Experienced Registered Nurse - Klarman 8- Cardiac Intermediate Care- 36hr Rotating
About The Position
The Clinical Nurse II is a professional registered nurse who uses the nursing process to provide direct care to patients and families. The role involves assessing health care needs, developing and implementing care plans, evaluating outcomes, and integrating theoretical knowledge with practical experience. Training, evaluation, and competencies are overseen by a Nurse Leader. The position is on Klarman 8, a 32-bed cardiac intermediate-care unit focused on advanced heart failure therapies. The unit cares for patients with decompensated heart failure, complex arrhythmias, myocardial infarctions, and post-procedural needs, including structural heart procedures, PCI, and electrophysiology procedures. It also serves patients requiring advanced modalities such as inotropic medications, LVADs, pulmonary artery catheters, and pericardial drains. Nurses receive staged workshops during their first year and annually thereafter to support continued competency. The nursing staff collaborates with the interdisciplinary care team to develop patient-centered treatment plans, with support for teamwork and professional development from unit leadership. The role requires rotating 36-hour workweeks and work in a physical environment involving standing or moving for most of the shift and exertion of up to 50 pounds occasionally or 20 pounds frequently.
Requirements
- Graduate of an accredited nursing program.
- Registered Nurse license.
- Basic Life Support certification.
- 1–3 years of related work experience.
- Basic computer familiarity and ability to navigate web-based applications.
Nice To Haves
- Baccalaureate degree in Nursing is strongly preferred.
- Experience in a teaching hospital.
- Expertise in a specialty area.
Responsibilities
- Provide direct patient care and make necessary nursing judgments.
- Systematically assess the health care needs of individuals or groups; formulate, implement, and evaluate care plans.
- Coordinate patient care and direct assistive personnel to provide safe, effective, efficient, equitable, timely, patient-centered care.
- Identify resources needed to implement care plans and consider environmental influences on patients and families.
- Collaborate with other health professionals to determine patients’ and families’ health care needs.
- Develop trusting and respectful relationships with patients and families, communicate effectively, and advocate for patients.
- Maintain annual mandatory education, emergency skills, and unit-based competencies.
- Identify professional growth and development needs with the unit-based educator or clinical nurse specialist and participate in professional development activities.
- May participate in quality improvement activities.
- Demonstrate accountability for nursing practice and patient safety, and commitment to patients, staff, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Benefits
- Extensive staged workshops during the first year of hire and annually thereafter to support continued competency.
- Professional development support from unit leadership.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
