Beth Israel Lahey Health·Burlington, Vermont
Provide high-quality nursing care to patients in the Neurosciences CCU/ICU, including assessment, planning, and implementation of care plans. Coordinate care across the continuum while adhering to professional standards, ethics, and regulatory requirements.
When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.
Lahey Clinic is offering an exciting opportunity for an Experienced Critical Care Nurse to join our new Neurosciences Critical Care Unit (NCCU) team. We are looking for a dynamic Registered Nurse who is seeking a role in which they are at the forefront of delivering state of the art Neurocritical Care. As a Registered Nurse in the NCCU, you will work collaboratively with our interdisciplinary team to deliver clinical excellence in patient-centered care, while being empowered through evidence-based practice, continuing education, collaboration, and shared governance to deliver nursing care at the highest level with empathy and kindness in the forefront.
Our Neurosciences Critical Care Unit (NCCU) is the newest unit at Lahey Clinic and is comprised of 9 Intensive Care and 9 Progressive Care beds. Lahey Clinic holds a Comprehensive Stroke Center designation and is proudly growing Neurosciences Critical Care within the organization. The NCCU is an acute intensive care unit specializing in the care of acutely ill patients with life threatening neurologic disease or life threatening neurological manifestation of a system disease. Using the latest technologies, nursing staff deliver care to patients requiring ventilatory support, hemodynamic monitoring, ICP monitoring, targeted temperature management, osmotic therapy, continuous renal replacement therapy, in addition to providing support and comfort to the families of these patients.
Essential duties & responsibilities: Including but not limited to:
The professional relationship is based upon Lahey Clinic’s guiding principles and positive effective communication. This relationship extends beyond formal assessment to integrate the particular patient’s response and his/her religious/spiritual, ethnic and cultural beliefs into the plan of care.
The Registered Nurse supports the development of others and creates a practice climate of responsiveness and learning based on Benner’s Novice to Expert skills acquisition model. This supports the retention and recruitment of clinically competent nurses. The ability to lead and influence the reasoning of colleagues in the patient’s best interest depends on skillful comportment, authoritative clinical knowledge and wisdom, the conviction to act as an ethical agent despite adverse consequences, and the ability to listen and enhance others’ strengths.
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Demonstrates professional behavior by adhering to unit policies and procedures, practice guidelines specific to the setting and the ANA Code of Ethics.
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Demonstrates skills as a responsive team member.
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Demonstrates role of nurse as teacher.
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Demonstrate ability to fulfill role in Regulatory compliance and readiness.
The Registered Nurse achieves clinical scholarship through experiences with patients, through collaboration with colleagues and leadership and through formal education. Learning is transformed into knowledge through self-reflection and analysis.
A. Upholds standards of quality nursing care. B. Demonstrates a commitment to life long learning. C. Demonstrates evidenced based practice (EBP) in nursing.
1. At least one full year of experience working as a Registered Nurse, preferably in an acute or sub-acute setting
2. Prior Neurosciences or Critical Care experience, preferred
3. Telemetry experience preferred
1. Graduate of a state approved and/or accredited School of Nursing
2. BSN preferred
1. Current license to practice professional nursing from the Massachusetts Board of Registration
2. Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from the American Heart Association required prior to start date
3. Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certification from the American Heart Association, preferred
1. Demonstrates the necessary clinical skills and technical knowledge to provide care for patients according to Nursing Policy and Procedures.
2. Demonstrates the necessary clinical skills and knowledge to provide care for patients according to the unit-specific competencies.
3. Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills.
4. Demonstrate critical thinking, service excellence and good interpersonal communication skills, ability to read/comprehend written instructions, ability to follow verbal instructions, PC skills
5. Lifting 75 lbs. minimum with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 25 lbs.
$37.00 - $95.37
The pay range listed for this position is the base hourly wage range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law. Compensation may exceed the base hourly rate depending on shift differentials, call pay, premium pay, overtime pay, and other additional pay practices, as applicable to the position and in accordance with the law.
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.
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Market context
In Vermont, nursing support roles for licensed nursing assistants are often shaped by staffing needs in hospitals, long-term care, and community settings, so employers look closely for current state licensure and dependable teamwork. These roles can be competitive because candidates must meet clear credential requirements and communicate well in fast-paced care environments. Review the AI-summarized job requirements and benefits here to save research time, then confirm your Vermont LNA license and prepare an example of collaborative patient care.
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