REGISTERED NURSE-Outpatient Clinic RN-Per Diem

Yale New Haven Health•Bridgeport, CT

About The Position

The Registered Professional Nurse (RN) provides patient-centered outpatient nursing care as an integral member of the Yale New Haven Health System healthcare team. 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, and quality outcomes, with patient and family needs at the center of care. 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 includes respecting patients’ values, preferences, expressed needs, and knowledge of their healthcare situation throughout data collection, outcome planning, and evaluation. The RN uses the nursing process to assess, identify diagnoses and expected outcomes, plan and implement care, coordinate care and transitions, promote health and safety, and evaluate progress. The RN also follows professional performance standards in ethics, culturally congruent practice, communication, collaboration, leadership, education, evidence-based practice and research, quality, practice evaluation, resource utilization, and environmental health. The position is per diem, with hours listed as 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Outpatient RN experience is strongly preferred.

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 the physical demands of the position, including prolonged standing and walking, frequent bending, reaching, pushing, pulling, twisting, and lifting, and assisting with moving patients weighing 5 to 300 pounds.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) preferred.
Clinical specialty certification highly encouraged.
Outpatient RN experience strongly preferred.
RNs are encouraged to advance through the SPIRE clinical advancement program.

Responsibilities

Collect pertinent data and information about the patient’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 achieve expected outcomes.
Coordinate care delivery and transitions in care.
Promote health and a safe environment through health teaching and other strategies.
Evaluate progress toward expected outcomes.
Practice ethically and in a manner congruent with cultural diversity and inclusion principles.
Communicate effectively and collaborate with patients and other key stakeholders.
Demonstrate leadership appropriate to education and position.
Seek knowledge and competence reflecting current nursing practice.
Integrate evidence and research findings into nursing practice.
Contribute to quality nursing practice and 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 and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients and families and respect patients’ values, preferences, and expressed needs.