Nurse Residency- Neuro Intermediate Care (NIMU)- 36hr Rotating

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

Join our 15-bed Neuroscience Intermediate Care Unit in the Rosenberg Building at BIDMC Boston, a world-renowned medical center and accredited Comprehensive Stroke Center, as part of The Brain Aneurysm Institute.

Our nurse residency program provides a strong foundation in nursing while preparing you to care for a diverse Neuroscience patient population, including post-operative neurosurgery, stroke, neuromuscular disorders, traumatic brain injury, neuro-oncology, and epilepsy. You’ll develop specialized skills to manage intermediate care patients requiring advanced monitoring—such as post-thrombectomy and TNK cases—along with caring for external ventriculostomy drains and initiating select vasoactive infusions.

As a Clinical Nurse I, you’ll participate in an innovative, evidence-based orientation designed to build clinical competence and confidence in Neuroscience nursing. Through a structured onboarding process, you’ll gain expertise in caring for complex patients and strengthen your ability to deliver safe, high-quality care.

In addition, you will be enrolled in our Transition to Practice Program—a year-long, hospital-wide initiative led by our Professional Development team. This program focuses on supporting new nurses throughout their first year, offering mentorship, education, and resources to ensure a successful transition into professional practice.

Our success is rooted in teamwork. You’ll collaborate with unit-based educators, clinical nurse specialists, rehabilitative support staff, and physician providers in a dynamic environment that values compassion—for patients and for each other.

We’re looking for candidates eager to advance their Neuroscience nursing practice, learn from outstanding mentors, and thrive in a multidisciplinary academic setting. Extensive training is provided through a phased approach to support your growth.

Join us during this exciting time of expansion and be part of our evolving Neuroscience program!


Job Summary: The BIDMC Nursing Mission is to build on a legacy of nursing excellence by caring with compassion, advancing the art & science of nursing, and advocating for the health of patients, families, and communities. The Clinical Nurse I utilizes the nursing process as the frame of reference for practice as a professional registered nurse and provides direct patient care to patients and families. This is an entry-level nursing position for new graduate nurses. Training, evaluation and competencies for this role are overseen by a Nurse Leader to the department.

Job Description:

Essential Responsibilities:

1. Provides direct care to patients and makes necessary nursing judgments. Responsible for systematically assessing the health care needs of individuals or groups and for the formulation of a care plan, its implementation and evaluation. Demonstrates the ability for decision making by integrating theoretical knowledge with practical experience in caring for patients.
2. Coordinates the care of patients and directs assistive personnel in order to provide safe, effective, efficient, equitable and timely, patient-centered care. Demonstrates initial awareness of environmental forces on health care of patients and their families. .
3. Develops a collegial and collaborative relationship with other health professionals to determine healthcare needs of patients and families. Learns to develop relationships with patients and families that maintain and communicate trust and respect. Communicates effectively in the exchange of information. Begins to demonstrate the ability to act as a patient advocate
4. Maintains annual mandatory education requirements, which include emergency skills and unit based competencies. Identifies needs for continued growth and development in conjunction with the unit based educator or clinical nurse specialist.
5. Demonstrates a commitment to patients, staff, and to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The individual nursing practice reflects the goals of the Medical Center. Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own nursing practice and patient safety

Required Qualifications:

1. Bachelor's degree in Nursing required.
2. License Registered Nurse required., and Certificate 1 Basic Life Support required.
3. 0-1 years related work experience required.
4. American Heart Association - Basic Life Support Certificate
5. Basic familiarity with computers. Ability to navigate at a basic level within web-based applications.

Competencies:

1. Decision Making: Ability to make decisions that are guided by general instructions and practices requiring some interpretation. May make recommendations for solving problems of m