What are the responsibilities and job description for the Nursing - Infection Control RN position at Yale New Haven Health?
Job Summary
The Registered Nurse (RN) at Yale New Haven Health plays a vital role in patient-centered care by adhering to professional standards and ethical guidelines. Responsibilities include assessment, diagnosis, care planning, implementation, and evaluation of patient care while ensuring effective communication and collaboration within the healthcare team.
The RN supports a culture of accountability, compassion, and integrity while promoting health and a safe environment for patients and families.
Responsibilities
- Establishes and maintains a therapeutic relationship with the patient and family
- Includes communicating and working collaboratively with the patient, family and health care team members
- Respects the patient's values, preferences, expressed needs and knowledge of the healthcare situation in holistic data collection, in formulating health care outcomes and in the evaluation process
Standards of Practice
The Standards of Practice describe a competent level of nursing care as demonstrated by utilizing the nursing process components of assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, implementation and evaluation.
Nursing Process Components
- Assessment: The registered nurse collects pertinent data and information relative to the healthcare consumer's health or situation
- Diagnosis: The RN analyzes the assessment data to determine the actual and potential diagnoses or the issues
- Outcomes Identification: The RN identifies expected outcomes for a plan individualized to the healthcare consumer or the situation
- Planning: The RN develops and modifies a plan of care that prescribes strategies and alternatives to attain expected outcomes
- Implementation: The RN implements the identified plan
- Coordination of Care: The RN coordinates care delivery and transitions in care
- Health Teaching and Health Promotion: The RN employs strategies to promote health and a safe environment
Standards of Professional Performance
The ANA Standards of Professional Performance (2015) describe a competent level of behavior in the professional role, including activities related to: ethics, culturally congruent practice, communication, collaboration, leadership, education, evidence-based practice and research, quality of practice professional practice evaluation, resource utilization and environmental health.
Professional Practice Evaluation Criteria
- Ethics: The RN practices in a manner that is congruent with cultural diversity and inclusion principles
- Culturally Congruent Practice: The RN communicates effectively in all areas of practice
- Communication: The RN collaborates with healthcare consumer and other key stakeholders in the conduct of nursing practice
- Collaboration: The RN seeks knowledge and competence that reflects current nursing practice and promotes futuristic thinking
- Education: The RN integrates evidence and research findings into practice
- Evidence-Based Practice and Research: The RN contributes to quality nursing practice
- Quality of Practice: The RN evaluates owns' and others' nursing practice
- Resource Utilization: The RN utilizes appropriate resources to plan provide and sustain evidence-based nursing services that are safe, effective and fiscally responsible
- Environmental Health: The RN practices in an environmentally safe and healthy manner
Requirements
Graduation from an accredited school of nursing required. May be exposed to infectious diseases. Moderate stress and risk of injury from patient care.
1 year acute care or ambulatory RN experience required
2 years oncology and/or ambulatory RN experience preferred
