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 of Nursing Practice, the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses, and the YNHHS Professional Practice Model. The RN demonstrates leadership, delegation, collaboration, effective communication, and accountability for quality outcomes. Care is centered on the patient and family and includes establishing therapeutic relationships, integrating cultural awareness and diversity into practice, collaborating with patients, families, and the healthcare team, and respecting patients’ values, preferences, needs, and knowledge when collecting information, planning outcomes, and evaluating care. RN practice encompasses the nursing process: assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, implementation, coordination of care, health teaching and health promotion, and evaluation. The RN also meets professional performance standards in ethics, culturally congruent practice, communication, collaboration, leadership, education, evidence-based practice and research, quality of practice, professional practice evaluation, resource utilization, and environmental health.

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 it within one month of hire.
Ability to meet the physical demands of the role, including prolonged standing and walking; 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).
Clinical specialty certification.
Advancement through the SPIRE clinical advancement program is encouraged.

Responsibilities

Collect pertinent patient health and situation data and analyze it to identify actual and potential diagnoses or issues.
Identify expected outcomes and develop or modify individualized plans of care.
Implement care plans, coordinate care delivery and transitions, and evaluate progress toward expected outcomes.
Promote health and a safe environment through teaching and health-promotion strategies.
Practice ethically and in a manner consistent with cultural diversity and inclusion principles.
Communicate effectively and collaborate with patients, healthcare consumers, families, and other stakeholders.
Provide leadership appropriate to the professional practice setting, education, and position.
Maintain current nursing knowledge and competence, and integrate evidence and research findings into 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.