Per Diem Registered Nurse, Waltham inpatient unit

Job description

Status Part-Time Standard Hours per Week: 1 Job Posting Category: Nursing: Job Posting Description: Department Summary: The Waltham Pediatric Inpatient Unit is an 11 bed Surgical Unit, with a typical length of stay of 24 to 72 hours. Key responsibilities: - Caring for post-operative patients. Age range infants to young adults. Specialties include: Orthopedics/Sports Medicine, ORL, Urology, Plastics, Ophthalmology. - Assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating for a complex patient population. - Attending to the full range of human experiences and responses to health and illness, without restriction, to a problem-focus orientation; integrating objective data with knowledge gained from an understanding of the patients or group’s subjective experiences. - Applying scientific knowledge to the process of diagnosis and treatment. - Providing a caring relationship that facilitates health and healing. - Collaborating with the clinical coordinator, assisting in the coordination of patient care services for area(s) of responsibility. - Working per diem (4 shifts in 6 weeks) with night/weekend rotation. Education: Experience: License/Certification: Please note: During a public health eme...