Graduate Resident Nurse, 7 Central, Ortho Neurosurgery Trauma, 36 Hours, Nights

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

The mission of the Lahey Hospital & Medical Center (LHMC) Nursing Division is to build on a legacy of nursing excellence by caring with compassion, advancing the art and science of nursing, and advocating for the health of patients, families and communities. The Graduate Resident Nurse utilizes the nursing process as the frame of reference for practice and provides direct patient care, with supervision from a registered professional nurse to patients and families. This is an entry-level nursing position for Graduate Resident Nurses. Training, evaluation, and competencies for this role are overseen by a Nurse Leader in the department. During the first year of employment, you will be enrolled in a Nurse Residency Program. Nurse Leadership will determine a balance of Clinical and Educational time.

**7 Central** is a unique, high-energy, fast-paced, 38-bed inpatient medical-surgical unit specializing in Orthopedic Surgery, Neurosurgery, and Trauma. We care for a diverse range of patients and collaborate closely with the Hospital Medicine team to provide comprehensive care. Our focus on these specialties enables us to co-manage care for our specialty patients as needed.

Our unit values include teamwork, respect, communication, and honesty. We are deeply committed to delivering the highest level of nursing care, with the patient, their safety, and their families at the core of our mission. You can be assured that your contributions will be both significant and impactful.

We invite you to become part of our exceptional team, where you will have the opportunity to develop your professional skills and knowledge in a dynamic and supportive environment!

- Flexible Scheduling
- Schedule includes weekend & holiday rotation commitments
- Newly Licensed Nurses will participate in a year-long Nurse Residency Program

Job Description:

Essential Responsibilities including but not limited to:

I.    Clinical Judgment and Decision Making: Ways in which nurses come to understand the problems, issues or concerns of patients/families, to attend to relevant/critical information, and to respond in concerned and involved ways.
A.    Graduate Resident Nurse is expected to and is accountable for providing safe patient care by demonstrating organizational skills that maintain and coordinate safe delivery of quality care for assigned patients/families. 

• Develops a culturally competent plan of care that identifies patient problems, expected outcomes, and addresses preventative measures.

B.    Performs systematic patient and family assessment relevant to practice settings.
C.    Delivers care that is specific to the age of the patient.
D.    Evaluates effectiveness of care and adapts plan based on patient/family response.

II.    Professional Relationship: The professional relationship is based upon Lahey Clinic’s guiding principles and positive effective communication. This relationship extends beyond formal assessment to integrate the particular patient’s response and his/her religious/spiritual, ethnic and cultural beliefs into the plan of care.

A.    Establishes professional relationship with nurses, physicians and other colleagues and patients and families.

• The relationship includes the patient and family as a partner in care and is based upon Swanson’s Theory of Caring.

B.    Educates the patient and family about the patient’s illness and treatment including preventative measures appropriate to the patient.
C.    Supports Lahey Clinics commitment to community-based activities both within the Lahey community and beyond.

III.    Clinical Leadership:  The Graduate Resident Nurse supports the development of others and creates a practice climate of responsiveness and learning based on Benner’s Novice to Expert skills acquisition model.  This supports the retention and recruitment of clinically competent nurses.   The ability to lead and influence the reasoning of colleagues in the patient’s best interest depends on skillful comportment, authoritative clinical knowledge and wisdom, the conviction to act as an ethical agent despite adverse consequences, and the ability to listen and enhance others’ strengths.  

A.    Demonstrates professional behavior by adhering to unit policies and procedures, practice guidelines specific to the setting and the ANA Code of Ethics. 
B.    Demonstrates skills as a responsive team member.
C.    Demonstrates role of nurse as teacher.
D.    Demonstrate ability to fulfill role in Regulatory compliance and readiness.

IV.    Clinical Scholarship: The Graduate Resident Nurse achieves clinical scholarship through experien