Registered Nurse- Emergency Room- OBMC- F/T Evenings

About the role

The Registered Nurse at Hackensack Meridian Health functions as a caregiver for a specific patient population, providing and ensuring safe and excellent delivery of individualized patient care. This role involves the delivery of nursing practices according to the most up-to-date evidence-based research, nursing policies, and standards of care.

Responsibilities

• Absolutely assesses and collects comprehensive data pertinent to the patient's health or the situation, focusing on physiologic, psychological, and cognitive status.
• Develops a plan of care that prescribes strategies and interventions to attain expected outcomes, based on assessment data.
• Communicates, coordinates, and implements the plan of care, providing ongoing communication with patient/family, nursing colleagues, and other members of the health care team regarding patient's status, rendered care, and treatment plans.
• Performs medication administration using the newest advancements in bar-scanning and documentation technologies designed to ensure the safest delivery of medications to our patients.
• Multi-disciplinary discharges patients to ensure safe transitioning and continuum of care.
• Evaluates progress toward attainment of outcomes, utilizing critical thinking skills based on nursing knowledge to achieve desired patient outcomes.
• Identifies ethical issues in the practice setting and brings them to the attention of other team members.
• Recognizes and responds to opportunities to enhance patient satisfaction.

Qualifications

• A minimum of an associate in Nursing or diploma of Nursing degree.
• BSN in progress and/or willing to acquire within three (3) years of hire.
• Six (6) or more months of relevant nursing experience OR active participant with Hackensack Meridian Health's Nurse Residency Program.
• The ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing patient needs, a strong sense of accountability for improving the lives of our patients and their caregivers, an exceptional focus on teamwork, dedication to ongoing education, and the ability and passion to deliver the highest quality of care based on a strong sense of patient focus are all required.

Skills and Abilities

• The ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing patient needs, a strong sense of accountability for improving the lives of our patients and their caregivers, an exceptional focus on teamwork, dedication to ongoing education, and the ability and passion to deliver the highest quality of care based on a strong sense of patient focus are all required.

Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Preferred

• National Certification in area of specialty preferred when eligible.

Licenses and Certifications Required

• A current and valid Registered Nurse license to work at the assigned HMH location by date of hire.
• BLS/CPR certification by American Heart Association is required within 60 days of hire.

Benefits

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.