Nurse Residency

About the Role

This is an entry-level nursing position for new graduate nurses. As a Nurse Resident, you will be automatically enrolled in our Transition to Practice: Nurse Residency Program, a 12-month curriculum designed to complement and enhance your unit-based, precepted clinical orientation. The program empowers newly licensed nurses to successfully transition into clinical practice using a structured, evidence-based approach. The curriculum blends monthly classroom seminars presented by expert facilitators with hands-on precepted work experiences.

Farr 9 is a fast-paced, 34-bed acute care general medical unit with telemetry. The patient population is complex, with a wide range of acute and chronic diagnoses, including patients with eating disorders, COPD, Diabetes, and Sepsis. Patients often have multiple comorbidities with complex social and/or psychiatric disorders and varied ages from 18-100s.

Key Responsibilities

• Provides direct patient care and makes necessary nursing judgments.
• Systematically assesses the healthcare needs of individuals or groups and formulates, implements, and evaluates a care plan.
• Demonstrates decision-making ability by integrating theoretical knowledge with practical experience in patient care.
• Coordinates patient care and directs assistive personnel to provide safe, effective, efficient, equitable, timely, and patient-centered care.
• Demonstrates initial awareness of environmental forces on the healthcare of patients and their families.
• Develops collegial and collaborative relationships with other health professionals to determine patient and family healthcare needs.
• Learns to develop trusting and respectful relationships with patients and families.
• Communicates effectively in the exchange of information.
• Acts as a patient advocate.
• Maintains annual mandatory education requirements, including emergency skills and unit-based competencies.
• Identifies needs for continued growth and development in conjunction with the unit-based educator or clinical nurse specialist.
• Demonstrates commitment to patients, staff, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
• Nursing practice reflects the goals of the Medical Center.
• Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own nursing practice and patient safety.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing
• Registered Nurse license
• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certificate (American Heart Association)
• Basic familiarity with computers
• Ability to navigate at a basic level within web-based applications

Qualifications

• Decision Making: Ability to make decisions guided by general instructions and practices requiring some interpretation. May make recommendations for solving problems of moderate complexity and importance.
• Problem Solving: Ability to address varied problems requiring analysis or interpretation of the situation using direct observation, knowledge, and skills based on general precedents.
• Independence of Action: Ability to follow precedents and procedures. May set priorities and organize work within general guidelines. Seeks assistance when confronted with difficult and/or unpredictable situations. Work progress is monitored by supervisor/manager.
• Written Communications: Ability to summarize and communicate moderately complex information in English 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 full working knowledge of standard concepts, practices, procedures, and policies with the ability to use them in varied situations.
• Team Work: Ability to work collaboratively in small teams to improve the operations of the immediate work group by offering ideas, identifying issues, and respecting team members.
• Customer Service: Ability to provide a high level of customer service to patients, visitors, staff, and external customers in a professional, service-oriented, respectful manner using skills in active listening and problem-solving. Ability to remain calm in stressful situations.

Age Based Competencies

Employees must be competent to provide patient care to the following age groups:

• Neonatal: Birth to 6 months
• Young adult: 16-30 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.

Pay Range: $38.00 - $98.19 per hour

Beth Israel Lahey Health requires all staff to be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.