Registered Nurse - Bariatrics - Per Diem Nights

Registered Nurse – Bariatrics – Per Diem Nights

Location:

JFK University Medical Center, Edison, New Jersey

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.

• Deliver 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.
• Collect comprehensive data pertinent to the patient's health.
• Perform age and disease specific assessment / data collection independently.
• Recognize clinical and diagnostic status changes in patient status.
• Identify variables in patient/family education needs based on age, disease, and culturally specific learning differences.
• Develop a plan of care that prescribes strategies and interventions to attain expected outcomes.
• Formulate age and disease specific patient/family centered goals/outcomes based on assessment data.
• Coordinate a plan of care which is patient/family focused, prioritized and encompasses the continuum of care.
• Communicate, coordinate, and implement the plan of care.
• Provide ongoing communication with patient/family, nursing colleagues and other members of the health care team regarding patient's status, rendered care and treatment plans.
• Implement age and disease specific care in an organized and timely manner.
• Provide or coordinate patient/family education as needed and ensure understanding.
• Perform according to established protocols in clinical situations, including communicating with appropriate persons and documenting events.
• Provide nursing care and treatments that reflect the patients' needs, advocate appropriately and demonstrate evidence-based nursing practice and compliance with standards.
• Perform continuous Point-of-Care electronic documentation of each individual patient's assessments, plan-of-care, interventions and evaluation of rendered care.
• Medicate using bar-scanning and documentation technologies to ensure the safest delivery of medications.
• Multi-disciplinary discharge planning to ensure safe transitioning and continuum of care.
• Evaluate progress toward attainment of outcomes.
• Utilize critical thinking skills based on nursing knowledge to achieve desired patient outcomes.
• Initiate interventions related to patient's change in condition and unexpected response to care.

• Identify ethical issues in the practice setting 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 accreditation or licensing requirements.
• Adhere to American Nurses Association Code for Nurses with Interpretive Statements.
• Lifts a minimum of 35 lbs., pushes and pulls a minimum of 10 lbs. and stands a minimum of 6 hours a day.
• Adhere to HMH's Organizational and Managerial competencies and standards of behavior.
• Perform 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 (applies to team members hired on or after November 2019).
  * P4567U applies to team members hired after 6/1/2021.
  ** CC456U, CC689U, CC891U per CC Union Contract – All staff Registered Nurses (RN) are required to have a BSN within five years of hire. Advanced master’s degree in nursing programs satisfy the BSN requirement (ie Associates to MSN).
• Six (6) or more months of relevant nursing experience OR active participation with Hackensack Meridian Health's Nurse Residency…