Registered Nurse - Neuro Telemetry - RMC - Per Diem - Varies

About the role

The role involves delivering quality care to patients through teamwork, implementing policies and procedures for patient safety, managing pain, and providing support for medication management. The position also requires anticipating and addressing potential healthcare needs, facilitating responses from other healthcare team members, and participating in various committees and performance improvement activities.

Responsibilities

• Delivers quality care to patients through a team effort in working with others through the nursing process of assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation.
• Affirms patient safety by executing appropriate policies & procedures.
• Supports pain management and pharmacological and non-pharmacological measures.
• Assists patient/family in identifying individualized comfort measures.
• Mobilizes resources in complex cases to maximize patients' control and participation over their own recovery.
• Provides information and interpretation of the patient's condition and offers coping mechanisms.
• Formulates and documents a discharge plan that maximizes the patient's ability to continue with meaningful life activities.
• Integrates assessment and diagnostic information with intuition to foresee potential age-specific healthcare needs.
• Ensures handoff communication and includes a report in terms of the situations most likely to develop and the problems awaiting patient.
• Identifies proactive issues to be resolved related to patient education for medication management.
• Provides discharge planning which includes instructions on discharge medications.
• Uses discretionary judgment to appropriately modify patient care regimens.
• Facilitates appropriate response from other health care team members to provide quality and safe care.
• Explores multiple aspects of care regimen with case manager and health care providers to promote appropriate resolution.
• Displays ability to see the entire unit and is self-motivated to develop a plan for adjusting staffing patterns as needed.
• Attends educational sessions when offered in areas that will improve one's ability to assess the needs on one's respective department.
• Plans and provides unique and individualized comfort measures while utilizing intuitive and innovative approaches which are scientifically sound and are a result of evidenced-based practice.
• Participates in unit based and/or hospital based committees.
• Participates actively in the preparation of Joint Commission readiness.
• Participates in unit level effort to achieve successful Patient Satisfaction scores and has an awareness of the HCAAPS measurements.
• Performs any other related duties as required or assigned.

Requirements

• Education: Associate's degree or graduate from an accredited school of nursing.
• Experience: None. Previous nursing experience preferred.
• Other Credentials: AHA BLS - Healthcare Provider, Registered Nurse - NJ.
• Knowledge and Skills: Possesses strong problem-solving and decision-making skills. Demonstrates high interpersonal skills at an individual as well as team level. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Adjusts quickly and reacts positively to change. Considerable knowledge of principles, practices and current trends in nursing. Possesses good work ethic.
• Special Training: Demonstrates knowledge of nursing skills, hospital practices, procedures and standards.

Qualifications

• Demonstrates knowledge of nursing skills, hospital practices, procedures and standards.
• Usual Work Day: 12 Hours.
• Physical Demands And Work Environment: Frequent physical demands include: Push/Pull, Twisting, Bending, Reaching forward, Reaching overhead, Squat/kneel/crawl, Wrist position deviation, Pinching/fine motor activities, Keyboard use/repetitive motion, Taste or Smell. Occasional physical demands include: Sitting, Climbing (e.g., stairs or ladders). Continuous physical demands include: Standing, Walking, Carry objects, Talk or Hear. Sensory Requirements include: Very Accurate 20/40, Near Vision, Very Accurate 20/40, Far Vision, Color Discrimination, Accurate Depth Perception, Accurate Hearing.
• Anticipated Occupational Exposure Risks Include the following: Bloodborne Pathogens, Chemical, Airborne Communicable Disease, Dust/Particulate Matter.

Skills

• Possesses strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Demonstrates high interpersonal skills at an individual as well as team level.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Adjusts quickly and reacts positively to change.
• Considerable knowledge of principles, practices and current trends in nursing.
• Possesses good work ethic.

Benefits

• Retirement Savings and Investment Plan.
• Sick Time Off.
• Employee Assistance Program.

Pay

The listed pay range or pay rate reflects compensation for a full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) position. Actual compensation may differ depending on assigned hours and position status (e.g., part-time).