Registered Nurse - Hospital from Home - F/T Evenings

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.

Responsibilities

• Assess patients: collect comprehensive data, perform age- and disease-specific assessments independently, recognize clinical and diagnostic status changes, identify patient/family education needs based on age, disease, and cultural differences.
• Plan care: formulate age- and disease-specific patient/family-centered goals/outcomes based on assessment data, develop and coordinate a patient/family-focused plan of care that is prioritized and encompasses the continuum of care.
• Implement care: provide ongoing communication with patient/family, nursing colleagues, and other health‑team members regarding status, rendered care, and treatment plans; provide 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 assessments, plan‑of‑care, interventions, and evaluation; administer medication using newest bar‑scanning and documentation technologies to ensure safe delivery; coordinate multidisciplinary discharge to ensure safe transition and continuum of care.
• Evaluate outcomes: 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, 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.
• Delegate and oversee care: direct and oversee the care provided by other caregivers through delegation, validation, evaluation, and coordination; effectively coordinate patient care/unit activities among nursing peers, physicians, and support services.
• Maintain competencies: acquire and maintain required competencies, certifications, and continuing education to meet facility accreditation or individual licensing requirements; adhere to American Nurses Association Code for Nurses with Interpretive Statements and HMH's organizational and managerial competencies and standards of behavior.
• Physical requirements: lift a minimum of