Registered Nurse; RN - ECC Emergency Care
Listed on 2026-02-16
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Nursing
Healthcare Nursing, RN Nurse
Registered Nurse (RN) – ECC Emergency Care at Yale New Haven Health
This role involves delivering patient-centered emergency care in a dynamic hospital setting, where the RN establishes therapeutic relationships and collaborates closely with a multidisciplinary healthcare team. The position requires the execution of the nursing process—from assessment and diagnosis to planning, implementation, and evaluation—ensuring that all patient care is evidence-based and in line with high professional and ethical standards. Additionally, the RN is expected to demonstrate leadership and continuous professional development while supporting the mission, vision, and values of the healthcare organization.
OverviewTo 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 of Bridgeport Hospital are part of the patients 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.
RegisteredNurse Role
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 as a registered nurse 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, ensuring quality outcomes. YNHHS nurses practice in a framework outlined in our professional practice model, which states, "Achieving outcomes through Autonomy and Accountability". We value Nursing Professional Governance, and use evidence and data to support our practice with the patient and family at the center, always.
- 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, in formulating health care outcomes and in the evaluation process.
STANDARDS OF PRACTICE: RN practice is guided by the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice. The Standards of Practice describe a competent level of nursing care as demonstrated by utilizing the nursing process components of assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, implementation and evaluation.
- Assessment:
The registered nurse collects pertinent data and information relative to the healthcare consumer's health or situation. - Diagnosis:
The RN analyzes the assessment data to determine the actual and potential diagnoses or the issues. - Outcomes Identification:
The RN identifies expected outcomes for a plan individualized to the healthcare consumer or the situation. - Planning:
The RN develops and modifies a plan of care that prescribes strategies and alternatives to attain expected outcomes. - Implementation:
The RN implements the identified plan. - Coordination of Care:
The RN coordinates care delivery and transitions in care. - Health Teaching and Health Promotion:
The RN employs strategies to promote health and a safe environment. - Evaluation:
The RN evaluates progress…
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