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Boston, TX - USA

Monthly Salary drjobs

Not Disclosed

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Salary Not Disclosed

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

When you join the growing BILH team youre not just taking a job youre making a difference in peoples lives.

The BIDMC Nursing Mission is to build on a legacy of nursing excellence by caring with compassion advancing the art & science of nursing and advocating for the health of patients families and communities. The Nurse Specialist (T1) acts as a clinical leader with the primary goal of continuous improvement of patient outcomes and safe nursing practice. Partners with the Nursing Director in leading the professional practice at BIDMC. Maintains current professional knowledge/competencies and contributes to the advancement of nursing practice at the unit system local and/or national level. Training evaluation and competencies for this role are overseen by a Nurse Leader to the department.

Job Description:

Essential Responsibilities:

  • Acts as a clinical leader who supports the development of staff utilizing the latest evidencebased practice relative to safe costeffective and optimal nursing care.
  • Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team to integrate the holistic nursing approach into a comprehensive plan of care for the patient/family. Identifies and prioritizes nursing care needs for a select population of patients/families.
  • Develops and implements care conferences or programs for individual patients or populations of patients. Designs and evaluates innovative educational programs for patients/families the community and other healthcare providers.
  • Creates and updates nursing policies protocols and procedures using evidencebased data to develop nursesensitive indicators in order to achieve positive outcomes.
  • Collaborates with nurse specialists unit based educators and nursing directors on the creation and implementation of orientation clinical competencies and other clinical educational program development. Mentors nurses in the acquisition of new skills the effective incorporation of evidence into practice and in career development.
  • Participates in the identification selection implementation and evaluation of products and equipment.
  • Collaborates with nursing colleagues and other health care professionals in conducting research and publishing scholarly works representing BIDMC locally and nationally.

Required Qualifications:

  • Masters degree in Nursing required.
  • License Registered Nurse required
  • American Heart Association Basic Life support Certificate required.
  • 35 years related work experience required.
  • Experience with computer systems required including web based applications and some Microsoft Office applications which may include Outlook Word Excel PowerPoint or Access.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Five years of successful work experience in nursing with two years in a specialty area.
  • Current Clinical Nurse Specialist certification. Current Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) license to practice in Massachusetts.
  • Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification.

Competencies:

Decision Making: Ability to make decisions that are guided by precedents policies and objectives. Regularly makes decisions and recommendations on issues affecting a department or functional area.

Problem Solving: Ability to address problems that are highly varied complex and often nonrecurring requiring staff input innovative creative and Lean diagnostic techniques to resolve issues.

Independence of Action: Ability to set goals and determines how to accomplish defined results with some guidelines. Manager/Director provides broad guidance and overall direction.

Written Communications: Ability to summarize and communicate in English moderately complex information in varied written formats to internal and external customers.

Oral Communications: Ability to comprehend and communicate complex verbal information in English to medical center staff patients families and external customers.

Knowledge: Ability to demonstrate indepth knowledge of concepts practices and policies with the ability to use them in complex varied situations.

Team Work: Ability to lead and direct multiple collaborative teams for large projects or groups both internal and external to the Medical Center and across functional areas. Results have significant implications for the management and operations of the organization.

Customer Service: Ability to provide a high level of customer service and staff training to meet customer service standards and expectations for the assigned unit(s). Resolves service issues in the assigned unit(s) in a timely and respectful manner.

Age based Competencies:
Employees in this job must be competent to provide patient care to the following age groups: Neonatal:Birth to 6 months Young adult: 1630 years Middle Age: 30 60 years Elderly: 60 .
Physical Nature of the Job:
Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and or up to 20 pounds of force frequently. Job is physical in nature and employee needs to stand and/or move around through the majority of their shift.

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 COVID19 as a condition of employment. Learn more about this requirement.

More than 35000 people working together. Nurses doctors technicians therapists researchers teachers and more making a difference in patients lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled


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Employment Type

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