Clinical Nurse II

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

Utilizes the nursing process as the frame of reference for practice as a professional registered nurse and provides direct nursing care to patients and families.

Essential Responsibilitiesincluding but not limited to:

• Provides direct care to patients and makes necessary nursing judgments. Responsible for systematically assessing the healthcare needs of individuals or groups and for the formulation of a care plan, its implementation, and evaluation.
• Coordinates the care of patients and directs assistive personnel to provide safe, effective, efficient, equitable and timely, patient-centered care.
• Works in a collegial and collaborative relationship with other health professionals to determine healthcare needs of patients and families.
• Maintains annual mandatory education requirements, which include emergency skills and unit-based competencies.
• Demonstrates a commitment to patients, staff, and to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

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.

Competencies

• Decision Making: Ability to make decisions guided by general instructions and practices requiring some interpretation.
• Problem Solving: Ability to address varied problems using direct observation, knowledge, and skills based on general precedents.
• Independence of Action: Ability to follow precedents and procedures, seeks assistance when necessary.
• Written Communications: Ability to communicate clearly in written English.
• Oral Communications: Ability to converse in English with medical center staff, patients, and families.
• Knowledge: Demonstrates full working knowledge of standard concepts and practices.
• Team Work: Ability to act as a team leader, creating a collaborative environment.
• Customer Service: Ability to provide high-level customer service in a professional manner.

Age based Competencies

Competent to provide patient care to the following age groups: Neonatal, Young adult, Middle Age, Elderly.

Social/Environmental Requirements

• Work requires periods of close attention to work without interruption.
• Work requires constant response to changing circumstances.
• Potential exposure to adverse environmental conditions.

Sensory Requirements

• Close work, Visual examination, Color vision/perception.

Physical Requirements

Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently.

This job requires constant walking, standing, bending, twisting, and lifting patients.