Registered Nurse RN – Transitional Care Coordinator

Registered Nurse RN – Transitional Care Coordinator

Apply for the Registered Nurse RN – Transitional Care Coordinator role at Yale New Haven Health
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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-centered, 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 are part of the patient 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.

As an integral member of the Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) healthcare team, the Registered Professional Nurse (RN) upholds the YNHHS mission, vision, values and strategic initiatives to provide the highest level of patient centered care. The RN practices professional nursing within the legal and ethical framework established by the Connecticut Nurse Practice Act, American Nurses Association Scope and Standards for Nursing Practice, ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses, and the YNHHS Professional Practice Model.

The professional role of the RN is exemplified by the qualities of leadership, delegation, collaboration, effective communication, and ensuring quality outcomes. The RN provides care that establishes and maintains a therapeutic relationship with the patient and family, integrates cultural and diversity considerations into practice, collaborates with the patient, family and health care team members, respects the patient’s values and preferences, and engages in holistic data collection, health care outcomes formulation and evaluation.

We are an equal opportunity employer.

• Standards of Practice: Guided by the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice (2015), includes assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation, evaluation, coordination of care, health teaching and promotion.
• Standards of Professional Performance: Includes ethics, cultural congruence, communication, collaboration, leadership, education, evidence-based practice, quality of practice, professional practice evaluation, resource utilization, and environmental health.

• Education: Graduation from an accredited school of nursing. BSN preferred. All newly hired registered nurses must have current BCLS certification or obtain it within one month of hire.
• Experience: Intraoperative RN experience required; cardiac OR experience strongly preferred.
• License: Licensed and currently a registered nurse in the State of Connecticut. Clinical specialty certification highly encouraged.
• Special
  
  Skills:
  
  All RNs encouraged to advance through the SPIRE clinical advancement program.
• Physical Demand: Requires prolonged standing, walking, use of sight, hearing, and touch; may be exposed to infectious diseases; moderate stress; ability to assist moving patients ranging from 5 to 300 pounds.

Intraoperative RN experience required; cardiac OR experience strongly preferred.

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