RN Geri Psych; 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.
• Care Coordination: Coordinates care delivery and transitions in care.
• Health Teaching and Health Promotion: Employs strategies to promote health and a safe environment.
• Evaluation: Evaluates progress toward attainment of outcomes.

Standards of Professional Performance

• Practices ethically.
• P Practices in a manner that is congruent with cultural diversity and inclusion principles.
• Communicates effectively in all areas of practice.
• Collaborates with healthcare consumer and other key stakeholders in the conduct of nursing practice.
• Learns and competences that reflect current nursing practice and promotes futuristic thinking.
• Integrates evidence and research findings into practice.
• Contributes to quality nursing practice.
• Evaluates own and others' nursing practice.
• Utilizes appropriate resources to plan, provide and sustain evidence-based nursing services that are safe, effective and fiscally responsible.
• P 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.
• Specialty certification highly encouraged.

Physical Demands

• Requires prolonged standing; walking; use of sight, hearing, and touch.
• May be exposed to infectious diseases.
• 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.