Registered Nurse - Med/Surg - F/T Days

About the Role

As a Registered Nurse at Hackensack Meridian Health, you will function as a caregiver for a specific patient population to achieve desired outcomes. This role focuses on expanding knowledge and skills, providing effective direct care as part of the interdisciplinary team to a variety of complex patients. You will direct and oversee the care provided by other caregivers through delegation, validation, evaluation, and coordination, while effectively coordinating patient care and unit activities among nursing peers, physicians, and support services.

Responsibilities

A day in the life of a Registered Nurse includes:

• Assessment, Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation
  • Assessment
    • Collects comprehensive data pertinent to the patient's health or situation.
    • Performs age and disease-specific assessment/data collection independently in a systematic manner focusing on physiologic, psychological, and cognitive status.
    • Recognizes clinical and diagnostic status changes in patient status.
    • Identifies variables in patient/family education needs based on age, disease, and culturally specific learning differences.
  • Plan
    • Develops a plan of care that prescribes strategies and interventions to attain expected outcomes.
    • Formulates age and disease-specific patient/family-centered goals/outcomes based on assessment data.
    • Develops and coordinates a plan of care that is patient/family-focused, prioritized, and encompasses the continuum of care.
  • Implementation
    • Communicates, coordinates, and implements the plan of care.
    • Provides ongoing communication with patient/family, nursing colleagues, and other members of the healthcare team regarding the patient's status, rendered care, and treatment plans.
    • Implements age and disease-specific care in an organized and timely manner.
    • Provides or coordinates patient/family education as needed and ensures understanding.
    • Performs according to established protocols in clinical situations, including communicating with appropriate persons and documenting events.
    • Provides nursing care and treatments that reflect the patients' needs, advocates appropriately, and demonstrates evidence-based nursing practice and compliance with standards.
    • Performs continuous Point-of-Care electronic documentation of each individual patient's assessments, plan-of-care, interventions, and evaluation of rendered care.
    • Medication administration utilizing the newest advancements in bar-scanning and documentation technologies designed to ensure the safest delivery of medications to patients.
    • Multi-disciplinary discharging of patients to ensure safe transitioning and continuum of care.
  • Evaluation
    • Evaluates progress toward attainment of outcomes.
    • Utilizes critical thinking skills based on nursing knowledge to achieve desired patient outcomes.
    • Initiates interventions related to the patient's change in condition and unexpected response to care.
• 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.
• Must acquire and maintain competencies, certifications, and continuing education to meet facility accreditation or individual licensing requirements.
• Adheres to the American Nurses Association Code for Nurses with Interpretive Statements.
• Lifts a minimum of 35 lbs., pushes and pulls a minimum of 10 lbs., and stands a minimum of 6 hours a day.
• Adheres to HMH's Organizational and Managerial competencies and standards of behavior.
• Performs other duties and/or projects as assigned.

Qualifications

• Education, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required:
  • A minimum of an associate degree in Nursing or diploma in Nursing.
  • BSN in progress and/or willing to acquire within three (3) years of hire.
  • Must have six (6) or more months of relevant nursing experience OR must be an 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 patients and their caregivers.
  • An exceptional focus on teamwork and dedication to ongoing education.
  • The ability and passion to deliver the highest quality of care based on a strong sense of patient focus.
• Education, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Preferred:
  • National Certification in area of specialty preferred when eligible.
• Licenses and Certifications Required:
  • Current and valid Registered Nurse license to work at the assigned HMH location by date of hire.
  • BLS/CPR certification by the American Heart Association required within 60 days of hire.

Pay

Minimum starting rate of $46.25 per hour. The posted rate of pay is a reasonable good faith estimate of the minimum base pay for this role 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 vary based on factors including labor market data, experience, education, certifications, skills, geographic location, internal equity, budget, and grant funding.

Eligible positions may also receive 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

Hackensack Meridian Health offers a comprehensive benefits package for full-time and part-time (20+ hours/week) job positions, including:

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