Registered Nurse- Peabody Operating Room- Per Diem

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

Join Our Perioperative Team in Peabody!
Lahey Hospital & Medical Centers Peabody campus is hiring an experienced Operating Room RN to join our dynamic Perioperative team.
Peabody Medical Center features a state-of-the-art Ambulatory Surgery and Medical Center with 5 Operating Rooms. Were looking for a skilled nurse with 2 years of OR experience who thrives in a fast-paced collaborative environment.

Under the general supervision of the Nurse Manager/Assistant Nurse Manager/Tertiary Team Leader the Staff Registered Nurse: Tertiary Care practices within the Lahey Clinic Professional Practice Model MA Nurse Practice Act ANA Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics and demonstrates Lahey Clinics core values that reflect its Mission. The nurse-patient/family relationship continuity of care and accountability are central to the delivery of individualized high quality patient care.

A Staff Registered Nurse: Tertiary Care demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide expected standards of care based on physical psychosocial cultural educational spiritual safety and age-appropriate considerations of patients.

The Staff Registered Nurse: Tertiary Care in accordance with the Nurse Practice Act of Massachusetts Rules & Regulations- 244 CMR 3.0 shall bear full and ultimate responsibility for the quality of nursing care he/she provides to individuals and groups. Included in such responsibility are health maintenance teaching counseling collaborative planning and restoration of optimal functioning and comfort or for the dignified death of those they serve.

The Staff Registered Nurse: Tertiary Care assumes the responsibility for the plan of care and has the authority to make decisions and is held accountable for decisions specific to assessment planning implementation and evaluation of the plan. The registered nurse facilitates the coordination of care across the continuum and demonstrates safe practice within the domains of:
Clinical judgment and decision making
Professional Relationships
Clinical leadership
Clinical scholarship

A responsibility and function of the Staff Registered Nurse: Tertiary Care includes Delegation & Supervision in accordance with the Nurse Practice Act of Massachusetts Rules & Regulations- 244 CMR 3.0 Registered Nurse and Licensed Practical Nurse: Board of Registration in Nursing and the ANA Principles of Delegation. The delegating registered nurse at Lahey Clinic bears the full and ultimate responsibility that includes but is not limited to:

Making an appropriate assignment
Properly and adequately teaching directing and supervising the delegate
The outcome of the delegation

The Staff Registered Nurse: Tertiary Care provides care directly to patients and in collaboration with other health care team members. The Staff Registered Nurse: Tertiary Care maintains a current level of knowledge and skill with technical procedures as defined by nursing specialty organization complies with all regulations and standards of regulatory and accrediting bodies and is currently licensed in the state of Massachusetts as a registered nurse.


Per Diem Requirements per department guidelines: Day shift 7-5:30pm

Job Description:

Essential Duties & 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. The Staff Registered Nurse: Tertiary Care 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.
Develops a culturally competent plan of care that identifies patient problems expected outcomes and addresses preventative measures.
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 Clinics guiding principles and positive effective communication. This relationship extends beyond formal assessment to integrate the particular patients 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.
The relationship includes the patient and family as a partner in care and is based upon Swansons Theory of Caring.
B. Educates the patient and family about the patients 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 Staff Registered Nurse: Tertiary Care supports the development of others and creates a practice climate of responsiveness and learning based on Benners 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 patients 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 Staff Registered Nurse: Tertiary Care 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 life long learning.
C. Demonstrates evidenced based practice (EBP) in nursing.

Organizational Requirements:
Incorporates Lahey Clinic Guiding Principles Mission Statement and Goals into daily activities.
Complies with all Lahey Clinic Policies.
Complies with behavioral expectations of the department and Lahey Clinic.
Maintains courteous and effective interactions with colleagues and patients.
Demonstrates an understanding of the job description performance expectations and competency assessment.
Demonstrates a commitment toward meeting and exceeding the needs of our customers and consistently adheres to Customer Service standards.
Participates in departmental and/or interdepartmental quality improvement activities.
Participates in and successfully completes Mandatory Education.
Performs all other duties as needed or directed to meet the needs of the department.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education: Graduate of a state approved and/or accredited School of Nursing

Licensure Certification Registration:
Current license to practice professional nursing from the Massachusetts Board of Registration
BLS certification from American Heart Association or American Red Cross.

Skills Knowledge & Abilities:
Clinical Skills/Technical Knowledge
a. Demonstrates the necessary clinical skills and technical knowledge to provide care for patients according to Nursing Policy and Procedures. See Skill Record.
b. Demonstrates the necessary clinical skills and knowledge to provide care for patients according to the unit-specific competencies. See Skill Record.
c. Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills.

Experience: Minimum 1 year of Nursing experience in an Operating Room

Pay Range:

$37.00 - $95.37

The 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 geographyof 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.

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) as a condition of employment.

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