Registered Nurse - Emergency Room Job Derby area,Connecticut USA,Healthcare

Registered Nurse – Emergency Room

This position involves providing urgent, patient-centered care in an emergency room environment, ensuring rapid assessment, diagnosis, and treatment. The registered nurse collaborates with multidisciplinary care teams and adheres to legal, ethical, and professional standards to deliver quality medical services. Emphasizing leadership, communication, and evidence-based practices, the RN supports patient recovery and continuous improvements in healthcare delivery.

Overview

To be part of our organization, every employee should understand and share in the YNHHS Vision, support our Mission, and live our Values. These values—integrity, patient-centeredness, respect, accountability, and compassion—must guide what we do, as individuals and professionals, every day. At Bridgeport Hospital, we are committed to providing quality medical care and treatment that is coordinated and centered on the patient’s specific needs.

We strive to achieve benchmarks as a Patient Centered Medical Home and provide health care in a setting where patients are at the center of their care team. All employees of Bridgeport Hospital are part of the patient’s care team and contribute to the team approach of promoting access, continuous, comprehensive care and work to provide quality improvement in the care provided to their patients.

Responsibilities

Establishes and maintains a therapeutic relationship with the patient and family, encompassing an understanding and integration of cultural and diversity into practice; includes communicating and working collaboratively with the patient, family and health care team members; includes respecting the patient’s values, preferences, expressed needs and knowledge of the healthcare situation in holistic data collection, formulating health‑care outcomes and in the evaluation process.

Standards of Practice

Assessment:
Collects pertinent data and information related to the health or situation of the healthcare consumer.
Diagnosis:
Analyzes assessment data to determine the actual and potential diagnoses or issues.
Outcomes Identification:
Identifies expected outcomes for a plan individualized to the healthcare consumer or the situation.
Planning:
Develops and modifies a plan of care that prescribes strategies and alternatives to attain expected outcomes.
Implementation:
Implements the identified plan.
Coordination of Care:
Coordinates care delivery and transitions in care.
Health Teaching and Health Promotion:
Employs strategies to promote health and a safe environment.
Evaluation:
Evaluates progress toward attainment of outcomes.

Standards of Professional Performance

Ethics:
Practices ethically.
Culturally congruent practice:
Practices in a manner that is congruent with cultural diversity and inclusion principles.
Communication:
Communicates effectively in all areas of practice.
Collaboration:

Collaborates with healthcare consumer and other key stakeholders.
Leadership:
Leads within the professional practice setting and the profession.
Education:

Seeks knowledge and competence that reflects current nursing practice and promotes futuristic thinking.
Evidence-based practice and research:
Integrates evidence and research findings into practice.
Quality of Practice:
Contributes to quality nursing practice.
Professional practice evaluation:
Evaluates ownership of and others’ nursing practice.
Resource utilization:
Utilizes appropriate resources to plan, provide and sustain evidence-based nursing services that are safe, effective and fiscally responsible.
Environmental health:
Practices in an environmentally safe and healthy manner.

Qualifications

Education: Graduation from an accredited school of nursing. BSN preferred. All newly hired registered nurses must have current BCLS certification or obtain within one month of hire.

Experience: Registered Nurse is the foundational job description for all RNs. All RNs are encouraged to advance through the SPIRE clinical advancement program.

Licensure: Licensed and a currently registered nurse in the State of Connecticut. Clinical specialty certification highly encouraged.

Special

Skills:

Registered Nurse is the foundational job description for all RNs. All RNs are encouraged to advance through the SPIRE clinical advancement program.

Physical Demands: Requires prolonged standing; walking; use of sight, hearing, and touch. May be exposed to infectious diseases. Will be exposed to physical, mental and emotional illness as well as end‑of‑life conditions and death. Moderate stress and risk of injury from patient care. Standing/walking for more than half of the day. Frequently bending, reaching, pushing, pulling, twisting and lifting. Must be able to assist pushing/pulling/lifting patients ranging from five (5) to three hundred pounds.

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