Registered Nurse - Respiratory - Per Diem Nights

REGISTERED NURSE - RESPIRATORY - PER DIEM NIGHTS

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Registered Nurse – Respiratory – Per Diem Nights

JFK University Medical Center

Edison, New Jersey

Hackensack Meridian Health nurses care for patients and their families at every stage of life, 24 hours a day, at bedsides in 9 community hospitals, 4 academic medical centers, a behavioral health hospital, 2 children’s hospitals, 2 rehabilitation hospitals, medical offices, and care facilities across the state.

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.

Hackensack Meridian Health is one of the most recognized health‑care networks in the country for nursing excellence with 7 Magnet designations. In joining our nursing team, you’ll work with collaborative colleagues who are pushing each other—and patient care—to keep getting better.

• Collaborative
• Courageous
• Compassionate
• Creative
• Connected

• Requisition #
• Shift: Night
• Status:
  Per Diem

The Registered Nurse functions as a caregiver for a specific patient population in order to achieve desired outcomes. This position focuses on expanding knowledge and skills, provides effective direct care as part of the interdisciplinary team to a variety of complex patients. This position directs and oversees the care provided by other caregivers through delegation, validation, evaluation, and coordination. This position effectively coordinates patient care/unit activities among nursing peers, physicians and support services.

A Registered Nurse at Hackensack Meridian Health involves the 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.

Activities include:

• Assessment: Collects comprehensive data pertinent to the patient’s health, performs age and disease specific assessment, recognizes clinical status changes, identifies variables in patient/family education needs.
• Planning: Develops a plan of care that prescribes strategies and interventions, formulates age and disease specific goals, coordinates a patient/family focused plan.
• Implementation: Communicates, coordinates, and implements the plan of care, provides ongoing communication with patient/family and team, ensures education, documents events, administers medication safely, supports multidisciplinary discharge.
• Evaluation: Evaluates progress toward outcomes, utilizes critical thinking to achieve desired outcomes, initiates interventions related to changes in patient condition.

• Identify ethical issues and bring them to the attention of other team members.
• Recognize and respond to opportunities to enhance patient satisfaction.
• Acquire and maintain competencies, certifications and continuing education to meet facility and licensing requirements.
• Adhere to the American Nurses Association Code for Nurses with Interpretive Statements.
• Lift a minimum of 35 lbs., push/pull a minimum of 10 lbs. and stand a minimum of 6 hours a day.
• Adhere to HMH’s Organizational and Managerial competencies and standards of behavior.
• Other duties and/or projects as assigned.

• 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 (applicable to hires on or after November 2019).
  * P4567U applies to hires after 6/1/2021.
  ** CC456U, CC689U, CC891U per CC Union Contract – All staff RNs required to have a BSN within five years of hire. Advanced master’s degree in nursing satisfies…