Registered Nurse - Special Care Nursery & Postpartum - F/T Days

About the role

The Registered Nurse at Hackensack Meridian Health functions as a caregiver for a specific patient population, providing and ensuring safe and excellent delivery of individualized patient care. This role involves the delivery of nursing practices according to the most up-to-date evidence-based research, nursing policies, and standards of care.

Responsibilities

• Assessment: Collects comprehensive data pertinent to the patient's health or the 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. Develops a plan of care that prescribes strategies and interventions to attain expected outcomes. Develops and coordinates a plan of care which is patient / family focused, prioritized and encompasses the continuum of care. 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.
• Planning: Provides or coordinates the 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.
• Implementation: Implements age and disease specific care in an organized and timely manner. 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 our 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. 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.

Qualifications

• 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
• 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
• A minimum of six (6) or more months of relevant nursing experience OR must be an active participant with Hackensack Meridian Health's Nurse Residency Program
• Two to three (2-3) years inpatient nursing experience in level 3 nursery or Special Care Nursey strongly preferred
• ACLS certification is strongly preferred
• National Certification in area of specialty preferred when eligible