Nurse Residency - Neuro Intermediate Care (NIMU)- 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. Join our 15-bed Neuroscience Intermediate Care Unit in the Rosenberg Building at BIDMC Boston, a world-renowned medical center and accredited Comprehensive Stroke Center, as part of The Brain Aneurysm Institute.

Our nurse residency program provides a strong foundation in nursing while preparing you to care for a diverse Neuroscience patient population, including post-operative neurosurgery, stroke, neuromuscular disorders, traumatic brain injury, neuro-oncology, and epilepsy. You’ll develop specialized skills to manage intermediate care patients requiring advanced monitoring—such as post-thrombectomy and TNK cases—along with caring for external ventriculostomy drains and initiating select vasoactive infusions.

As a Clinical Nurse I, you’ll participate in an innovative, evidence-based orientation designed to build clinical competence and confidence in Neuroscience nursing. Through a structured onboarding process, you’ll gain expertise in caring for complex patients and strengthen your ability to deliver safe, high-quality care. In addition, you will be enrolled in our Transition to Practice Program—a year-long, hospital-wide initiative led by our Professional Development team. This program focuses on supporting new nurses throughout their first year, offering mentorship, education, and resources to ensure a successful transition into professional practice.

Our success is rooted in teamwork. You’ll collaborate with unit-based educators, clinical nurse specialists, rehabilitative support staff, and physician providers in a dynamic environment that values compassion—for patients and for each other. We’re looking for candidates eager to advance their Neuroscience nursing practice, learn from outstanding mentors, and thrive in a multidisciplinary academic setting. Extensive training is provided through a phased approach to support your growth. Join us during this exciting time of expansion and be part of our evolving Neuroscience program!

Note: Target start date for this role is 1/4/27.

Responsibilities

• Provides direct care to patients and makes necessary nursing judgments.
• Responsible for systematically assessing the health care needs of individuals or groups and for the formulation of a care plan, its implementation and evaluation.
• Demonstrates the ability for decision making by integrating theoretical knowledge with practical experience in caring for patients.
• Coordinates the care of patients and directs assistive personnel in order to provide safe, effective, efficient, equitable and timely, patient-centered care.
• Demonstrates initial awareness of environmental forces on health care of patients and their families.
• 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.
• The individual nursing practice reflects the goals of the Medical Center.
• Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own nursing practice and patient safety.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing required.
• Registered Nurse license required.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required.
• 0–1 years related work experience required.
• American Heart Association – Basic Life Support Certificate.
• Basic familiarity with computers; ability to navigate at a basic level within web-based applications.

Competencies

• Decision Making: Ability to make decisions that are guided by general instructions and practices requiring some interpretation. May make recommendations for solving problems of moderate complexity and importance.
• 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