Per Diem - Staff Nurse Inpt

Status

Part-Time

Standard Hours per Week

1

Job Posting Category

Nursing

Job Posting Description

This per diem Staff Nurse will be responsible for:

• Caring for post-operative patients. Age range infants to young adults. Specialties include: Orthopedics/Sports Medicine, ORL, Urology, Plastics, Ophthalmology.
• Assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating for a complex patient population.
• Attending to the full range of human experiences and responses to health and illness, without restriction, to a problem-focus orientation; integrating objective data with knowledge gained from an understanding of the patients or group’s subjective experiences.
• Applying scientific knowledge to the process of diagnosis and treatment.
• Providing a caring relationship that facilitates health and healing.
• Collaborating with the clinical coordinator, assisting in the coordination of patient care services for area(s) of responsibility.

To qualify, you must have:

• A Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
• Minimum of three years inpatient acute pediatric experience preferred. 
• Excellent communication skills and clinical judgment required along with the ability to provide thorough patient education and to work in collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team.
• The analytical skills to resolve highly complex problems requiring the application of clinical, scientific or technical principles, theories and concepts and in‑depth, cross‑functional experienced‑based knowledge.
• PALS certification.

*This position is per diem (4 shifts in 6 weeks) with night/weekend rotation.  The Waltham Pediatric Inpatient Unit is an 11 bed Surgical Unit, with a typical length of stay of 24 to 72 hours.
 

Office/Site Location

Waltham

Regular, Temporary, Per Diem

Per Diem

Remote Eligibility

Onsite Only