Registered Nurse Resident

When you join the growing BILH team, you’re not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

$5,000 sign-on bonus available for eligible hires. Bonus amounts for positions under 40 hours per week will be prorated. Per diem roles are not eligible.

Job Description:

Reporting to the Nurse Manager/Director of the unit, assimilates into professional role. Provides professional nursing care within assigned unit. Coordinates care planning with other disciplines.

Major Responsibilities:

• Practice Standards
  Adheres to hospital policies, ANA standards of practice, and nursing code of ethics. Ensures safe, timely, and accurate medication and IV administration and transcription. Successfully uses information technology. Documentation is accurate, timely, concise, legible, and adheres to departmental policy. Integrates policies and/or national practice guidelines into patient care planning to achieve desired patient care outcomes.
• Assessment
  Performs a physical assessment and elicits comprehensive patient history on admission appropriate to the setting and patient's condition utilizing accepted practice and documentation standards. Performs systematic, ongoing assessments as patient condition and unit standards warrant. Uses appropriate evidence-based assessment techniques and instruments in collecting pertinent data.
• Prioritization/Organization
  Prioritizes established patient care problems and needs. Makes clinical decisions independently, collaboratively, manages one's own assignment. Manages own assignment while balancing efficiency and cost. Recognizes own limitations and seeks collaboration/assistance when needed. Modifies plans and reprioritizes work quickly to handle the unexpected. Manages multiple demands in prioritizing the patient care needs of an entire unit/dept. Adapts routine protocols and resources to demonstrate effective clinical decision-making in situations that are less than predictable.
• Planning/Implementation
  Communicates effectively during any patient handoff. Identifies and anticipates patient care needs and initiates the plan of care based upon actual or potential health risks or problems to attain mutually agreed upon outcomes. Identifies patient priorities and discharge planning needs by utilizing assessment, 'best practice' standards, multidisciplinary team, and patient input.
• Evaluation
  Evaluates and modifies the effectiveness of the plan of care based on mutually agreed upon outcomes and patient feedback.
• Patient/Family Education
  Identifies patient education needs and collaborates with other health care professionals to provide appropriate learning opportunities. Documents patient education, interventions, and patient's response in a clear and concise manner. Develops formal patient education materials independently. Develops/participates in community education programs or screenings.
• Professional Growth and Development
  Seeks formal education to maintain and advance clinical and professional skills and knowledge. Seeks assignments that challenge and stretch their ability. Anticipates the need for and acquires new skills/training. Able to work in more than one specialty area/unit/environment. Is an active member of a professional organization and shares organizational information with their home department.