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.

• A registered nurse holds ultimate responsibility for the provision of high-quality and safe nursing care to their patients and their families in the maternal newborn service.
• These responsibilities include the provision of nursing assessment, care, and evaluation of postpartum women and their newborns.
• The maternal newborn nurse adheres to the principles and practices of family-centered developmental care.
• The nurse utilizes a problem-focused orientation; integrates objective data with knowledge gained from an understanding of the patient’s or group’s subjective experiences; applies scientific knowledge to the process of diagnosis and treatment; and provides a caring relationship that facilitates health and healing.
• The Registered Nurse adheres to the Board of Registration in Nursing rules and regulations, ANA scope and standards of nursing, the ANA code of ethics for nursing, MelroseWakefield Healthcare policies and procedures, and other regulatory requirements.
• The maternal newborn nurse participates in interprofessional collaborative practice and high-performance teamwork.

EDUCATION:

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Baccalaureate degree in nursing strongly preferred.
• Candidates who have an associate’s degree in nursing may be considered but must be enrolled in a Baccalaureate program within 1 year of hire. C
• urrent employees (in position prior to January 1, 2011) who do not hold an associate’s degree in nursing will be grandfathered.
• Registration and current RN licensure in the state of MA in good standing required.
• BLS certification is preferred, but not required.

EXPERIENCE:

• In addition to a BSN, additional undergraduate and graduate degrees in the health sciences with experience working with at-risk populations is preferred.

SKILLS/ABILITIES:

• Good interpersonal and organizational skills. Ability to work with detailed, confidential material, computer experience required.