Registered Nurse - Trauma ICU - Full Time Days

About the role

The Registered Nurse is a member of the interdisciplinary team working in collaboration with the Physician. The Registered Nurse utilizes the nursing care process consistent with their license and/or certification including initiation of culturally competent continuum of care including inpatient, outpatient and community settings. The Registered Nurse is responsible for overseeing any necessary coordination of the interdisciplinary plan of care and provides for its consistency with the medical treatment plan.

The patient care process includes:

• Assessment – an orderly process consisting of the identification, gathering and organization of subjective and objective data pertaining to the patient/family/significant other, including physical, psychosocial, spiritual and cultural.
• Planning – an organized step in the process that consists of the identification of actual or potential problems and desired outcomes (goals) that result in a documented plan of care. The plan of care provides direction for the patient/family/significant other and interdisciplinary team.
• Intervention – the specific interventions or orders that are implemented consistent with the plan of care and medical treatment plan.
• Evaluation – a step in the process that involves determining the effectiveness of the interventions in achieving the plan of care and determining the conclusions concerning the achievement or lack of achievement of desired outcomes. The evaluation may initiate the need for reassessment and revisions to the problems, goals, plan of care, and interventions. This step provides for documentation of required actions.

Based upon findings identified during assessment and reassessment:

• Patients have problems identified and prioritized relative to biophysical, psychological, environmental, self-care, educational and social status.
• Goals are identified consistent with the problem to provide direction for patient care and health promotion.
• Education is consistent with the identified problem and associated goals and is seen as critical to creating an environment that promotes patient empowerment.

Employee may be required to perform Limited Laboratory Services to include patient identification and preparation for specimen collection, processing samples for testing, performing required quality control testing and instrument maintenance and function checks, monitoring, recording and reporting tests results to clinicians to include critical values, and maintaining competency/certification of the aforementioned tasks and duties.

Licensed and registered care providers responsible for utilizing the care process relative to their scope of practice and knowledge base, may document the assessment, plan, intervention and evaluation.

All patient care activities are administered according to standards, procedural guidelines and organizational policy. The Registered Nurse actively supports performance improvement initiatives and provides leadership to other members of the patient care team. By participating in educational activities, the Registered Nurse assumes responsibility for continued professional and personal growth.

Qualifications

Education/License

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing; BSN preferred.
• Current Licensure as a Registered Nurse in the State of New Jersey or current multi state license required.
• American Heart Association BLS required upon hire or transfer.

Experience

Proficiency in Clinical Applications preferred at time of hire; incumbents within position will be trained appropriately and then skill will be required for this position within 30–60 days from date of hire.

Specialty Experience and Advanced Certification Requirements

Emergency Room – Mainland, Satellite Hammonton, City

• 2 years medical/surgical and/or emergency room experience preferred.
• ACLS required within 6 months of hire or transfer.
• Minimum of 8 contact hours of education every 1 year in basic trauma assessment, intervention and stabilization.
• Minimum of 8 contact hours of education every 1 year in basic stroke assessment, intervention and NIHSS to be completed by 6 months of hire or transfer and continuously maintained thereafter.
• ATCN or TNCC required within 24 months of hire or transfer.
• PALS or ENPC attained within 12 months of hire or transfer.
• CPI by 10/31/25 for existing team members; new team members have 1 year from hire or transfer date.

Trauma Bay

• ACLS, PALS & ATCN at time of hire.
• NIHSS and minimum of 8 contact hours of education every 1 year in basic stroke assessment or intervention by 5/31/25 for existing team members; new team members have 1 year from hire or transfer date.

3 Harmony Trauma

• 2 years medical/surgical experience preferred; Critical care experience preferred.
• ACLS required within 6 months from date of hire or transfer.
• ATCN required within 3 years from date of hire or transfer.
• NIHSS and minimum of 8 contact hours of education every 1 year in basic stroke assessment or intervention by 5/31/25 for existing team members; new team members have 1 year from hire or transfer date.

3 Harmony ICU, Intensive Care Unit (ICU)/(CTICU), Cardiovascular ICU (CVU)

• 2 years medical/surgical experience preferred; Critical care experience preferred.
• ACLS required within 6 months from date of hire or transfer.
• NIHSS and minimum of 8 contact hours of education every 1 year in basic stroke assessment or intervention by 5/31/25 for existing team members; new team members have 1 year from hire or transfer date.
• CCRN preferred (ICU/CTICU, CVU).

Heart and Vascular Unit (HVU)

• 2 years telemetry experience preferred.
• ACLS required within 6 months from date of hire or transfer.
• NIHSS and minimum of 8 contact hours of education every 1 year in basic stroke assessment or intervention by 5/31/25 for existing team members; new team members have 1 year from hire or transfer date.

3 Harbor (PCU), 3 Pines/3 Central, 1 South/1 Meadow, 3 Meadow, 4 South/4 Meadow, 5 Harmony, 4 Michigan, 4 Harmony, Med Surg/Cardiac/Stroke Care (2 West/2 Pines), 6 Harmony, 7 Harmony

• Medical/Surgical experience preferred.
• NIHSS and minimum of 8 contact hours of education every 1 year in basic stroke assessment or intervention by 5/31/25 for existing team members; new team members have 1 year from hire or transfer date.
• ACLS preferred (3 Harbor, 3 Pines/3 Central, 1 South/1 Meadow, 3 Meadow, 4 South/4 Meadow, 5 Harmony, 4 Michigan, 4 Harmony, Med Surg/Cardiac/Stroke Care, 7 Harmony).
• ACLS required within 1 year from date of hire or transfer (4 Michigan, 4 Harmony, 6 Harmony).

Pre-Admission Testing (PAT)

• Medical/Surgical experience preferred.

Operating Room

• Medical/Surgical, Critical Care and operating room experience preferred.
• Effective 1/1/25, all new OR team members must scrub and/or learn to scrub during their orientation within six months.
• ACLS required by 12/31/24 for all RNs in the City OR and 4/25/25 for all RNs in the Mainland OR.
• CNOR preferred.

PACU/Same Day Surgery/Recovery Room

• Critical Care or PACU experience required.
• ACLS required at time of hire or transfer.
• PALS required within 6 months from date of hire or transfer.
• CPAN preferred.

Interventional Radiology

• 2 years medical/surgical experience required; Interventional Radiology and Critical Care experience preferred.
• ACLS required at time of hire or transfer.
• PALS required within 1 year from date of hire or transfer.

Cath Lab (cath lab holding, Electrophysiology)

• Critical care, emergency room, cath-lab or telemetry experience preferred.
• ACLS at time of hire or transfer.

Non-Invasive Lab MLD

• 2 years telemetry experience required.
• ACLS at time of hire or transfer.

Endoscopy

• 2 years medical/surgical experience required; Endoscopy, telemetry and critical care experience preferred.
• ACLS required within 6 months from date of hire or transfer.
• CGRN preferred.

Radiation Oncology/Cape May/Radiation Therapy Mainland

• Oncology experience preferred.
• ONS/ONCC Radiation Therapy Certificate required within 6 months from date of hire or transfer; renewal every 2 years.
• Minimum of 12 oncology-related CEUs yearly or Oncology Certified Nurse (OCN) or Radiation Oncology Certified Nurse (ROCN) certification renewed every 4 years.
• ROCN or OCN preferred.

Medical Oncology/Infusion Services/Cape May Medical Oncology/Retired Nurse Program (Oncology)

• Oncology experience preferred.
• ONS Fundamentals of Chemotherapy/Immunotherapy Administration or Chemotherapy/Immunotherapy Biotherapy Provider Card required.