Emeritus RN - Maternal Child Health - Per Diem Days

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.

The Emeritus Registered Nurse (E-RN) is a recent or soon to be retired clinical nurse with an active RN license. This role includes support for tasks while role modeling reliable, safe and high-quality patient care. The E-RN uses accumulated knowledge over the course of a career to provide support to nursing team members in specific areas of strategic priority related to safety, quality, patient satisfaction, nurse education, and team member engagement.

• Provides support to nursing team members in specific areas of strategic priority related to safety, quality, patient satisfaction, and team member engagement, at the directions of and under the supervision of Department Leaders. 
• Requests and assesses assignments with skill and abilities in collaboration with unit Leaders. 
• Accepts various assignments as delegated; examples include, but not limited to: 
  • Safety: Round for patient safety, respond to alarms, and monitor patients during off-unit transports 
  • Quality: Round for problem-prone quality areas, complete audits/gather data, participate in unit process improvement projects, and assist with Regulatory readiness. 
  • Patient Satisfaction: Round proactively for patient needs, respond to patient call bells, support admission, transfers and discharge processes, assist with intravenous preparing/disconnecting/removing, dispensing PRN medication (only as directed or prescribed), assist with ambulation, obtain and record patient vitals, follow up with discharged patients via telephone. 
  • Team member engagement: Provide unit level in-services, serve as unit expert such as Dimensions Nurse Champion, cover patient assignment for team member meal breaks, serve as primary or secondary preceptor for new nurses, mentor nurse residents and other nurses on the unit, and participate in/lead unit shared governance activities. 

• Creates and nurtures a safe and non-punitive learning environment for the novice, advanced beginner and staff nurses by mentoring and engaging in developmental activities.
• Champions the HMH safety, quality and high reliability initiatives and providing evidence of the efficacy of the initiatives in practice. 
• Integrates new knowledge, development of new skills and increases critical thinking capacity of the novice nurse as they advance in the development of clinical practice. 
• The emeritus nurse, in concert with the clinical educator, may provide a variety of appropriate learning experiences to the novice nurse for professional development. This could include learning modules, journal clubs, group learning, etc. 
• Work closely and collaboratively with various nursing and non-nursing departments to meet organizational goals. 
• Other duties and/or projects as assigned. 
• Adheres to HMH Organizational competencies and standards of behavior.

Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

• 25 years recent clinical nursing experience. 
• Proficiency in teaching, mentoring and coaching new graduates and novice nurses. 
• Has attended the preceptor training and has served as a preceptor within the last 2 years. 
• Demonstrated expertise in integrating evidence-based research to improve professional practice and care of the patient. 

Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Preferred:

• BSN strongly preferred. 

Licenses and Certifications Required:

• NJ State Professional Registered Nurse License. 
• AHA Basic Health Care Life Support HCP Certification. 
• National Certification in area of Specialty.