Registered Nurse - Radiology - F/T Evenings

About the role

Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives — and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community. Together, we keep getting better - advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change.

Responsibilities

• Functions as a caregiver for a specific patient population to achieve desired outcomes.
• Expands knowledge and skills, provides effective direct care as part of the interdisciplinary team to a variety of complex patients.
• Directs and oversees the care provided by other caregivers through delegation, validation, evaluation, and coordination.
• Coordinates patient care/unit activities among nursing peers, physicians and support services.
• Delivers nursing practices according to up-to-date evidence-based research, nursing policies, and standards of care to provide safe and excellent individualized patient care.
• 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; identifies variables in patient/family education needs based on age, disease, and culturally specific learning differences.
• Planning: 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 health care 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