Nurse Residency- Farr 9- Medicine Telemetry- 36hr Rotating

About 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. Farr 9 is a fast-paced 34-bed acute care general medical unit with telemetry. Patient population is complex with a wide range of acute and chronic diagnoses including patients with Eating disorders, COPD, Diabetes, and Sepsis. Patient’s often with multiple comorbidities with complex social and/or psychiatric disorders. Patients with varied ages ranging from 18-100’s must be able to work with an energetic team on this busy unit.

Responsibilities

• Provides direct care to patients and makes necessary nursing judgments.
• Systematically assesses the health care needs of individuals or groups and formulates a care plan, its implementation and evaluation.
• Demonstrates the ability for decision making by integrating theoretical knowledge with practical experience in caring for patients.
• Captures coordination of care and directs assistive personnel to provide safe, effective, efficient, equitable and timely, patient-centered care.
• Develops a collegial and collaborative relationship with other health professionals to determine healthcare needs of patients and families.
• Learns to develop relationships with patients and families that maintain and communicate trust and respect.
• Communicates effectively in the exchange of information.
• Begins to demonstrate the ability to act as a patient advocate.
• Maintains annual mandatory education requirements, which include emergency skills and unit based competencies.
• Identifies needs for continued growth and development in conjunction with the unit based educator or clinical nurse specialist.
• Demonstrates a commitment to patients, staff, and to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing required.
• License Registered Nurse required.
• Basic Life Support certificate required.
• Up to 1 year related work experience required.
• Basic familiarity with computers and ability to navigate web-based applications.

Skills

Decision Making: Ability to make decisions that are guided by general instructions and practices requiring some interpretation.

Problem Solving: Ability to address problems that are varied, requiring analysis or interpretation of the situation using direct observation, knowledge and skills based on general precedents.

Independence of Action: Ability to follow precedents and procedures. May set priorities and organize work within general guidelines. Seeks assistance when confronted with difficult and/or unpredictable situations.

Written Communications: Ability to summarize and communicate in English moderately complex information in varied written formats to internal and external customers.

Oral Communications: Ability to comprehend and communicate complex verbal information in English to medical center staff, patients, families and external customers.

Knowledge: Ability to demonstrate full working knowledge of standard concepts, practices, procedures and policies with the ability to use them in varied situations.

Team Work: Ability to work collaboratively in small teams to improve the operations of immediate work group by offering ideas, identifying issues, and respecting team members.

Customer Service: Ability to provide a high level of customer service to patients, visitors, staff and external customers in a professional, service-oriented, respectful manner using skills in active listening and problem solving.

Physical Nature Of The Job: Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and or up to 20 pounds of force frequently. Job is physical in nature and employee needs to stand and/or move around through the majority of their shift.

Pay

The pay range listed for this position is the base hourly wage range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law. Compensation may exceed the base hourly rate depending on shift differentials, call pay, premium pay, overtime pay, and other additional pay practices, as applicable to the position and in accordance with the law.