Experienced Registered Nurse,Medical ICU/Night Rotation Job Burlington area,Massachusetts USA,Nursing

Position: Experienced Registered Nurse, Medical ICU, 36 hours, Day/Night Rotation

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you're making a difference in people's lives. Lahey believes that the nurse-patient relationship, continuity of care and personal accountability are central to the delivery of individualized high quality patient care. As Lahey continues to grow, we are seeking experienced and qualified nurses for our Critical Care Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU).

The MICU is a 12-bed acute care area. Highly trained nurses care primarily for medical patients requiring ventilatory support and ECG monitoring. Additionally, patients may require hemodynamic monitoring, intracranial pressure monitoring, and/or CVVH. The MICU patient population also includes patients receiving TPA for stroke and patients with hepatic-renal failure. Working together with the pulmonary team, nurses maintain extensive critical care skills and provide a supportive atmosphere for each other, the patients, and the patients' families.

Patient population ranges from young adult to geriatric. Services required may include but are not limited to:
Pulmonary/Critical Care, Cardiac, Neurology, Infectious Disease, GI/Liver transplant, Nephrology, Hematology.

Qualifications

BSN preferred
Valid RN MA License American Heart Association BLS, ACLS strongly preferred
Critical Care experience strongly preferred

Job Description

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

I. Clinical Judgment and Decision Making: Ways in which nurses come to understand the problems, issues or concerns of patients/families, to attend to relevant/critical information, and to respond in concerned and involved ways.

A. The Registered Nurse is expected to and is accountable for providing safe patient care by demonstrating organizational skills that maintain and coordinate safe delivery of quality care for assigned patients/families.
Develops a culturally competent plan of care that identifies patient problems, expected outcomes, and addresses preventative measures.
B. Performs systematic patient and family assessment relevant to practice settings.
C. Delivers care that is specific to the age of the patient.
D. Evaluates effectiveness of care and adapts plan based on patient/family response.

II. Professional Relationship: The professional relationship is based upon Lahey Clinic's guiding principles and positive effective communication. This relationship extends beyond formal assessment to integrate the particular patient's response and his/her religious/spiritual, ethnic and cultural beliefs into the plan of care.

A. Establishes professional relationship with nurses, physicians and other colleagues and patients and families.
The relationship includes the patient and family as a partner in care and is based upon Swanson's Theory of Caring.
B. Educates the patient and family about the patient's illness and treatment including preventative measures appropriate to the patient.
C. Supports Lahey Clinics commitment to community based activities both within the Lahey community and beyond.

III. Clinical Leadership: The Registered Nurse supports the development of others and creates a practice climate of responsiveness and learning based on Benner's Novice to Expert skills acquisition model. This supports the retention and recruitment of clinically competent nurses. The ability to lead and influence the reasoning of colleagues in the patient's best interest depends on skillful comportment, authoritative clinical knowledge and wisdom, the conviction to act as an ethical agent despite adverse consequences, and the ability to listen and enhance others' strengths.

A. Demonstrates professional behavior by adhering to unit policies and procedures, practice guidelines specific to the setting and the ANA Code of Ethics.
B. Demonstrates…

Experienced Registered Nurse, Medical ICU​/Night Rotation

Experienced Registered Nurse, Medical ICU/Night Rotation