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Burlington, North Carolina, United States
Onsite
When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.
The mission of the Lahey Clinic Nursing Division is to build on a legacy of nursing excellence by caring with compassion, advancing the art and science of nursing, and advocating for the health of patients, families and communities. The Graduate Resident Nurse utilizes the nursing process as the frame of reference for practice and provides direct patient care, with supervision from a registered professional nurse to patients and families. This is an entry-level nursing position for Graduate Resident Nurses. Training, evaluation, and competencies for this role are overseen by a Nurse Leader in the department. During the first year of employment, you will be enrolled in a Nurse Residency Program. Nurse Leadership will determine a balance of Clinical and Educational time.Job Description:
6 Southeast is a 20 bed Medical Surgical Telemetry Unit providing expert care for a variety of diagnoses with a focus on cardiac and respiratory conditions. Our team is committed to a supportive culture embodied in teamwork, collaboration, and mentorship. We are the designated unit for patients recovering from Feminizing Gender Affirming surgeries and have become passionate advocates for the transgender population. This diverse environment creates an ideal setting for learning opportunities and growth.
Essential Responsibilities including but not limited to:
I. Clinical Judgment and Decision Making: Ways in which nurses come to understand the problems, issues or concerns of patients/families, to attend to relevant/critical information, and to respond in concerned and involved ways.
A. Graduate Resident Nurse is expected to and is accountable for providing safe patient care by demonstrating organizational skills that maintain and coordinate safe delivery of quality care for assigned patients/families.
B. Performs systematic patient and family assessment relevant to practice settings.
C. Delivers care that is specific to the age of the patient.
D. Evaluates effectiveness of care and adapts plan based on patient/family response.
II. Professional Relationship: The professional relationship is based upon Lahey Clinic’s guiding principles and positive effective communication. This relationship extends beyond formal assessment to integrate the particular patient’s response and his/her religious/spiritual, ethnic and cultural beliefs into the plan of care.
A. Establishes professional relationship with nurses, physicians and other colleagues and patients and families.
B. Educates the patient and family about the patient’s illness and treatment including preventative measures appropriate to the patient.
C. Supports Lahey Clinics commitment to community-based activities both within the Lahey community and beyond.
III. Clinical Leadership: The Graduate Resident Nurse supports the development of others and creates a practice climate of responsiveness and learning based on Benner’s Novice to Expert skills acquisition model. This supports the retention and recruitment of clinically competent nurses. The ability to lead and influence the reasoning of colleagues in the patient’s best interest depends on skillful comportment, authoritative clinical knowledge and wisdom, the conviction to act as an ethical agent despite adverse consequences, and the ability to listen and enhance others’ strengths.
A. Demonstrates professional behavior by adhering to unit policies and procedures, practice guidelines specific to the setting and the ANA Code of Ethics.
B. Demonstrates skills as a responsive team member.
C. Demonstrates role of nurse as teacher.
D. Demonstrate ability to fulfill role in Regulatory compliance and readiness.
IV. Clinical Scholarship: The Graduate Resident Nurse achieves clinical scholarship through experiences with patients, through collaboration with colleagues and leadership and through formal education. Learning is transformed into knowledge through self-reflection and analysis.
A. Upholds standards of quality nursing care.
B. Demonstrates a commitment to lifelong learning.
C. Demonstrates evidenced based practice (EBP) in nursing.
Essential Duties including but not limited to:
Organizational Requirements
Minimum Qualifications:
Education
Licensure, Certification, Registration
Experience
Skills & Abilities
Pay Range:
$37.00 - $37.00The 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.
