Registered Nurse - Venous Access - 36hr Rotating

Join The BILH Team

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you're making a difference in people's lives. 3 x 12hr day/night rotating shifts with weekend and holiday rotation. The Venous Access Team is currently seeking an experienced candidate with a strong interest in further developing their expertise in vascular access. This role utilizes the nursing process as the foundation for practice as a professional registered nurse, providing direct nursing care to patients and families. As a key resource across the medical center, responsibilities include:

• Placement and care of various venous access devices
• Advising on the most appropriate vascular access options
• Managing devices such as temporary lines, PICC lines, tunneled catheters, and indwelling chest ports
• Conducting comprehensive assessments of patients' clinical profiles to recommend optimal vascular access solutions

Job Description:

Essential Responsibilities Including But Not Limited To:

• Provides direct care to patients and makes necessary nursing judgments.
• Coordinates the care of patients and directs assistive personnel in order 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.
• 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
• Problem Solving
• Independence of Action
• Written Communications
• Oral Communications
• Knowledge
• Team Work
• Customer Service

Age Based Competencies:

• Neonatal: Birth to 6 months
• Young adult: 16-30 years
• Middle Age: 30 - 60 years
• Elderly: 60 - over

Social/Environmental Requirements:

• Work requires periods of close attention to work without interruption.
• Work requires constant response to changing circumstances and using new information to adjust approach and to quickly respond to new needs.
• Potential exposure to adverse environmental conditions
• Health Care Status: HCW1: Regular, day-to-day contact; both face-to-face and hands-on (having close contact within three feet for at least five minutes).

Sensory Requirements:

• Close work (paperwork, visual examination)
• Color vision/perception
• Visual monotony
• Visual clarity > 20 feet
• Visual clarity <3 feet
• Hot/Cold
• Sharp/Dull
• Smell
• Conversation
• Monitoring Equipment
• Telephone
• Background Noise

Physical Requirements:

• 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.
• This job requires constant walking, endurance-working up to 3-4 hours without a break, frequent standing, bending neck, bending waist, twisting neck, twisting waist, maintain crouch for > 5 minutes, Repetition crouch (>2 times/minutes), Power Grasping using both hands, Fine Manipulation using both hands, Pushing/Pulling using both hands, Keyboard use, Reaching-above shoulder height, Reaching-below shoulder height, Lifting and carrying items weighing up to 50 lbs, Pull up and/or reposition patient weighing up to 100 pounds without assistance, Pull up and/or reposition patient weighing up to 250 pounds with assistance, Pushing items weighing up to 50 lbs, Push a wheelchair or wheeled bed containing a patient weighing up to 250 pounds, with assistance.

Pay Range: $38.00 - $98.19

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.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled