? Immediate Start Registered Nurse - Pediatrics

Overview\nTo be part of our organization, every employee should understand and share in the YNHHS Vision, support our Mission, and live our Values.\nThese values - integrity, patient-centered, respect, accountability, and compassion - must guide what we do, as individuals and professionals, every day.\nAt Bridgeport Hospital, we are committed to providing quality medical care and treatment that is coordinated and centered on the patient's specific needs.\nWe 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.\nAll 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.\nAs 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.\nThe 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.\nThe professional role of the RN is exemplified by the qualities of leadership, delegation, collaboration, effective communication, ensuring quality outcomes.\nYNHHS nurses practice in a framework outlined in our professional practice model, which states, "Achieving outcomes through Autonomy and Accountability".\nWe value Nursing Professional Governance, and use evidence and data to support our practice with the patient and family at the center, always.\nThe RN provides care that : \n\n

• Establishes and maintains a therapeutic relationship with the patient and family encompasses an understanding and integration of cultural and diversity into practice\n
• Includes communicating and working collaboratively with the patient, family and health care team members\n
• 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.\nEEO / AA / Disability / Veteran\nResponsibilities\n
• 1.\nSTANDARDS OF PRACTICE RN practice is guided by the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice (2015).\nThe 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.\nAssessment : \nThe registered nurse collects pertinent data and information relative to the healthcare consumer's health or situation Diagnosis : \nThe RN analyzes the assessment data to determine the actual and potential diagnoses or the issues.\nOutcomes Identification : \nThe RN identifies expected outcomes for a plan individualized to the healthcare consumer or the situation.\nPlanning : \nThe RN develops and modifies a plan of care that prescribes strategies and alternatives to attain expected outcomes.\nImplementation : \nThe RN implements the identified plan.\nCoordination of Care : \nThe RN coordinates care delivery and transitions in care.\nHealth Teaching and Health Promotion : \nThe RN employs strategies to promote health and a safe environment.\nEvaluation : \nThe RN evaluates progress toward attainment of outcomes.\n
• 2.\nSTANDARDS OF PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE The ANA Standards of Professional Performance (2015) describe a competent level of behavior in the professional role, including activities related to : \nethics, culturally congruent practice, communication, collaboration, leadership, education, evidence-based practice and research, quality of practice professional practice evaluation, resource utilization and environmental health.\nThe RN is expected to engage in professional role activities, including leadership, appropriate to their education and position.\nThe RN is accountable to for their professional actions to themselves, their healthcare consumers, their peers and ultimately to society.\nEthics : \nThe RN practices ethically.\nCulturally congruent practice : \nThe RN practices in a manner that is congruent with cultural diversity and inclusion principles.\nCommunication : \nThe RN communicates effectively in all areas of practice Collaboration : \nThe RN collaborates with healthcare consumer and other key stakeholders in the conduct of nursing practice.\nLeadership : \nThe RN leads within the professional practice setting and the profession.\nEducation : \nthe RN seeks knowledge and competence that reflects current nursing practice and promotes futuristic thinking.\nEvidence-Based Practice and Research : \nThe RN integrates evidence and research findings into practice Quality of Practice : \nThe RN contributes to quality nursing practice.\nProfessional Practice Evaluation : \nThe RN evaluates owns' and others' nursing practice.\nResource Utilization : \nThe RN utilizes appropriate resources to plan provide and sustain evidence-based nursing services that are safe, effective and fiscally responsible Environmental Health : \nThe RN practices in an environmentally safe and healthy manner.\nQualifications\nGraduation from an accredited school of nursing.\nBSN preferred.\nAll newly hired registered nurses must have current BCLS certification or must obtain within one month of hire.\nEXPERIENCE\nRegistered Nurse is the foundational job description for all RNs.\nAll RNs are encouraged to advance through the SPIRE clinical advancement program.\nLICENSURE\nLicensed and a currently registered nurse in the State of Connecticut.\nClinical specialty certification highly encouraged.\nSPECIAL SKILLS\nPHYSICAL DEMAND\nRequires prolonged standing; walking; use of sight, hearing, and touch.\nMay be exposed to infectious diseases.\nWill be exposed to physical, mental and emotional illness as well as end of life conditions and death.\nModerate stress and risk of injury from patient care.\nStanding / walking for more than half of the day.\nFrequently bending, reaching, pushing, pulling, twisting and lifting.\nMust be able to assist pushing / pulling / lifting patients ranging from five (5) to three hundred (300) pounds.\nAdditional Information\nTHIS POSITION IS COVERED BY THE CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATES COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT\nOrthopedic RN experience preferred.\nYNHHS Requisition ID\n162257