Registered Nurse - PMC - Four East Surgical - P/T with Benefits Nights

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 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

• Collect comprehensive data pertinent to the patient's health or situation, performing age and disease-specific assessments independently and systematically.
• Recognize clinical and diagnostic status changes in patient conditions.
• Identify patient and family education needs based on age, disease, and culturally specific learning differences.
• Develop a plan of care that prescribes strategies and interventions to attain expected outcomes, formulating patient/family-centered goals.
• Coordinate a patient/family-focused plan of care, prioritizing and encompassing the continuum of care.
• Communicate, coordinate, and implement the plan of care with the patient, family, and healthcare team.
• Provide or coordinate patient/family education and ensure understanding.
• Perform care according to established protocols, documenting events and communicating with appropriate persons.
• Deliver nursing care and treatments reflecting patient needs, advocating appropriately, and demonstrating evidence-based practice.
• Perform continuous Point-of-Care electronic documentation of assessments, plan-of-care, interventions, and evaluations.
• Administer medications utilizing bar-scanning and documentation technologies to ensure safe delivery.
• Facilitate multi-disciplinary discharge planning to ensure safe transitions and continuum of care.
• Evaluate progress toward attainment of outcomes, utilizing critical thinking to achieve desired patient results.
• Initiate interventions related to changes in patient condition and unexpected responses to care.
• Identify ethical issues in practice and bring them to the attention of the team.
• Respond to opportunities to enhance patient satisfaction.
• Maintain competencies, certifications, and continuing education to meet facility accreditation and licensing requirements.
• Adhere to the American Nurses Association Code for Nurses with Interpretive Statements.
• Lift a minimum of 35 lbs., push and pull a minimum of 10 lbs., and stand a minimum of 6 hours per day.
• Adhere to HMH's Organizational and Managerial competencies and standards of behavior.

Qualifications

• BSN in progress and/or willingness to acquire within three (3) years of hire (applies to team members hired on or after November 2019).
• Six (6) or more months of relevant nursing experience OR active participation in Hackensack Meridian Health's Nurse Residency Program.
• Ability to learn quickly, adapt to changing patient needs, and demonstrate a strong sense of accountability for improving patient and caregiver lives.
• Exceptional focus on teamwork and dedication to ongoing education.
• Passion for delivering high-quality care based on patient focus.

Preferred: National Certification in area of specialty when eligible.

Licenses and Certifications

• NJ State Professional Registered Nurse License.
• AHA Basic Health Care Life Support HCP Certification (within 60 days of entering position).

Pay

The minimum starting rate of pay for this role is $45.20 per hour. The posted rate is a reasonable good faith estimate and may vary based on factors such as labor market data, experience, education, certifications, skills, geographic location, internal equity, budget, and grant funding. Some positions may also be eligible for performance-based incentives, bonuses, commissions, or shift differentials for evening, night, or weekend shifts.

Benefits

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

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