Registered Nurse - Post Anesthesia Care Unit - Evening

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Registered Nurse - Post Anesthesia Care Unit - F/T Evening

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Hackensack, New Jersey

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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.

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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.

• Delivery of nursing practices according to evidence-based research, nursing policies, and standards of care to provide safe and individualized patient care
• Assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation: collects data pertinent to the patient’s health or situation
• Perform age and disease specific assessment/data collection independently with attention to physiologic, psychological, and cognitive status
• Recognize clinical and diagnostic status changes
• Identify education needs based on age, disease, and culturally specific differences
• Develop and coordinate a plan of care that is patient/family focused and encompasses the continuum of care
• Communicate and implement the plan of care; provide ongoing communication with patient/family, nursing colleagues, and health care team
• Coordinate and document care and interventions; provide education as needed; follow established protocols
• Provide or coordinate patient/family education and ensure understanding
• Utilize continuing point-of-care documentation; document assessments, plan-of-care, interventions and evaluation
• Medication administration using modern bar-scanning and documentation technologies
• Multidisciplinary discharging of patients for safe transition and continuity of care
• Evaluate progress toward outcomes and apply critical thinking to achieve desired results
• Identify ethical issues and address with the team; seek opportunities to enhance patient satisfaction
• Maintain competencies, certifications, and continuing education as required
• Adhere to American Nurses Association Code for Nurses with Interpretive Statements
• Lifts a minimum of 35 lbs.; pushes/pulls a minimum of 10 lbs.; stands at least 6 hours per day
• All other duties and/or projects as assigned

• Minimum of an associate degree in nursing or diploma of nursing
• BSN in progress and/or willing to acquire within three years of hire
• Current and valid Registered Nurse license for the assigned HMH location by date of hire
• BLS/CPR certification by American Heart Association within 60 days of hire
• Six months of relevant nursing experience or active participation in Hackensack Meridian Health's Nurse Residency Program
• Ability to learn quickly, adapt to changing patient needs, strong accountability, teamwork, ongoing education, and commitment to high quality patient care
• PACU experience preferred; ED, Telemetry, and Critical Care experience preferred
• National Certification in area of specialty preferred when eligible

Minimum rate of $47.64 hourly.…