Registered Nurse - Maternal Child Services - Per diem Nights

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. Our Maternal Child Services team is responsible for the 36 bed Labor and Delivery, Mother/Baby, and High Risk Antepartum areas, 7 bed triage, and 2 Operating Rooms. We are also designated a Baby Friendly Institution. We invite you to listen to a message from our CNO who shares what it's like to be part of Team HMH at Jersey Shore University Medical Center.

Responsibilities

• Delivery of nursing practices according to the most up-to-date evidence-based research, nursing policies, and standards of care, to provide and ensure safe and excellent delivery of individualized patient care.
• Ongoing communication with patients, nursing colleagues and other members of the health care team regarding patient’s status, rendered care and treatment plans.
• Medication administration utilizing the newest advancements in bar-scanning and documentation technologies designed to ensure the safest delivery of medications to our patients.
• Ongoing Point-of-Care electronic documentation of each individual patient’s assessments, plan-of-care, interventions and evaluation of rendered care.
• Patient and family centered education aimed at optimizing health, wellness and disease management.
• Multi-disciplinary discharging of patients to ensure safe transitioning and continuum of care.
• Care of Labor and Delivery patients.
• Mother/Baby couplet care.
• High Risk Antepartum care.
• Circulating in the Operating Room.
• Newborn Nursery Care.

Requirements

• Current and valid New Jersey Nursing license.
• BLS/CPR certification by American Heart Association required within 60 days of hire.
• Minimum of 1 year maternal child services experience in a hospital setting including labor and delivery, postpartum, antepartum, and well baby nursery.
• ACLS preferred; must obtain within 6 months if not already certified.
• NRP preferred; must obtain within 6 months if not already certified.
• Inpatient Obstetrics and/or External Fetal Monitoring Certification is a plus.
• BSN in progress and/or willing to acquire within three (3) years of hire.

Skills

• Ability to learn quickly and