Registered Nurse- Emergency Department- Raritan Bay- Nights

Registered Nurse – Emergency Department – Raritan Bay – P/T with Benefits Nights

Location: Raritan Bay Medical Center, Perth Amboy, New Jersey

Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH) 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. We help our patients live better, healthier lives and support one another to succeed in a culture rooted in connection and collaboration.

Our competitive benefits are just the beginning of a comprehensive total rewards package.

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• Requisition #:
• Shift: Night
• Status:
  Part‑time with Benefits

• Collects comprehensive data pertinent to the patient’s health or the situation.
• Performs age and disease‑specific assessment/data collection independently in a systematic manner focusing on physiologic, psychological and cognitive status.
• Recognizes clinical and diagnostic status changes in patient status.
• Identifies variables in patient/family education needs based on age, disease and culturally specific learning differences.
• Develops a plan of care that prescribes strategies and interventions to attain expected outcomes.
• Formulates age and disease‑specific patient/family‑centered goals/outcomes based on assessment data.
• Develops and coordinates a plan of care which is patient/family focused, prioritized and encompasses the continuum of care.
• Communicates, coordinates, and implements the plan of care.
• 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.
• Implements age and disease‑specific care in an organized and timely manner.
• Provides or coordinates the patient/family education as needed and ensures understanding.
• Performs according to established protocols in clinical situations, including communicating with appropriate persons and documenting events.
• Provides nursing care and treatments that reflect the patient’s needs, advocates appropriately and demonstrates evidence‑based nursing practice and compliance with standards.
• Performs continuous Point‑of‑Care electronic documentation of each individual patient’s assessments, plan‑of‑care, interventions and evaluation of rendered care.
• Medication administration utilizing the newest advancements in bar‑scanning and documentation technologies designed to ensure the safest delivery of medications to patients.
• Multi‑disciplinary discharging of patients to ensure safe transitioning and continuum of care.
• Evaluates progress toward attainment of outcomes.
• Utilizes critical thinking skills based on nursing knowledge to achieve desired patient outcomes.
• Initiates interventions related to patient’s change in condition and unexpected response to care.

• Identifies ethical issues in the practice setting and brings them to the attention of other team members.
• Recognizes and responds to opportunities to enhance patient satisfaction.
• Must acquire and maintain competencies, certifications and continuing education to meet facility accreditation or individual licensing requirements.
• Adheres 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.
• Adheres to HMH’s Organizational and Managerial competencies and standards of behavior.

• BSN in progress and/or willing to acquire within three (3) years of hire.
• Must have six (6) or more months of relevant nursing experience or be an active participant in HMH’s Nurse Residency Program.
• The ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing patient needs, a strong sense of accountability for improving patient and caregiver lives, exceptional teamwork, dedication to ongoing education, and passion to deliver the…