Registered Nurse - Maternity OR - F/T Days

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.

About the role

Our Maternal Child Services team is responsible for the 36-bed Labor and Delivery, Mother/Baby, and High-Risk Antepartum areas, a 7-bed triage, and 2 Operating Rooms. We are also designated a Baby-Friendly Institution.

The Registered Nurse in Maternal Child Services is responsible for the care of:

• Labor and Delivery patients
• Mother/Baby couplet care
• High-Risk Antepartum care
• Circulating in the Operating Room
• Newborn Nursery Care

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 patients' 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.

Qualifications

• Current and valid New Jersey Registered Nurse license is required.
• BLS/CPR certification by American Heart Association is required within 60 days of hire.
• 2 years of dedicated circulating experience preferred.
• 2 years of Labor and Delivery experience preferred.
• ACLS preferred, must obtain within 6 months.
• NRP preferred, must obtain within 6 months.
• 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.

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.

Pay

Minimum rate of $45.14 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. The base compensation determined at the time of the offer may differ based on non-discriminatory factors including labor market data, experience, education, certifications, skills, geographic location, internal equity, budget, and grant funding.

Certain positions may be eligible for performance-based incentives, bonuses, or commissions not reflected in the starting rate, as well as shift differentials for work performed on evening, night, or weekend shifts.

Benefits

In addition to our compensation for full-time and part-time (20+ hours/week) job positions, HMH offers a comprehensive benefits package, including:

• Health, dental, and vision benefits
• Paid leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• Retirement benefits