New Graduate RN Neonatal ICU with Residency

Yale New Haven Health • New Haven, CT

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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 alignment with YNHHS’s mission, vision, values, and strategic initiatives. The RN practices within the legal and ethical framework of 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, quality outcomes, autonomy, and accountability.

The RN establishes therapeutic relationships with patients and families, integrates cultural awareness and diversity into practice, collaborates with patients, families, and healthcare team members, and respects patients’ values, preferences, expressed needs, and knowledge. Nursing practice includes assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, implementation, coordination of care, health teaching and promotion, and evaluation. The RN also practices ethically and contributes to culturally congruent care, communication, collaboration, leadership, education, evidence-based practice, research, quality improvement, professional practice evaluation, responsible resource utilization, and environmental health.

This posting welcomes new graduates for a March 2027 start in the Neonatal ICU with residency.

Requirements

• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing.
• Current BCLS certification, or obtain it within one month of hire.
• Licensed and currently registered as a nurse in the State of Connecticut.
• 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 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 information about the healthcare consumer’s health or situation.
• Analyze assessment data to identify actual and potential diagnoses or issues.
• Identify expected outcomes for an individualized plan of care.
• Develop and modify plans of care and implement strategies to attain expected outcomes.
• Coordinate care delivery and transitions in care.
• Promote health and a safe environment through health teaching and health-promotion strategies.
• Evaluate progress toward expected outcomes.
• Practice ethically and in a manner consistent with cultural diversity and inclusion.
• Communicate effectively and collaborate with patients, healthcare consumers, and other stakeholders.
• Provide leadership appropriate to the professional practice setting, education, and position.
• 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 safe, effective, evidence-based, and fiscally responsible nursing services.
• Practice in an environmentally safe and healthy manner.

What This Job Offers

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