New Graduate RN MICU YSC with Residency

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 upholds its mission, vision, values, and strategic initiatives to provide patient-centered care. 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 professional role includes leadership, delegation, collaboration, effective communication, and ensuring quality outcomes. Nursing practice is guided by autonomy and accountability, professional governance, and the use of evidence and data, with the patient and family at the center. The RN establishes and maintains therapeutic relationships with patients and families; incorporates cultural understanding and diversity into practice; collaborates with patients, families, and healthcare team members; and respects patients’ values, preferences, expressed needs, and knowledge in data collection, care planning, and evaluation. The role follows ANA standards for nursing practice and professional performance, including assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, implementation, coordination of care, health teaching, evaluation, ethical and culturally congruent practice, communication, collaboration, leadership, education, evidence-based practice, quality, resource utilization, and environmental health. This posting welcomes new graduate RNs for a February 2027 start and identifies the role as New Graduate RN MICU YSC 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.
Able to meet the physical demands of 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.
Registered nurses 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 plans of care prescribing strategies and alternatives 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 health-promotion strategies.
Evaluate progress toward attainment of outcomes.
Practice ethically and in a manner congruent with cultural diversity and inclusion principles.
Communicate effectively in all areas of practice and collaborate with healthcare consumers and other stakeholders.
Provide leadership appropriate to education and position, and remain accountable for professional actions.
Seek knowledge and competence reflecting current nursing practice and integrate evidence and research findings into practice.
Contribute to quality nursing practice and evaluate own and others’ nursing practice.
Use appropriate resources to plan, 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, incorporating cultural understanding and diversity.
Respect patients’ values, preferences, expressed needs, and knowledge in holistic data collection, care planning, and evaluation.