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Registered Nurse - Intensive Care Unit
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Date Posted: 24 Dec, 2024
Job Summary:
The registered nurse adheres to the rules and regulations of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing and is primarily responsible for professional performance and direct patient care. The role encompasses nursing assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, evaluation, and coordination of care for patients and their families across the health care continuum. The registered nurse is accountable for clinical, educational, quality, and fiscal patient care outcomes using the model of care designed by the nursing department and in accordance with established agency policies, procedures, protocols, guidelines, and standards of practice.
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform nursing assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, and evaluation.
- Coordinate care for patients and their families across the health care continuum.
- Ensure clinical, educational, quality, and fiscal patient care outcomes.
- Adhere to agency policies, procedures, protocols, guidelines, and standards of practice.
Required Qualifications:
- Graduate of a nursing degree program; BSN preferred.
- Licensed to practice professional nursing as a registered nurse in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
- Current basic life support (BLS) certification.
- Some units may require Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification.
Knowledge and Skills:
- Current basic cardiac life support certification.
- Basic computer proficiency, including the ability to access, enter, and interpret computerized data/information.
- Effective interpersonal skills to facilitate communication with various members of the health care team, patients, and families.
- Organizational skills to set priorities and efficiently complete assigned work.
- Multilingual skills (beyond English) in languages appropriate to the patient populations served by the medical center preferred.
- Relevant clinical experience and/or specialty certification required for certain practice areas (e.g., enteral therapy, epidemiology, peri-operative areas).
- Analytical ability to solve clinical nursing issues and conduct quality improvement research utilization projects.
- Ability to effectively delegate appropriate patient care activities.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills appropriate to the patient populations served.
- Physical ability to meet the core job responsibilities following practice setting demands for the patient populations regularly served.
- Ability to effectively manage stress due to critical issues related to patient care, changing organizational climate, and personnel issues.
Certification: Advanced Cardiac Life support , Basic Life Support
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