Graduate Resident Nurse 7 Central Ortho Neurosurgery Trauma 24 Hours Day/Night Rotation
Beth Israel Lahey HealthAbout the role
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.Job Description:
7 Central is a dynamic, high-acuity, 38-bed inpatient medical-surgical unit specializing in Orthopedic Surgery, Neurosurgery, and Trauma care. Our team cares for a diverse patient population and works in close collaboration with the Hospital Medicine team to deliver comprehensive, patient-centered care. Through our specialty focus, we are able to provide highly coordinated, co-managed care tailored to the unique needs of our patients.
At the heart of 7 Central is a strong commitment to teamwork, respect, communication, and integrity. We pride ourselves on fostering a supportive and collaborative environment where nurses are empowered to grow professionally while making a meaningful impact on patient outcomes and experiences. Patient safety, quality care, and family-centered support remain at the core of everything we do.
Joining 7 Central means becoming part of a dedicated and compassionate team in a fast-paced environment that encourages continuous learning, professional development, and clinical excellence.
Position Highlights:
- Flexible scheduling with rotating schedules every 4 weeks (day or night)
- Weekend and holiday rotation commitments required
- Newly licensed nurses participate in a comprehensive year-long Nurse Residency Program
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. <
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