Registered Nurse - Emergency Department - P/T with Benefits Days

About the role

Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives — and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community. Together, we keep getting better - advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change. The Registered Nurse functions as a caregiver for a specific patient population in order to achieve desired outcomes. This position focuses on expanding knowledge and skills, provides effective direct care as part of the interdisciplinary team to a variety of complex patients. This position directs and oversees the care provided by other caregivers through delegation, validation, evaluation, and coordination. This position effectively coordinates patient care/unit activities among nursing peers, physicians and support services.

Responsibilities

• Deliver nursing practices according to the most up-to-date evidence-based research, nursing policies, and standards of care to provide safe and excellent individualized patient care.
• Assessment: Collect comprehensive data pertinent to the patient's health or situation; perform age and disease-specific assessment independently in a systematic manner focusing on physiologic, psychological and cognitive status; recognize clinical and diagnostic status changes; identify variables in patient/family education needs based on age, disease, and culturally specific learning differences.
• Plan: Develop a plan of care that prescribes strategies and interventions to attain expected outcomes; formulate age and disease-specific patient/family-centered goals/outcomes based on assessment data; develop and coordinate a patient/family-focused, prioritized plan of care encompassing the continuum of care.
• Implementation: Communicate, coordinate, and implement the plan of care; provide ongoing communication with patient/family, nursing colleagues, and other members of the health care team regarding patient's status, rendered care and treatment plans; implement age and disease-specific care in an organized and timely manner; provide or coordinate patient/family education as needed and ensure understanding; perform according to established protocols in clinical situations, including communicating with appropriate persons and documenting events; provide nursing care and treatments that reflect patients' needs, advocate appropriately and demonstrate evidence-based nursing practice and compliance with standards; perform continuous point-of-care electronic documentation of each individual patient's assessments, plan-of-care, interventions and evaluation of rendered care; administer medication utilizing newest advancements in bar-scanning and documentation technologies designed to ensure the safest delivery of medications; multi-disciplinary discharge of patients to ensure safe transitioning and continuum of care.
• Evaluation: Evaluate progress toward attainment of outcomes; utilize critical thinking skills based on nursing knowledge to achieve desired patient outcomes; initiate interventions related to patient's change in condition and unexpected response to care.
• Additional Responsibilities: Identify ethical issues in the practice setting and bring them to the attention of other team members; recognize and respond to opportunities to enhance patient satisfaction; acquire and maintain competencies, certifications and continuing education to meet facility accreditation or individual licensing requirements; adhere to American Nurses Association Code for Nurses with Interpretive Statements; lift a minimum of 35 lbs., push and pull a minimum of 10 lbs., and stand a minimum of 6 hours a day; adhere to HMH's Organizational and Managerial competencies and standards of behavior; perform other duties and/or projects as assigned.

Qualifications

• Current and valid New Jersey Nursing license required.
• Active American Heart Association (AHA) BLS/CPR certification required.
• BSN preferred and/or willing to acquire within three (3) years of hire.
• ACLS preferred.
• PALS preferred.
• Six (6) or more months of relevant nursing experience OR active participant with Hackensack Meridian Health's Nurse Residency Program.
• 1 year or more of acute care nursing experience strongly preferred.
• Emergency department experience preferred.
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing patient needs; strong sense of accountability for improving the lives of patients and their caregivers; exceptional focus on teamwork; dedication to ongoing education; ability and passion to deliver the highest quality of care based on a strong sense of patient focus.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, vision, paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and retirement benefits.

Pay

Starting at $43.77 hourly. The posted rate of pay is a reasonable good faith estimate of the minimum base pay for this role at the time of posting in accordance with the New Jersey Pay Transparency Act and does not reflect the full value of our market-competitive total rewards package.