Endoscopy RN Per Diem; Registered Nurse

Overview

To be part of our organization, every employee should understand and share in the YNHHS Vision, support our Mission, and live our Values. These values - integrity, patient-centered, respect, accountability, and compassion - must guide what we do, as individuals and professionals, every day.

Responsibilities

• Practices professional nursing as a registered nurse within the legal and ethical framework established by the Connecticut Nurse Practice Act, American Nurses Association Scope and Standards for Nursing Practice, ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses and the YNHHS Professional Practice Model.
• Exemplifies the qualities of leadership, delegation, collaboration, effective communication, ensuring quality outcomes.
• Provides care that establishes and maintains a therapeutic relationship with the patient and family, includes communicating and working collaboratively with the patient, family and health care team members, respects the patient's values, preferences, expressed needs and knowledge of the healthcare situation in holistic data collection, in formulating health care outcomes and in the evaluation process.

Standards of Practice

• Assessment: Collects pertinent data and information relative to the healthcare consumer's health or situation.
• Diagnosis: Analyzes the assessment data to determine the actual and potential diagnoses or the issues.
• Outcomes Identification: Identifies expected outcomes for a plan individualized to the healthcare consumer or the situation.
• Planning: Develops and modifies a plan of care that prescribes strategies and alternatives to attain expected outcomes.
• Implementation: Implements the identified plan.
• Clinical Specialty Certification: Encouraged.

Standards of Professional Performance

• Ethics: Practices ethically.
• Culturally Congruent Practice: Practices in a manner that is congruent with cultural diversity and inclusion principles.
• Communication: Communicates effectively in all areas of practice.
• Collaboration: Collaborates with healthcare consumer and other key stakeholders in the conduct of nursing practice.
• Ledership: Leads within the professional practice setting and the profession.
• Education: Seeks knowledge and competence that reflects current nursing practice and promotes futuristic thinking.
• Evidence-Based Practice and Research: Integrates evidence and research findings into practice.
• Quality of Practice: Contributes to quality nursing practice.
• Professional Practice Evaluation: Evaluates own and others' nursing practice.
• Resource Utilization: Utilizes appropriate resources to plan, provide and sustain evidence-based nursing services that are safe, effective and fiscally responsible.
• Environmental Health: Practices in an environmentally safe and healthy manner.

Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing. BSN preferred.
• All newly hired registered nurses must have current BCLS certification or must obtain within one month of hire.
• Licensed and a currently registered nurse in the State of Connecticut.
• Clinical specialty certification highly encouraged.
• Requires prolonged standing; walking; use of sight, hearing, and touch. May be exposed to infectious diseases. Will be exposed to physical, mental and emotional illness as well as end of life conditions and death. Moderate stress and risk of injury from patient care.
• Standing/walking for more than half of the day. Frequently bending, reaching, pushing, pulling, twisting and lifting. Must be able to assist pushing/pulling/lifting patients ranging from five (5) to three hundred (300) pounds.