Emergency Department Nurse / August Cohort

36 HOURS ROTATING

Excellent Care to Patients and Families • The Best Staff • In the Safest Environment

Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) is an international leader in health care delivery and has been the site of pioneering breakthroughs that have improved lives around the world. A 793-bed teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School in Boston, it is internationally renowned for excellence in patient care, groundbreaking biomedical research, and training the next generation of leading physicians and scientists. BWH has been recognized for over 20 years by US News & World Report as one of America's Best Hospitals and provides care to patients from throughout the U.S. and from over 120 other countries in virtually every area of adult medicine.

Just as we have been able to reinvent health care, we have also transformed health care careers. Whether measured in terms of lives saved, awards earned, or the personal satisfaction of stretching your talents - a career with BWH is unlike any other in the health care field. Here you'll find a workplace where collaboration and teamwork are the norm, not the exception - physicians, nurses, technicians, staff and management form a close-knit bond, based on mutual respect and devotion to our patients. If you want an enormously fulfilling career, there's no better place to be.

The Emergency Department at Brigham and Women's Hospital provides the most advanced and personalized emergency medical care possible to every patient who comes through our doors. We care for nearly 60,000 patients each year (365 days a year and 24 hours a day), serving people from throughout the city of Boston, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and New England.

As part of our goal to provide the best possible care for our patients, we recently developed a new patient- and family-centered model and expanded our ED space. This new approach is designed to deliver efficient, personalized, high-quality care; improve patient satisfaction; and accommodate increasing patient volume.

Position Summary:

The Registered Nurse is a professional nurse registered in Massachusetts who is responsible and accountable for planning and providing patient care for assigned patients in accordance with Nursing Standards of Care as set forth in the Nursing Department's Clinical Practice Manual. The registered nurse demonstrates initiative, knowledge and clinical skills in caring for the patient with complex needs. The Registered Nurse demonstrates the ability to effectively manage patients by assuming full responsibility for the assessment, plan, implementation and evaluation responsible to a designated nurse manager, or supervisor.

Responsibilities:

• Providing care for patients in the Emergency Department.

• Working collaboratively to provide excellent care to patients and families in the safest environment.

Requirements:

• Education: Graduate of an approved school of nursing with current registration in Massachusetts. For newly licensed nurses, a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing is required.

• Experience: Emergency Department RN experience preferred

• BLS/ACLS/TNCC preferred

• Other: Membership in professional organizations is recommended and certification in specialty area is encouraged.

Orientation:

• Newly licensed nurses will be provided a comprehensive competency-based orientation before working independently with our emergency observation patient population. Multiple sources of practice development and support comprise the orientation of the newly licensed nurses in the ED including:

1. centralized hospital orientation educational offerings: practice specific courses (e.g., basic dysrhythmia workshop, Trach care, Inter-professional Team Training), newly licensed nurse hands-on skills training, and enrollment into the Nora McDonough Nurse Residency Program and,

2. ED unit-based orientation: didactic classes and skills training (low- and high-fidelity simulation) conducted by the experienced ED Education team (curriculum developed from the Emergency Nurse's Association core competency curriculum), ED-specific courses (ACLS/ BLS certification, De-escalation training, Trauma Nursing Core Curriculum) and precepted hours with an experienced ED nurse preceptor. The ED unit-based orientation is done in 2 phases to ensure that the fundamentals of your nursing practice are developed and supported safely before you are progressed into the critical care components of training.

For staff nurses who have less than 2 years of emergency acute care experience (other than new graduates), a plan will be designed based on an assessment of the nurse's prior experience, critical thinking, and technical and interpersonal skills.

Incumbents can expect up to a full year of combined orientation and training in preparation to care for emergency acute patients.

• BLS, ACLS and TNCC education and certification will be provided during orientation for candidate who do not hold the certifications

Benefits Offered:

Brigham and Women's Hospital offers a comprehensive Flexible Benefit Program, including pre-tax deductions designed to truly benefit our employees! We offer competitive Compensation including overtime, shift and weekend differentials, education differential (BSN, MSN, DNP), preceptor differential, Mother's Day differential, generous paid time-off . Our Benefits offerings also include Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance, Short-term Disability, Flexible Spending Accounts, Life Insurance, Retiree Medical Savings Account, Tuition Reimbursement, Back-up Child Care, Wellness Programs, Employee Assistance Program, Professional Growth opportunities and Transportation benefit.

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Requirements:

• Education: Graduate of an approved school of nursing with current registration in Massachusetts. For newly licensed nurses, a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing is required.

• Experience: Emergency Department RN experience preferred

• BLS/ACLS/TNCC preferred

• Other: Membership in professional organizations is recommended and certification in specialty area is encouraged.