Registered Nurse - Emergency Room - HPW - PT

Position Overview

Pay Range: $43.90 - $59.69 (Full‑time equivalent)

Scheduled Weekly

Hours:

24

• Delivers quality care to patients through a team effort in working with others through the nursing process of assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
• Assures patient safety by executing appropriate policies & procedures.
• Provides support for pain management, both pharmacological and non‑pharmacological measures, and assists patients/families in identifying individualized comfort measures.
• Mobilizes resources in complex cases to maximize patients’ control and participation over their own recovery.
• Provides information and interpretation of the patient’s condition and offers coping mechanisms, adapting communication to the patient’s information needs.
• Formulates and documents a discharge plan that maximizes the patient’s ability to continue meaningful life activities.
• Integrates assessment and diagnostic information with intuition to foresee potential age‑specific healthcare needs.
• Ensures handoff communication and includes a report on the situations most likely to develop and the problems awaiting patient.
• Identifies proactively issues to be resolved related to patient education for medication management and discharge planning.
• Uses discretionary judgment to appropriately modify patient care regimens and facilitates appropriate responses from other health‑care team members.
• Explores multiple aspects of the care regimen with case manager and health‑care providers to promote appropriate resolution.
• Displays ability to see the entire unit and is self‑motivated to develop a plan for adjusting staffing patterns as needed.
• Attends educational sessions when offered to improve the ability to assess unit needs, including workshops on charge nursing, leadership training, critical decision‑making, and prioritization of workload.
• Plans and provides unique, individualized comfort measures utilizing intuitive, innovative, and evidence‑based practices.
• Participates in unit‑based and/or hospital‑based committees, performance‑improvement activities, Joint Commission readiness, unit‑level patient satisfaction efforts, and HCAAPS measurement awareness.
• Performs any other related duties as required or assigned.

• Associate’s degree or graduate from an accredited school of nursing.
• Experience:
  
  None required. Previous nursing experience preferred.
• Other Credentials: AHA BLS – Healthcare Provider, Registered Nurse – NJ.
• Other Credentials:
  Requires TNCC (or must obtain within 1 year of hire) AND 8 hours of trauma‑related continuing nursing education (CNE) if assigned to RMC ICU/CCU, RMC Surgical Trauma Unit, RMC PACU, or Emergency Department (all campuses).
• Other Credentials:
  Requires NIH Stroke Scale certification (or must obtain by end of orientation) AND 8 hours of stroke‑related CNE if assigned to Critical Care, Emergency Department, Neuro Units, Cardiology Inpatient at Hopewell, or Peds/Peds ED.
• CPR Requirements:
  Requires ACLS (or must obtain within 6 months of hire date) if assigned to Critical Care/Intermediate/Telemetry, Emergency Rooms, Pediatrics/Pediatrics Emergency Room, Labor & Delivery, Surgical Services, Interventional Procedures, or Observation.
• Requirements: NRP (or must obtain within 6 months of hire date) if assigned to Maternity Services or Emergency Room RMC/Deborah.
• Requirements: PALS (or must obtain within 6 months of hire date) if assigned to Emergency Rooms, Infant Follow‑Up, Surgical Services (PACU & Same Day Surgery), or Pediatrics/Pediatric ED.
• ENPC accepted in lieu of PALs for Adult Emergency Room.
• Knowledge and
  
  Skills:
  
  Strong problem‑solving, decision‑making, high interpersonal, and excellent verbal and written communication skills; rapid adaptation to change; good work ethic; knowledge of nursing principles, practices, and current trends.
• Special Training:
  Demonstrates knowledge of nursing skills, hospital practices, procedures, and standards.
• Usual Work Day: 12 hours.

• Frequent physical demands include: push/pull, twisting, bending, reaching forward, reaching overhead, squat/kneel/crawl, wrist position deviation, pinching/fine motor activities,…