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Resource Nurse-Critical Care SEIU (36hr DAY-NIGHT)

Boston Medical Center

Boston, MA

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JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Acute Care, Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Ambulatory Care, American Association Critical Care Nurse (AACN), American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), Analysis Skills, Cerebral Vascular Accident, Clinical Medicine, Clinical Support, Code Blue, Communication Skills, Course Development, Critical Care, Critical Care Registered Nurse (CCRN), Data Entry, Emergency Care, Emergency Nursing, Emergency Response, Epic Systems, Healthcare, Hospital, Identify Issues, Intensive Care, Medical Record System, Medical Records, Medicine, Needs Assessment, Network Support, Nursing, Patient Care, Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), Pediatric Nursing, Pediatrics, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Problem Solving Skills, Quality of Care, Registered Nurse (RN), Team Player, Time Management, Training/Teaching, Trauma-Neuro Intensive Care (TNCC)
LOCATION
Boston, MA
POSTED
30+ days ago
The Critical Care Resource Nurse (CCRN) team is a unique model created using the conceptual framework of the AACN Synergy Model for patient care. The goal of the CCRN team is to help align nurse competencies with immediate patient care needs and is designed to assist the bedside nurse and providers with complex/high acuity patients needing expert monitoring or emergent intervention. The CCRN works within their scope of practice to provide clinical support in all inpatient care areas of the hospital including med surg, pediatric and maternal child health, adult and pediatric emergency departments, intensive care units, the intraprocedural platform and select onsite ambulatory care areas as needed.

Position: Resource Nurse

Location: Critical Care

Schedule: Full Time (Day/Night)

Boston Medical Center (BMC) is more than a hospital. It's a network of support and care that touches the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in need each year, providing care to some of Boston's most acute, complex and vulnerable patients. It is the largest and busiest Level I trauma center in New England. The medical center is the primary teaching affiliate of the nationally ranked Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), a founding partner of Boston HealthNet, and has achieved Magnet designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Emphasizing community-based care, BMC is committed to providing consistently excellent and accessible health services to all-and is the largest safety-net hospital in New England. We recognize the importance of improving the overall health and wellbeing of our nurses, patients and the community we serve, and we embrace a diverse workforce to achieve these outcomes. Join BMC today and help us achieve our Vision 2030 which is a long-term goal to make Boston the healthiest urban population in the world.

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Critical Care Resource Nurse (CCRN) team is a unique model created using the conceptual framework of the AACN Synergy Model for patient care. The goal of the CCRN team is to help align nurse competencies with immediate patient care needs and is designed to assist the bedside nurse and providers with complex/high acuity patients needing expert monitoring or emergent intervention. The CCRN works within their scope of practice to provide clinical support in all inpatient care areas of the hospital including med surg, pediatric and maternal child health, adult and pediatric emergency departments, intensive care units, the intraprocedural platform and select onsite ambulatory care areas as needed.

EDUCATION, CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, AND REGISTRATIONS REQUIRED:
  • Requires license to practice professional nursing as a Registered Nurse in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
  • Requires up to date BLS, ACLS, TNCC, PALS, ENLS, NIHSS

EXPERIENCE:
  • Minimum of 5 years of adult critical care nursing experience required
  • Candidates with additional well rounded clinical experience including but not limited to med surg, emergency nursing , pediatric/ maternal child health backgrounds preferred

Primary Responsibilities and Clinical Competencies:

  • Utilizes the nursing process to deliver patient centered care; must function at the expert level of assessing, diagnosing, planning, implementing and evaluating

  • Responds to and plays a pivotal role of the adult and pediatric Rapid Response, Code Blue Resuscitation, Emergency Airway Response and Code Stroke teams, in addition to the inpatient and ambulatory Proceed Out Teams

  • Leads the Early Warning Response team (EWS) to respond to sudden clinical changes in patient condition aiming to prevent clinical deterioration

  • Acts as collaborative member of the interdisciplinary care team to support patients and bedside nurses and providers using evidenced based practice to ensure that patients benefits from the care delivery system

  • Responsible for completing annual mandatory educational requirements, safety training and maintains all required licensures and certifications

  • Identifies own learning needs and assumes responsibility for maintaining current knowledge, competency and nursing expertise

Other Competencies

  • Decision Making: demonstrates ability to make sound and timely decisions that are guided by precedents, policy & procedure and overall goals and objectives, is able to choose the best course of action based on analysis of available information, and can develop alternative courses of action
  • Problem Solving: demonstrates ability to address clinical and patient care needs by analyzing the situation and applying critical thinking skills to implement a solution
  • Communication Skills: demonstrates the ability to articulate thoughts and present complex clinical and patient care information using oral, written, and non-verbal communication skills, able to employ active listening skills to gain clarity, having the ability to gather and deliver information in person, in writing, and electronically/digitally
  • Computer/technology skills: demonstrates ability to access and enter data within the EPIC EHR system and from the BMC HUB
  • Team Work: demonstrates the ability to work with others toward a shared goal, share responsibility and rewards with team members, having the ability to recognize combined actions of the group leads to overall success of the team
  • Aspire to BMC's core values: built on respect, powered by empathy; move mountains; and many faces create our greatness

Boston Medical Center is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. If you need accommodation for any part of the application process because of a medical condition or disability, please send an e-mail to Talentacquisition@bmc.org or call 617-638-8582 to let us know the nature of your request.

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Req id: 31409

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