Registered Nurse - Trauma Center - P/T with Benefits Days

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. The Care Center is a 12-bed unit providing quick, emergency services to over 20,000 patients of all ages each year. We offer an educational environment for eager nurses to grow and learn.

Responsibilities

• Delivery of nursing practices according to the most up-to-date evidence-based research, nursing policies, and standards of care, to provide and ensure safe and excellent delivery of individualized patient care.
• Ongoing communication with patients, nursing colleagues, and other members of the health care team regarding patient’s status, rendered care, and treatment plans.
• Medication administration utilizing the newest advancements in bar-scanning and documentation technologies designed to ensure the safest delivery of medications to our patients.
• Ongoing Point-of-Care electronic documentation of each individual patient’s assessments, plan-of-care, interventions, and evaluation of rendered care.
• Patient and family-centered education aimed at optimizing health, wellness, and disease management.
• Multi-disciplinary discharging of patients to ensure safe transitioning and continuum of care.

Qualifications

• Current and valid New Jersey Registered Nurse license is required.
• BLS/CPR certification by American Heart Association is required within 60 days of hire.
• ACLS, PALS, TNCC, ATCN preferred.
• Must have a minimum of 6 months of nursing experience or be an active participant in the Hackensack Meridian Health Nurse Residency program.
• 2 years critical care and/or ED trauma nursing experience strongly preferred.
• BSN in progress and/or willing to acquire within three (3) years of hire.
• The ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing patient needs, a strong sense of accountability for improving the lives of our patients and their caregivers, an exceptional focus on teamwork, dedication to ongoing education, and the ability and passion to deliver the highest quality of care based on a strong sense of patient focus are all required.

Pay

Minimum starting rate of $45.14 per hour. The posted rate of pay is a reasonable good faith estimate of the minimum base pay for this role at the time of posting and does not reflect the full value of our market-competitive total rewards package. The base compensation may vary based on factors including labor market data, experience, education, certifications, skills, geographic location, internal equity, budget, and grant funding.

Benefits

In addition to our compensation for full-time and part-time (20+ hours/week) job positions, HMH offers a comprehensive benefits package, including:

• Health, dental, and vision benefits.
• Paid leave.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Retirement benefits.
• Eligibility for performance-based incentives, bonuses, or commissions (not reflected in the starting rate).
• Shift differentials for work performed on evening, night, or weekend shifts.