REGISTERED NURSE (RN) - ORTHOPEDICS
Company: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health
Location: Manchester
Posted on: October 15, 2024
Job Description:
Overview
The Clinical Nurse is an engaged and credentialed member of the
Professional Nursing Organization and is responsible for autonomous
practice directed by the professional tenets of practitioner,
leader/decision maker, scientist and transferor. The Clinical Nurse
is responsible for utilizing the nursing process to provide
evidence-based care and to continuously monitor and evaluate
practice to ensure safe passage of patients that is in the best
interest of populations served.
These are just a few highlights of being a nurse at Dartmouth
Hitchcock Medical Center and Clinics in New Hampshire.
- We have loan repayment up to $20,000.
- We offer generous tuition reimbursement.
- We have a very popular earned time plan.
- We have extensive CEU/Training programs.
- Our 8,000 ft Patient Safety and Training Simulation Center is
state-of-the-art.
- Our nurses serve as central figures in the success of our
system through our shared governance nursing model.
- We offer a rigorous, research-focused environment.
- Dartmouth Hitchcock's Nursing Continuing Education Council is
accredited as a provider of continuing nursing. education by the
American Nurses Credentialing Center. Read more about Dartmouth
Health and why YOU should work here.
The Dartmouth Health system stretches over New Hampshire and
Vermont and offers the quintessential New England experience. With
no income or sales tax, this beautiful area combines history,
industry, and business and has been ranked consistently as one of
the best places in the US to live and work. Anchored by the
academic Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, the
system includes the NCI-designated Dartmouth Cancer Center,
Dartmouth Health Children's; 4 member hospitals, and 30 Dartmouth
Hitchcock ambulatory clinics across the region. With destinations
like Boston, New York, the seacoast, and ski country within driving
distance, the opportunities - both career and personal - truly make
New Hampshire the ideal place to work and play.
Applicants are encouraged to visit our nursing career site to learn
more and apply:
Please visit: https://dhnursing.org/nursing-careers/
Dartmouth Health is an equal opportunity employer, and all
qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment
without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin,
disability status, veteran status, gender identity or expression,
or any other characteristic protected by law.
Responsibilities
Practitioner
- Utilizes the nursing process to assess, diagnose, identify
outcomes, plan, implement and evaluate an individualized plan of
care.
- Utilizes critical thinking and the nursing process to
anticipate and recognize changes in patient status, taking action
to modify the plan of care or to elevate to the care team as
necessary.
- Practices in accordance with the ANA Code of Ethics to advocate
for patients, uphold their autonomy in decision-making, ensure
informed consent and assist patients in families in expressing
self-determination.
- Actively seeks feedback and acts to improve performance.
- Engages in the governance of practice. Leader/Decision
Maker
- Manages interpersonal relationships for self and with
others.
- Mentors colleagues for the advancement of nursing practice and
the profession.
- Assumes authority and accountability for the nursing care of
patients while appropriately delegating elements of care to others
members of the care delivery team in accordance with laws,
regulations and policies and procedures.
- Prioritizes and organizes time to optimize patient outcomes.
Scientist
- Actively seeks out the most current evidence and standards and
applies and translates to daily practice.
- Role models a culture of inquiry, developing new knowledge by
contributing to research, quality improvement, and evidence-based
practice at the local level. Transferor
- Communicates effectively in a variety of formats in all areas
of practice.
- Actively partners with others to effect change that produces
positive outcomes through the exchange of knowledge.
- Precepts the student nurse, nurse extern, nurse resident,
experienced clinical nurse and other members of the healthcare
team.
- Performs other duties as required or assigned.
Qualifications
- Graduate from an accredited Nursing Program required.
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing (BSN) with 1 year of
experience.
- Associate Degree (ADN) prepared nurses with 2 years'
experience. Required Licensure/Certifications
- Licensed Registered Nurse with NH eligibility
- Basic Life Support (BLS) Certificate required upon hire and as
applicable, higher level per unit certification requirements as
stated on the grid attached to the AHA and Life Support Policy
- ACLS Certificate required upon hire in Endoscopy, Tele-ICU, Day
Surgery Center at CGP (Manchester), Life Safety and
Cardiology-Echocardiography
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