Registered Nurse - Emergency Department - Per Diem - Day Shift (7a-7p)

About the role

Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines.

Penn Medicine Princeton Health is seeking a Registered Nurse to join our team in the Emergency Department in Plainsboro, NJ.

• ED technicians support care in the ED
• Locked behavioral health unit within the ED
• Excellent working conditions
• Redesign of ED flow promotes a no-wait waiting room
• During times of surge, alternate pathways enable workups to take place streamlining the length of stay
• Wonderful working relationships with the ED Providers
• Medications scanned into the EMR promote safe medication delivery
• IV Medications delivered via IV pump are verified in the EMR
• Communication occurs seamlessly via iPhones

Responsibilities

• Establishing a therapeutic relationship and an individualized plan of care with the patient for a defined period of time (length of stay on that unit) and communicating that plan of care to collaborative partners
• Planning, delivering, coordinating, evaluating, and modifying the patient’s care for that defined period of time and effectively transitioning that plan of care with attention to continuity across shift and settings of care
• Providing a multitude of care including: foley insertions; assistance with chest tube and central line insertions; cardiac arrests; blood transfusions; medication administration; splinting of orthopedic problems; laceration repair; prep for the operating room; STEMI (MI) care; therapeutic hypothermia; intravenous insertion

Requirements