NA; Registered Nurse

Yale New Haven Health • Bridgeport, CT

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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 accordance with the YNHHS mission, vision, values, strategic initiatives, and professional practice model. 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, accountability, and quality outcomes.

The RN establishes and maintains therapeutic relationships with patients and families, integrates cultural awareness and diversity into practice, and collaborates with patients, families, and healthcare team members. Care respects patients’ values, preferences, expressed needs, and knowledge of their healthcare situation throughout assessment, care planning, and evaluation. The RN uses evidence and data to support practice, with patients and families at the center of care.

Requirements

• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing.
• Current licensure and registration as a nurse in the State of Connecticut.
• Newly hired registered nurses must have current BCLS certification or obtain it within one month of hire.

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 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 a plan of care that prescribes 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 attainment of expected outcomes.
• Practice ethically and in a manner congruent with cultural diversity and inclusion principles.
• Communicate effectively in 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.
• Contribute to quality nursing practice and evaluate one’s 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.
• Remain accountable for professional actions to oneself, healthcare consumers, peers, and society.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed