RN | Special Care Nursery​/Postpartum | Nights

Summary

This Registered Nurse (RN) 2 job exists within a designated inpatient specialty area. The Registered Nurse (RN) 2 is responsible for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care for a group of population specific patients for the department /unit, from simple to complex, with multi-system issues in a safe and therapeutic environment.

Graduated from an accredited School of Nursing, BSN preferred.

Registered Nurse
- New Hampshire Board of Nursing

Basic Life Support
- American Heart Association

• Provides direct patient care.
• Bases nursing actions by applying principles of purposeful, organized thinking to make clinical judgment/decisions.
• Gathers data through history taking and physical assessment and interprets data in order to plan and implement interventions to meet patient care needs.
• Develops, evaluates and revises patient’s plan of care and nursing actions in response to patient’s needs.
• Documents care provided and patient’s progress toward attainment of desired outcomes.
• Directs and supervises others in the performance of delegated nursing activities.
• Teaches the patient and/or significant other(s) about the plan of care.
• Prepares patients to manage their care after discharge, transfer or preparation for procedure/test.
• Manages time and resources to deliver patient care.
• Administers medications to patients.

One year prior clinical nursing experience. Evidence of experience in working effectively and positively with patients, care providers, and the multi-disciplinary team. Evidence of the ability to perform as a member of a team.

36 Hours 3 12-hour shifts 7 pm - 7:30 am - every other weekend - holidays required.

Concord Hospital is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is our policy to provide equal opportunity to all employees and applicants and to prohibit any discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. Applicants are protected under federal law from discrimination on several bases. If you require a reasonable accommodation for the application process, please contact Human Resources at .

The physical demands and characteristics of the work environment described here are representative of those that will be encountered by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. The employee must regularly lift, carry or push/pull up to 10 pounds, frequently lift, carry or push/pull up to 10-25 pounds, and occasionally lift, carry or push/pull up to 20-50 pounds.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to do fine motor, hear, speak, and walk. The employee is frequently required to bend, reach, sit, squat, and stand. The employee is occasionally required to climb, do repetitive motion, kneel, and smell. Specific vision abilities required include color vision, depth perception, far vision, near vision, and peripheral vision.

The employee is frequently exposed to airborne pathogens, blood borne pathogens, and bodily fluids. The employee is occasionally exposed to airborne contaminants, chemotherapeutic agents, electrical hazards - shock, moving mechanical parts, non-weather related heat or cold, slippery surfaces, and toxic or caustic chemicals. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.