Registered Nurse - Satellite ED - Nights

Description

Registered Nurse functions as a caregiver for a specific patient population to achieve desired outcomes. The position focuses on expanding knowledge and skills, provides effective direct care as part of the interdisciplinary team to a variety of complex patients, directs and oversees the care provided by other caregivers through delegation, validation, evaluation and coordination, and effectively coordinates patient care/unit activities among nursing peers, physicians and support services.

A Registered Nurse at Hackensack Meridian Health delivers 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.

• 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.
• 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 status, rendered care and treatment plans.
• Implements age and disease specific care in an organized and timely manner.
• Provides or coordinates 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 patients' 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.
• Medications administered utilizing the newest advancements in bar‑scanning and documentation technologies designed to ensure safe delivery of medications.
• Participates in multidisciplinary discharge planning 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 changes 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 the 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.
• 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 years of hire (applies to hires on or after Nov 2019; see contract notes for later hires).
• Must have six months or more of relevant nursing experience or be an active participant with Hackensack Meridian Health's Nurse Residency Program.
• Ability to learn quickly, adapt to changing patient needs, strong accountability for improving patient and caregiver lives, exceptional teamwork focus, dedication to ongoing education, and passion for…