New Graduate; Registered Nurse- Grimes Center

Job Title

New Graduate RN Opportunities at Grimes Center

Job Description

The Grimes Center, our skilled nursing facility with Yale New Haven Health, currently has amazing opportunities available for new graduate RN's with competitive pay rates! Please apply to this job posting if you are interested in either Full-time, Part-time, or Per diem jobs for any shift (Day/Evening/Night). To be part of our organization, every employee should understand and share in the YNHHS Vision, support our Mission, and live our Values. These values - integrity, patient-centered, respect, accountability, and compassion - must guide what we do, as individuals and professionals, every day.

Responsibilities

A member of the nursing staff who is highly involved in the delivery of quality nursing care. He/She will work in conjunction with the Charge Nurse to meet the resident's needs and/or resolve problems. Directs and supervises the nursing care and all related activities on the unit, assigned according to the policies and procedures of Grimes Center and the State and Federal agents. EEO/AA/Disability/Veteran

• Follows established standards of nursing practices and implements facility policies and procedures.
• Obtains report from nurse he/she is relieving and implements appropriate follow-up action as necessary.
• Conducts resident rounds, directs care for C.N.A.s and LPNs, and initiates corrective action and reporting issues/actions taken to nursing supervisor.
• Supervises and evaluates all direct resident care and initiates changes or corrective action as necessary.
• Provides clinical supervision of certified nursing assistants providing direct resident care and gives direction to licensed practical nurses.
• Knowledgeably and competently performs basic nursing skills including administration of medications, treatments, and complete admission, transfer, and discharge of residents.
• Performs and documents comprehensive assessment of each resident. Develops care plan based on these assessments.
• Counsels nursing assistants, licensed practical nurses and recommends disciplinary action, when necessary, to the Shift Supervisor.
• Check emergency equipment and sign off on the emergency cart checklist sheet. Ability to order and receive medication delivery from pharmacy and check all drugs received.
• Ability to consistently work cooperatively with residents, nursing staff, physicians, families, consultant personnel, community agencies and ancillary service providers.
• Chaperone: will be responsible to chaperone patients as necessary to appointments and be in the room with them for certain procedures, examinations and treatments.

Qualifications

EDUCATION: Baccalaureate degree in Nursing or Science preferred.

EXPERIENCE: At least one year of work experience in rehabilitative, psychiatric or geriatric nursing preferred.

LICENSURE: A Registered Nurse licensed in the State of Connecticut.

SPECIAL SKILLS: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Demonstrates the ability to maintain standards of care rendered at Grimes Center accordance with the State of Connecticut Public Health Code, the governing body of the facility and the State and Federal agencies.