Registered Nurse - Pre Operative

Overview\nJoin our dedicated healthcare team, where every employee embodies the vision and values of our organization. At Bridgeport Hospital, we are passionately committed to providing quality medical care tailored to the unique needs of each patient. Our approach centers around creating a Patient-Centered Medical Home, ensuring that patients are at the heart of their care team. We believe every staff member plays an integral role in promoting access to continuous, comprehensive care while striving for quality improvement.\n\nAs a key member of the Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) healthcare team, you will uphold our mission, vision, values, and strategic initiatives to deliver exceptional patient-centered care. The Registered Professional Nurse (RN) functions within the legal and ethical framework guided by the Connecticut Nurse Practice Act, American Nurses Association Scope and Standards for Nursing Practice, and the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses. The RN exemplifies leadership qualities, effective collaboration, and communication to ensure high-quality outcomes.\n\nYour role is defined by our professional practice model, emphasizing autonomy and accountability. You will provide care that builds therapeutic relationships with patients and families, considers cultural diversity, and encourages collaboration with healthcare team members. It includes respecting our patients' values, preferences, and expressed needs throughout the healthcare process.\n\nResponsibilities\n

• Standards of Practice : You will utilize the nursing process components, including assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation to deliver competent nursing care.\n
• Assessment : Collect pertinent data to evaluate the healthcare consumer's health.\n
• Diagnosis : Analyze data to identify actual or potential diagnoses.\n
• Outcomes Identification : Identify expected outcomes for individualized care plans.\n
• Planning : Develop and modify care plans with strategies to achieve outcomes.\n
• Implementation : Implement the identified care plan effectively.\n
• Coordination of Care : Coordinate seamless transitions in care delivery.\n
• Health Teaching : Promote health and create a safe environment.\n
• Evaluation : Assess progress toward achieving outcomes.\n\nStandards of Professional Performance : Engaging in ethical practices, culturally congruent care, effective communication, collaboration, leadership, education, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, professional practice evaluation, resource utilization, and environmental health are essential expectations.\n\nQualifications\n
• Education : Graduate from an accredited nursing program; BSN preferred. Current BCLS certification required within one month of hire.\n
• Experience : Registered Nurse foundational responsibilities apply; all RNs are encouraged to advance through the SPIRE clinical advancement program.\n
• Licensure : Must be a currently registered nurse in the State of Connecticut. Clinical specialty certification is highly encouraged.\n
• Special Skills : Encouragement to participate in the SPIRE clinical advancement program.\n\nPhysical Demands : \nThis position requires prolonged standing and walking, use of sight, hearing, and touch. Potential exposure to infectious diseases, as well as physical, mental, and emotional challenges associated with patient care. You will need to stand and walk for most of the day while frequently bending, reaching, pushing, pulling, twisting, and lifting. Ability to assist in moving patients weighing from five (5) to three hundred (300) pounds is necessary.\n\nAdditional Information : \nThis position is covered by the Connecticut Healthcare Associates Collective Bargaining Agreement. Orthopedic RN experience is preferred.\n\nYNHHS Requisition ID : 162257