MelroseWakefield Healthcare is a coordinated system of hospitals, physician practices and community-based services providing care for communities throughout north suburban Boston. We are distinguished by the range of clinical care and services we provide locally for the continuum of care in clinical collaboration with Tufts Medical Center, as well as an affiliation with the Lawrence Memorial. Our focus is simple: a better approach to providing health care, we bring together top-quality primary, emergency and specialty care, locally. Everything you and your family need, right in your neighborhood to be your best healthy.

**Up to 10,000 Sign-on Bonus**

Melrose Wakefield Healthcare is hiring a skilled Registered Nurse (RN) to join our passionate team of caregivers in north suburban Boston. Our DAISY award winning team offers a shared-governance model, a professional RN development program, tuition reimbursement and much more. Our ICU is an organized system for the provision of care to critically ill patients that provides intensive and specialized medical and nursing care, an enhanced capacity for monitoring, and multiple modalities of physiologic organ support to sustain life during a period of life-threatening organ system insufficiency.

Responsibilities:

Evaluating and monitoring of patient’s progress and identification of any sudden or subtle changes in the patient’s medical condition

• Administering medications intravenously by injection or via gastric tubes
• Delivering regular updates of patient’s progress to doctors, patients, and their families
• Performing approved diagnostic or therapeutic procedures according to the patient’s clinical status
• Responding to health emergencies when called upon and alert appropriate doctors
• Evaluating patient’s laboratory data and vital signs to determine emergency intervention needs
• Caring for patient needs throughout their recovery journey in ICU
• Advocating for patients’ and families’ needs
• Providing emotional support to patients and their families
• Setting up and monitoring medical equipment and devices like medical ventilators, oxygen delivery devices, transducers, and pressure lines.
• Assessing patients pain level and sedation requirements
• Maintaining patient records

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Baccalaureate degree in nursing preferred.
• Candidates without bachelor’s degree in nursing will be considered but must be enrolled in Baccalaureate program within 1 year of hire.
• Valid Massachusetts RN license.
• CPR, IV and ACLS certification.

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. MelroseWakefield Healthcare 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 MelroseWakefield, all employees and new hires must have received their complete dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, unless they have been granted an exemption.