Registered Nurse - Pediatrics - Nights

Overview

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.

A day in the life of a Registered Nurse includes:
Assessment, Planning, Implementation and Evaluation Assessment

• 1. Collects comprehensive data pertinent to the patient's health or the situation.
• 2. Performs age and disease specific assessment / data collection independently in a systematic manner focusing on physiologic, psychological and cognitive status.
• 3. Recognizes clinical and diagnostic status changes in patient status.
• 4. Identifies variables in patient/family education needs based on age, disease, and culturally specific learning differences.

• 1. Develops a plan of care that prescribes strategies and interventions to attain expected outcomes.
• 2. Formulates age and disease specific patient / family centered goals / outcomes based on assessment data.
• 3. Develops and coordinates a plan of care which is patient / family focused, prioritized and encompasses the continuum of care.

• 1. Communicates, coordinates, and implements the plan of care.
• 2. 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.
• 3. Implements age and disease specific care in an organized and timely manner.
• 4. Provides or coordinates the patient / family education as needed and ensures understanding.
• 5. Performs according to established protocols in clinical situations, including communicating with appropriate persons and documenting events.
• 6. Provides nursing care and treatments that reflect the patients' needs, advocates appropriately and demonstrates evidence-based nursing practice and compliance with standards.
• 7. Performs continuous Point-of-Care electronic documentation of each individual patient's assessments, plan-of-care, interventions and evaluation of rendered care.
• 8. Medication administration utilizing the newest advancements in bar-scanning and documentation technologies designed to ensure the safest delivery of medications to our patients.
• 9. Multi-disciplinary discharging of patients to ensure safe transitioning and continuum of care.

• 1. Evaluates progress toward attainment of outcomes.
• 2. Utilizes critical thinking skills based on nursing knowledge to achieve desired patient outcomes.
• 3. Initiates interventions related to patient's change in condition and unexpected response to care.

• 1. Identifies ethical issues in the practice setting and brings them to the attention of other team members.
• 2. Recognizes and responds to opportunities to enhance patient satisfaction.
• 3. Must acquire and maintain competencies, certifications and continuing education in order to meet any facility accreditation or individual licensing requirements.
• 4. Adheres to American Nurses Association Code for Nurses with Interpretive Statements.
• 5. Lifts a minimum of 35 lbs., pushes and pulls a minimum of 10 lbs. and stands a minimum of 6 hours a day.
• 6. Adheres to HMH's Organizational and Managerial competencies and standards of behavior.
• 7. Other duties and/or projects as assigned.

• 1. A minimum of an associate in Nursing or diploma of Nursing degree.
• 2. BSN in progress and/or willing to acquire within three (3) years of hire. (Note this 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.
  
  Note:
  
  Advanced masters degree in nursing programs satisfy the BSN requirement (ie Associates to MSN).
• 3. Must have six (6) or more months of…