OR Registered Nurse

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

REGISTERED NURSE-PER DIEM

Job Description:

JOB SUMMARY:

Beth Israel Lahey Health and New England Baptist Hospital are devoted to consistently promoting a culture of Wellbeing, Empathy, Collaboration, Accountability, Respect, and Equity as outlined in our organization's WE CARE values which can be reviewed here Our Values.

The Registered Nurse systematically and continuously collects and assesses data in collaboration with the interprofessional team to provide therapeutic care with the patient and/or family. He/she performs all required elements of a nursing assessment including but not limited to physical examination, assessment of readiness to learn, psychosocial assessment, functional assessment and utilization of patient/family specific assessment scales as required.

The Registered Nurse is an active member of the inter-professional team and collaborates in the development, execution and evaluation of the interprofessional plan of care or critical pathway. The Registered Nurse considers factors related to safety, effectiveness and cost in planning and delivering care. The Registered Nurse's decisions and actions with patients and families are determined in an ethical manner.

The Registered Nurse establishes goals and strategies for meeting the discharge or continuing care needs with the patient, family, and/or other care provider. The Registered Nurse provides care in collaboration with other nursing staff members; he/she delegates and supervises care in accordance with nurse practice acts and the professional nursing role.

The Registered Nurse utilizes evidence-based practice and research findings in his/her practice. He/she demonstrates knowledge of and participates in continuous improvement activities. The Registered Nurse acquires and maintains knowledge in nursing practice and assumes responsibility for the professional development of self, other nursing staff and students.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES (including but not limited to):

The registered nurse systematically and continuously collects and assesses data in collaboration with the interprofessional team to provide therapeutic care with the patient and family.

• Establishes an in-depth data base by assessing the behavioral and physiologic status of the patient utilizing interview, observation, physical examination, and other available data.
• Integrates nursing interventions into the interprofessional plan of care, incorporating appropriate standards of care and practice and patient outcomes.
• Implements safe, competent, and efficient patient and family care within policies, procedures and standards, and interventions as noted on the interprofessional plan of care.
• Sets priorities adapting to changing patient and unit/clinic situations. In response to data indicating urgent and/or emergent risk to patient, initiates action to reduce or correct risk.
• Assumes responsibility and accountability for effectively managing nursing care of individual patients/families as a team member.
• Documents the nursing process to reflect a comprehensive and integrated approach to patient and family care.
• Evaluates patient's responses to care based on effectiveness of nursing interventions/actions in relationship to established outcomes and consults with Medical Staff, Surgical Team, Hospitalist Team, Clinical Leader, Case Manager, and Rehabilitation Team regarding clinical variances and recommended changes to the plan of care.
• Identifies learning needs of patients/families and teaches by adapting standard information to provide individualized and comprehensive teaching and learning.

Quality and Patient Safety

• The registered nurse systematically and continuously collects and assesses data in collaboration with the interprofessional team to monitor outcomes of care processes.
• Use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of healthcare systems.
• Performs services in compliance with established practice standards, policies, procedures, protocols, guidelines, statutes and regulations
• Participates in hospital and/or unit-based patient safety and quality activities and uses principles to support and improve patient outcomes.
• Minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
• Demonstrates professional commitment and is responsible for ensuring patient safety.

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