Registered Nurse (RN), Med Surg - 32 hours / week, night shift

Job Type : Regular

Time Type : Full time

Work Shift : Night (United States of America)

FLSA Status : Non-Exempt

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

Job Description : Job Description

Johnson 6 is a 37 bed medical unit. The unit has multiple private rooms to accommodate the needs of the variety of patient populations that are served there. Johnson 6 also has three four bed rooms which overflow beds are available in case of elevated census. There is one negative pressure room to accommodate needs of patients requiring this level of need.

The entire unit has had an assessment to accommodate the behavioral health patients we care for that may happen to be on suicide precautions. These patients tent to be placed in the private rooms at the Nurse’s Station for the highest levels of monitoring.

Patient Population Johnson 6 accepts patients of 16 years of age or older with chronic medical conditions. Patients cared for on this unit generally range in age 20 to 90 years of age, there is such a range of ages on Johnson 6 due to the variety of medical conditions that are treated can impact any age group. Patients are admitted from many services including internal medicine, medical oncology, hospice, infectious disease, behavioral health, thoracic surgery and renal. Common Medical Diagnoses

Pancreatitis

Cerebral vascular accident

Dementia

Delirium

Failure to thrive

Cancer

Substance abuse issues Common Nursing Diagnoses

Nutritional deficit

Safety (Fall risk)

Alteration in skin integrity

Alteration in body image

Cellulitis

Pain management

Powerlessness

On Johnson 6, one of the key roles in successful patient care is that of the unit based Pharmacist on the day shift M-F. The patients on Johnson 6 require complex pharmaceutical interventions, and having this expertise available on the unit to support the patient care needs as well as a resource of Provider order management has allowed the RN staff to collaborate for highest quality outcomes.

Qualified candidates

graduate of an accredited school of nursing

current Massachusetts Registered Nurse license

Must have a minimum of 1 year of RN acute or post-acute care experience

BSN preferred

BCLS required

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

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