Registered Nurse - Ambulatory Pulmonary & Critical Care (Full Time)
About The Position
Beth Israel Lahey Health is seeking a compassionate, skilled Registered Nurse for its Ambulatory Pulmonary & Critical Care team. The nurse practices within the nursing process and provides direct nursing care to patients and families. The role involves assessing healthcare needs, developing and implementing individualized care plans, coordinating care with interdisciplinary teams, and promoting patient safety and advocacy across the continuum of care. This is a 40-hour-per-week position. A compressed schedule of four 10-hour shifts may be available, with two remote days after six months of satisfactory performance for external applicants. There are no weekend or on-call requirements. The role requires annual mandatory education, including emergency skills and unit-based competencies, and may involve participation in quality improvement activities. Staff must be vaccinated against influenza as a condition of employment.
Requirements
- Graduate of an accredited nursing program.
- 1–3 years of related work experience.
- Registered Nurse license required.
- American Heart Association Basic Life Support certificate required.
- Ability to provide patient care to neonatal patients from birth to 6 months, young adults aged 16–30, middle-aged adults aged 30–60, and elderly patients aged 60 and over.
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in written English and converse in English with staff, patients, families, and external customers.
- Ability to make decisions, solve problems, follow procedures, organize work, and seek assistance in difficult or unpredictable situations.
- Ability to work collaboratively, provide professional customer service, and remain calm in stressful situations.
- Ability to sustain concentrated attention and respond to changing circumstances and new information.
- Ability to perform medium physical work: exert up to 50 pounds occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds frequently; stand or move for most of the shift; walk constantly; and perform the listed bending, twisting, crouching, grasping, manipulation, pushing, pulling, reaching, lifting, carrying, and patient-repositioning tasks.
- Ability to work amid potential exposure to infectious diseases, airborne or bloodborne pathogens, and other adverse environmental conditions, using required protective equipment.
Nice To Haves
- Baccalaureate degree in Nursing strongly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Provide direct nursing care to patients and families and make appropriate nursing judgments.
- Systematically assess individual or group healthcare needs; formulate, implement, and evaluate care plans.
- Integrate theoretical knowledge and practical experience to make decisions in patient care.
- Coordinate patient care and direct assistive personnel to support safe, effective, efficient, equitable, timely, patient-centered care.
- Identify environmental factors affecting patients and families and determine resources needed to implement care plans.
- Collaborate with other health professionals to determine patients’ and families’ healthcare needs.
- Build relationships with patients and families that communicate trust and respect; exchange information effectively and act as a patient advocate.
- Maintain annual mandatory education requirements, including emergency skills and unit-based competencies.
- Identify professional growth and development needs with the unit-based educator or clinical nurse specialist and participate in professional development.
- May participate in quality improvement activities.
- Demonstrate accountability for nursing practice and patient safety, and commitment to patients, staff, and the medical center.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
