Registered Nurse - NICU - Hopewell - Full-Time - NIGHTS

About the role

The role involves delivering quality care to patients through teamwork, ensuring patient safety, and providing support for pain management and other interventions. The position also requires formulating discharge plans, anticipating healthcare needs, and facilitating responses from other health care team members.

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 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.
• Anticipates patients' needs and ensures handoff communication.
• Identifies and addresses issues 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 responses 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: Previous nursing experience preferred.
• Other Credentials: AHA BLS - Healthcare Provider, Registered Nurse – NJ or Registered Nurse – NLC multi-state.
• Certifications: Requires TNCC (or must obtain within 1 year of hire) and 8 hours of Trauma-related Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) contact hours annually if assigned to certain departments. Requires NIH Stroke Scale Certification (or must obtain by end of orientation) and 8 hours of Stroke-related Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) contact hours annually if assigned to certain units. Requires ACLS (or must obtain within 6 months of hire date) if assigned to certain departments. Requires NRP (or must obtain within 6 months of hire date) if assigned to certain departments. Requires PALS (or must obtain within 6 months of hire date) if assigned to certain departments.
• Physical Demands: Frequent physical demands include pushing/pulling, twisting, bending, reaching forward, reaching overhead, squatting/kneeling/crawling, wrist position deviation, pinching/fine motor activities, keyboard use/repetitive motion, taste/smell, sitting, climbing (stairs/ladders), standing, walking, carrying objects, talking/hearing, lifting floor to waist 25 lbs., lifting waist level and above 25 lbs., and sensory requirements including very accurate 20/40 vision, near/far vision, color discrimination, accurate depth perception, and accurate hearing.
• Occupational Exposure Risks: Includes bloodborne pathogens, chemicals, airborne communicable diseases, dust/particulate matter.

Qualifications

• Possesses strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Demonstrates high interpersonal skills at an individual and 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.

Skills

• Knowledge of nursing skills, hospital practices, procedures, and standards.

Benefits

• Medical Plan
• Prescription drug coverage & In-House Employee Pharmacy
• Dental Plan
• Vision Plan
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Healthcare FSA
• Dependent Care FSA
• Retail Savings and Investment Plan
• Basic Group Term Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
• Supplemental Group Term Life & Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
• Disability Benefits – Long Term Disability (LTD)
• Disability Benefits – Short Term Disability (STD)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Commuter Transit
• Commuter Parking
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Voluntary Life Spouse
• Voluntary Life Employee
• Voluntary Legal Services
• Voluntary Accident, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity Insurance
• Voluntary Identity Theft Insurance
• Voluntary Pet Insurance
• Paid Time-Off Program