Experienced Registered Nurse- Farr 7- Medicine Telemetry- 36hr Nights
About The Position
The Registered Nurse provides direct patient care and makes necessary nursing judgments. The role systematically assesses the health care needs of individuals or groups; formulates, implements, and evaluates care plans; and integrates theoretical knowledge with practical experience to make decisions in patient care. The nurse coordinates patient care and directs assistive personnel to provide safe, effective, efficient, equitable, timely, and patient-centered care. The position also involves identifying resources needed to implement care plans and considering environmental factors affecting patients and families. The nurse collaborates with other health professionals to determine patients’ and families’ health care needs, builds relationships grounded in trust and respect, communicates effectively, and advocates for patients. The role requires maintaining annual mandatory education, including emergency skills and unit-based competencies, identifying professional development needs, and potentially participating in quality improvement activities. The nurse is accountable for their nursing practice and patient safety and demonstrates commitment to patients, staff, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The position is on a 28-bed acute medical unit caring primarily for patients with general medical conditions, commonly admitted from the Emergency Department, Intensive Care Unit, or other inpatient areas and managed by the Hospitalist Service. Nurses care for a diverse patient population and encounter treatments including IV and oral medication administration, wound care, cardiac telemetry monitoring, central line management, parenteral nutrition, tracheostomy care, and occasional peritoneal dialysis. The schedule is full-time nights, consisting of three 12-hour shifts per week from 7:00 PM to 7:30 AM, with every-third-weekend rotation and holiday rotation required. Staff must be vaccinated against influenza as a condition of employment.
Requirements
- Graduate of an accredited nursing program.
- Registered Nurse license required.
- Basic Life Support certificate required.
- 1–3 years of related work experience required.
- Vaccination against influenza is required as a condition of employment.
Nice To Haves
- Baccalaureate degree in Nursing strongly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Provide direct patient care and make necessary nursing judgments.
- Systematically assess health care needs and formulate, implement, and evaluate care plans.
- Coordinate patient care and direct assistive personnel to support safe, effective, efficient, equitable, timely, patient-centered care.
- Identify resources needed to implement plans of care and consider environmental factors affecting patients and families.
- Collaborate with health professionals to determine the health care needs of patients and families.
- Build trusting and respectful relationships with patients and families; communicate effectively and advocate for patients.
- Maintain annual mandatory education, including emergency skills and unit-based competencies.
- Identify professional growth and development needs and participate in professional development activities.
- May participate in quality improvement activities.
- Demonstrate accountability for nursing practice and patient safety, and commitment to patients, staff, and the Medical Center.
- Provide care involving treatments such as medication administration, wound care, cardiac telemetry monitoring, central line management, parenteral nutrition, tracheostomy care, and occasional peritoneal dialysis.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
