• Employment Type: Full Time
• Shift: Rotating
• Location: Boston, MA

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

CLINICAL PRACTICE

• Demonstrates clinical expertise. Employs evidence-based practice in decision-making and patient care.
• Utilizes the hospital process for the delivery and management of patients care across the continuum of care appropriate to the developmental age of the patient population.
• Collaborates with primary providers and other members of the health care team related to patient plan of care.
• Develops and monitors systems that promote excellence in patient care.
• Utilizes the quality assurance and performance improvement process to optimize patients care
• Uses clinical skills to provide ongoing assessment and evaluation of patient care.
• Coordinates and directs patient care to ensure patients needs are met and hospital policy is followed.
• Maintains open communication with managers whose departments provide support services to the clinical area in order to ensure the appropriate level of service at all times.
• Evaluates and communicates to manager changing needs of the unit, including staffing requirements.
• Demonstrates the ability to be flexible, organized and function well under stressful situations.
• Collaborates with other members of the unit management team in developing practice guidelines, competencies and unit specific procedures.

STAFF DEVELOPMENT

• Communicates and consistently supports the philosophy and goals of the unit, department and hospital.
• Supports the orientation and preceptor programs.
• Assists in the development and implementation plan of performance improvement activities.
• Assists in developing mechanisms for data collection related to quality indicators.
• Promotes staff participation in unit and hospital committees/task forces.
• Delegates appropriately to others in accordance with job description and competency level.
• Supports the ongoing development of staff through coaching, mentoring and role modeling.
• Collaborates with other members of leadership team in providing appropriate educational opportunities for licensed and unlicensed personnel.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Participates in and provides leadership to departmental and hospital committees as requested.
• Assists in the development of practice initiatives through unit-based group activities.
• Enhances own professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, keeping current with literature, inservice meetings, and workshops.

JOB KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• Demonstrates leadership skills appropriate to positions responsibilities.
• Excels at demonstrating the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care to patients in the relevant area of nursing practice.

EDUCATION

• NP
• ACLS certificate

EXPERIENCE

• Must have 3 years of demonstrated clinical competence in relevant area of nursing practice in critical care.

LICENSE

• (APN)
• Current Massachusetts Registered Nurse license to practice in expanded role.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORKING CONDITIONS

• Prolonged, extensive, or considerable standing / walking
• Lifts, positions, pushes and / or transfers patients
• Considerable reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, crouching
• Regularly exposed to the risk of blood borne diseases
• Contact with patients under wide variety of circumstances
• Subject to varying and unpredictable situations
• Handles emergency and crisis situations
• Day / rotator or permanent off shift position schedule

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES STATEMENT:

Must be able to perform all essential functions of this position with reasonable accommodation if disabled.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed, as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified. Tufts Medical Center reserves the right to modify position duties at any time, to reflect process improvements and business necessity.

COVID-19 POLICY:

Please note that effective October 1, 2021, as a condition of employment at Tufts Medical Center, all employees and new hires must have received their complete dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, unless they have been granted an exemption.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES STATEMENT:

Must be able to perform all essential functions of this position with reasonable accommodation if disabled.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed, as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified. Tufts Medical Center reserves the right to modify position duties at any time, to reflect process improvements and business necessity.

COVID-19 POLICY:

Please note that effective October 1, 2021, as a condition of employment at Tufts Medical Center, all employees and new hires must have received their complete dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, unless they have been granted an exemption.