PICC RN; Registered Nurse

Yale New Haven Health•New Haven, CT

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 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 calls for leadership, delegation, collaboration, effective communication, and attention to quality outcomes. Nursing practice is guided by autonomy and accountability, professional governance, and the use of evidence and data, with patients and families at the center of care. The RN establishes and maintains therapeutic relationships with patients and families, integrates cultural and diversity considerations into practice, and works collaboratively with patients, families, and healthcare team members. Care respects patients’ values, preferences, expressed needs, and knowledge of their healthcare situation in data collection, care planning, and evaluation. The RN delivers care through the nursing process: assessment, diagnosis, identification of outcomes, planning, implementation, coordination of care, health teaching and promotion, and evaluation. The RN is also expected to meet professional performance standards related to ethics, culturally congruent practice, communication, collaboration, leadership, education, evidence-based practice and research, quality of practice, professional practice evaluation, resource utilization, 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 certification within one month of hire.
Ability to perform duties involving prolonged standing and walking, use of sight, hearing, and touch, and frequent bending, reaching, pushing, pulling, twisting, and lifting.
Ability to assist with pushing, pulling, and 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 pertinent 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 plans of care, including strategies and alternatives to achieve expected outcomes.
Implement the identified plan of care.
Coordinate care delivery and transitions in care.
Use health teaching and health promotion strategies to promote health and a safe environment.
Evaluate progress toward expected outcomes.
Practice ethically and in a culturally congruent manner.
Communicate effectively and collaborate with 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 and sustain safe, effective, evidence-based, and fiscally responsible nursing services.
Practice in an environmentally safe and healthy manner.
Establish therapeutic relationships with patients and families and respect their values, preferences, expressed needs, and knowledge of their healthcare situation.