RN; Registered Nurse-Smilow Practice Trumbull

Yale New Haven Health•New Haven, CT

10d

About The Position

The Registered 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 emphasizes leadership, delegation, collaboration, effective communication, quality outcomes, autonomy, and accountability. The RN establishes and maintains 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 when collecting holistic data, determining outcomes, and evaluating care. Nursing practice follows the ANA Standards of Practice and Standards of Professional Performance. The RN uses the nursing process to assess, diagnose, identify outcomes, plan, implement, coordinate, teach, promote health, and evaluate care. The RN also practices ethically and in a culturally congruent manner, communicates and collaborates effectively, demonstrates leadership, pursues knowledge and competence, incorporates evidence and research, contributes to quality practice, evaluates nursing practice, uses resources responsibly, and maintains an environmentally safe and healthy practice.

Requirements

Graduation from an accredited school of nursing.
Current Connecticut registered nurse licensure.
Current BCLS certification, or obtain it within one month of hire.
Ability to perform the stated physical demands, including assisting with pushing, pulling, and lifting patients weighing 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 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 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 promotion strategies.
Evaluate progress toward the attainment of outcomes.
Practice ethically and in a manner congruent with cultural diversity and inclusion principles.
Communicate effectively and collaborate with healthcare consumers and other stakeholders.
Demonstrate leadership appropriate to 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 and sustain safe, effective, evidence-based, and fiscally responsible nursing services.
Practice in an environmentally safe and healthy manner.