Neuro Step Down Registered Nurse (Experience Required) - 12k SIGN ON BONUS

Job Type : Regular

Time Type : Full time

Work Shift : Rotating (United States of America)

FLSA Status : Non-Exempt

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 premier Neuroscience Specialty Care unit, a 36-bed floor with 18 intermediate care and 18 general neuroscience beds in the Rosenberg Building.

BIDMC Boston is a world-renowned medical center known for their treatment of neurovascular diseases, an accredited Comprehensive Stroke Center, and member of The Brain Aneurysm Institute.

As a Clinical Nurse II, you will engage in an innovative orientation focused on developing Neuroscience nursing clinical competence and confidence through a structured, evidence-based program.

Our patient population includes post-operative neurosurgery, stroke, neuromuscular disorders, traumatic brain injury, neuro-oncology, and epilepsy.

Your onboarding will not only enhance Neuroscience nursing but develop specialized skills and prepare you to care for our intermediate care level of patients that require a higher level of monitoring, post-thrombectomy and TPA patients, caring for external ventriculostomy drains and the initiation of some vasoactive infusions.

Fostering a dynamic team environment and collaborating to address complex patient needs from our unit-based educators, clinical nurse specialists, rehabilitative support staff, and physician providers are the key to our success.

Our team takes great pride in providing kind and compassionate care not only to our patients but in caring for one another.

We seek candidates interested in advancing their Neuroscience nursing practice and learning alongside outstanding clinical mentors but also wanting to be part of a team.

As a multidisciplinary unit within a major academic medical center, extensive training is provided to our nurses to increase their skills via a phased approach.

Join us today during this exciting time of growth and experience the unique opportunity of our expanding Neuroscience program!!

Job Description :

Essential Responsibilities including but not limited to :

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 awareness of environmental forces on health care of patients and their families. Demonstrates the ability to identify resources necessary to implement the plan of care.

Works in a collegial and collaborative relationship with other health professionals to determine healthcare needs of patients and families.

Develops relationships with patients and families that maintain and communicate trust and respect. Communicates effectively in the exchange of information.

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.

Participates in activities that contribute to professional development of self May participate in quality improvement activities.

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

Education :

• Graduate of an accredited Nursing Program required.
• Baccalaureate degree in Nursing strongly preferred.

Experience :

1-3 Years Related Work Experience Required.

License / Certification(s) :

• License Registered Nurse required.
• American Heart Association Basic Life support Certificate required.

We are currently offering a $12,000.00 sign on bonus for this full-time position!

Important Details :

• Must be a new hire to BILH system or a previous employee who left in good standing and returning to BILH after 1 year
• Full time status at BIDMC is considered for schedules greater than or equal to 30 hours per week; part time status is 20 to 29 hours per week.

Please note, per diem employees are not eligible for sign on bonuses.

Please note, sign on bonuses are subject to change based on the organization’s hiring needs and will be determined by Talent Acquisition on an ongoing basis.

BILH / BIDMC Talent Acquisition reserves the right to change sign on bonus eligible jobs and amounts at any time.

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities.

Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) and COVID-19 as a condition of employment.

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Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

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