Wound Center Registered Nurse

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

Job Description:

Join Anna Jaques Hospital (AJH), a distinguished not-for-profit community hospital nestled in the picturesque coastal community of Newburyport, Massachusetts. Since 1884, AJH has been a cornerstone of healthcare excellence in the Merrimack Valley, North Shore, and Southern New Hampshire regions, renowned for our commitment to high-quality care and exceptional patient satisfaction. Located just 35 miles northeast of Boston, AJH offers the perfect blend of a supportive community hospital environment and the vast opportunities that come with being part of Beth Israel Lahey Health, one of the largest healthcare systems in the region. As a member of our team, you'll be part of a network of over 39,000 caregivers and staff dedicated to providing extraordinary care to more than 1.7 million people from 150+ cities and towns across Eastern Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire. Discover a rewarding career at AJH, where you can make a meaningful impact within a close-knit community while advancing your professional growth within a thriving healthcare system.

Are you ready to become a part of our dynamic team where you can grow and advance, all while making a difference in patient’s lives?

Wound Center Registered Nurse

Shift: Monday-Friday, 8am-4:30pm, no weekends or observed holidays

Hours: Per Diem

Role and responsibilities:

Professional Development

• Actively participates in departmental staff meetings and quality improvement initiatives.
• Maintains current licensure and certifications as per job description, and keeps current on assigned education and training tasks.

Critical Thinking

• Utilizes critical thinking skills and the teaching of evidence based practice.
• Follows Hand-Off Communication policy as appropriate.

Nursing Practice

• Practices within the scope and service outlined in the Nurse Practice Act.
• Utilizes Standard Universal Precautions.

Patient Advocacy

• Advocates for patients and families to ensure positive patient care outcomes.

Documentation

• Documents in a timely and accurate manner.
• Documents all changes as well as relevant information regarding patient’s response to intervention, therapeutic regimens, and patient progress as it relates to plan of care and patient’s response to teaching.

Patient Care

• Ensures that patient’s pain is well controlled.
• Responds to patient needs in a timely manner, including answering call lights.

Patient Communication

• Communicates effectively with patients, families peers and other members of the healthcare team.
• Includes patient, family, and care-givers in all aspects of care while ensuring that all explanations are understandable.

Assessment

• Completes admission and on-going assessments based on patient needs within appropriate time frame.
• Identifies patient’s individual needs, problems, issues, concerns and considers chronological and developmental levels.

Planning

• Develops an individualized nursing plan of care based on initial and on-going data collection.
• Ensures that the plan establishes realistic and attainable health goals with patient and family including educational and discharge needs.
• Provides resources to assist patients and families with post-discharge needs.

Implementation

• Demonstrates clinical competency and follows standards of care, policies and procedures.
• Implements patient education and discharge teaching appropriately utilizing “teach back” process.
• Interprets properly and implements physician’s orders.

Clinical Specialty

• Maintains competency in Wound Center's specific testing and procedures.
• Follows departmental policies and procedures.

Minimum Education

• Must be a graduate of an accredited nursing program.
• BSN preferred.

Required Licenses

• Must be currently licensed as a Registered Nurse by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
• Maintains BLS.
• Must have ACLS

Physical Demands

• Provide direct care to patients, including lifting, moving, and assisting.
• Regular standing, bending walking and lifting.

Work Environment

• Registered Nurses are exposed to both biologic and chemical hazards.
• Proper use of personal protective equipment is required.

Benefits working at Anna Jaques Hospital:

• Tuition Reimbursement
• Career Development and Opportunities
• Free On-Site Parking
• Discounts/Savings on various businesses.
• Health and Wellness activities

Apply today and learn more!

Pay Range:

This position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement. 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.  The pay range for this position is established and governed by the terms of the applicable collective bargaining agreement. Employees hired into this position will receive compensation consistent with the terms of the applicable collective bargaining agreement.

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.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled