Registered Nurse - Shore Care - Per Diem

REGISTERED NURSE - SHORE CARE - PER DIEM

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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.

• A Registered Nurse, Shore Care 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.
• Day in the life includes assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
• 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.
• Recognizes clinical and diagnostic status changes in patient status.
• Identifies variables in patient/family education needs.
• 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.
• Communicates, coordinates, and implements the plan of care.
• Provides ongoing communication with patient/family, nursing colleagues and other health care team members.
• 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 communication 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 patient's assessments, plan-of-care, interventions and evaluation of rendered care.
• Medication administration utilizing the latest technological advancements.
• Participates in multidisciplinary discharge planning to ensure safe transition.
• Evaluates progress toward desired outcomes and initiates interventions as needed.
• Identifies ethical issues and brings them to the attention of team members.
• Recognizes opportunities to enhance patient satisfaction.
• Acquires and maintains required competencies, certifications and continuing education.
• Adheres to the American Nurses Association Code and HMH Organizational standards.
• Willing to travel between all HMH locations.

• Long periods of sitting with frequent standing, walking or moving.
• Requires periods of keying on computer terminal to input information.
• Requires constant verbal communication in person or by phone.
• Requires frequent reading of correspondence, email, reports, material, etc.
• Exposure to communicable diseases.
• Lifting >35 pounds.
• Extended wearing of PPE.
• Application of surgical mask for long periods of time.
• Lifting a minimum of 35 lbs., pushing and pulling a minimum of 10 lbs. and standing a minimum of 6 hours a day.

• Associate's degree in Nursing or Diploma in Nursing.
• Minimum of two (2) years recent experience in specialty (effective May 5, 2025).
• Minimum of one (1) year experience in a floating professional environment (effective May 5, 2025).
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing patient needs.
• Strong sense of accountability for improving the lives of our patients and their caregivers.
• Exceptional focus on teamwork, dedication to ongoing education, and passion to deliver highest quality care.

• National Certification in area of specialty preferred when eligible.
• Bachelor's degree in Nursing.