Job Description

Hours

4-day work week; no weekends or major holidays!

Join the dedicated team at Concord Hospital Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine as a Registered Nurse, where you'll play a key role in helping patients breathe easier, sleep better, and live more comfortably. In this dynamic specialty setting, you’ll provide comprehensive care—including assessment, treatment, planning, and evaluation—while mentoring fellow nurses and supporting patients with respiratory and critical care needs. Reporting to the Practice Manager and working under the direction of practice providers, you’ll apply your knowledge across the lifespan to deliver age-appropriate care, build meaningful relationships with patients and families, and collaborate with a skilled healthcare team to improve outcomes and quality of life for those facing complex pulmonary conditions.

Education

Minimum requirements: Associate Degree or Diploma in Nursing from an accredited School of Nursing; BSN preferred.

Certification, Registration & Licensure

Licensure required: New Hampshire Board of Nursing license

Certification required: Current American Heart Association Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers certification or Red Cross CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers and Health Care Providers.

Other professional certification as needed specific to the expectations of the position.

Experience

Minimum of two years’ prior clinical nursing experience required; medical practice/office experience preferred. Demonstrated ability to effectively and positively interact with a multi-disciplinary team, patients and others.

Responsibilities

• Establishes priorities in organizing daily activities and maintains efficient patient flow.

• Triages patient phone calls following established guidelines and prescribed format for identifying patient's

  health problems or concerns, and providing quality patient care.

• Administers prescribed medications.

• Provides expert, comprehensive education to patients, families, caregivers, groups, and communities in

  response to identified patient needs.

• Documents health information, interventions, and outcomes into the patient electronic medical record.

• Delegates patient care activities using the five rights: right task, person, direction, circumstance, and

  supervision (ensuring the task has been completed satisfactorily and documentation is complete) and

  providing feedback to delegate and manager.

• Applies principles of purposeful, organized thinking based on the nursing process to make sound clinical

  judgment and decisions.

• Completes practice specific clinical skill competencies on an annual basis.

Concord Hospital is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is our policy to provide equal opportunity to all employees and applicants and to prohibit any discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status.

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Physical and Work Requirements

The physical demands and characteristics of the work environment described here are representative of those that will be encountered by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The Dictionary of Occupational Titles Material Handling Classification is LIGHT. The employee must regularly lift, carry or push/pull less than 10 pounds, frequently lift, carry or push/pull up to 10 pounds, and occasionally lift, carry or push/pull up to 20 pounds.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to hear and speak. The employee is frequently required to sit and walk. The employee is occasionally required to bend, climb, do repetitive motion, kneel, and perform activities that require fine motor skills, reach, smell, squat, and stand.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include color vision, depth perception, far vision, near vision, and peripheral vision.

The employee is occasionally exposed to airborne pathogens, blood borne pathogens, and bodily fluids.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.