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 which 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 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 patient's change in condition and unexpected response to care.
• Additional Responsibilities
  • 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 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.
  • Other duties and/or projects as assigned.

Qualifications

• Education, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required:
  • 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.
  • 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, 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:
  • Must have 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.

Pay

HMH is committed to pay equity and transparency. 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.

• Minimum starting rate: $46.25 per hour.
• The base compensation determined at the time of the offer may vary based on factors including but not limited to labor market data, experience, education, certifications, skills, geographic location, internal equity, budget, and grant funding.
• Certain positions may be eligible for shift differentials for work performed on evening, night, or weekend shifts.

Benefits

In addition to competitive 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.
• Some jobs may also be eligible for performance-based incentives, bonuses, or commissions not reflected in the starting rate.