Registered Nurse MICU SRC

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 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. Nurses use evidence and data to support practice, keeping patients and families at the center of care. The RN establishes and maintains therapeutic relationships with patients and families, integrates cultural understanding and diversity into practice, collaborates with patients, families, and healthcare team members, and respects patients’ values, preferences, needs, and knowledge in assessment, care planning, and evaluation. The role includes care for patients in the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU).

Requirements

Graduation from an accredited school of nursing.
At least 1 year of acute RN experience.
Current licensure and registration as a nurse in the State of Connecticut.
Current BCLS certification, or obtain BCLS certification within one month of hire.
Ability to meet physical demands including prolonged standing and walking, frequent bending, reaching, pushing, pulling, twisting, and lifting; ability to assist with pushing, pulling, or lifting patients weighing 5 to 300 pounds.
Ability to use sight, hearing, and touch and to work amid patient care-related stress and risk of injury.

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 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 individualized plans of care.
Develop and modify plans of care to achieve 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 health promotion.
Evaluate progress toward expected outcomes.
Practice ethically and in a manner congruent with cultural diversity and inclusion principles.
Communicate effectively and collaborate with healthcare consumers and other stakeholders.
Provide 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 safe, effective, evidence-based, and fiscally responsible nursing services.
Practice in an environmentally safe and healthy manner.
Establish therapeutic relationships with patients and families, communicate and work collaboratively with them and the healthcare team, and incorporate patient values and preferences into care.