe environment.
Evaluate progress toward attainment of outcomes.
Practice ethically and in a manner congruent with cultural diversity and inclusion principles.
Communicate effectively across all areas of practice.
Collaborate with healthcare consumers and other key stakeholders in nursing practice.
Provide leadership within the professional practice setting and the nursing profession, appropriate to education and position.
Seek knowledge and competence reflecting current nursing practice and promoting futuristic thinking.
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.