Duties: Job Summary:
A Registered Nurse 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.
A day in the life of a Registered Nurse includes: Assessment, Planning, Implementation and Evaluation Assessment.
- 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.
Implementation:
- 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 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.
- Medication administration utilizing the newest advancements in bar-scanning and documentation technologies designed to ensure the safest delivery of medications to our patients.
- Multi-disciplinary discharging of patients to ensure safe transitioning and continuum of care.
Evaluation:
- Evaluates progress toward attainment of outcomes.
- Initiates interventions related to patient's change in condition and unexpected response to care.
Skills:
Required Skills & Experience:
- Must have six (6) or more months of relevant nursing experience OR must be an active participant with Hackensack Meridian Health's Nurse Residency Program.
Preferred Skills & Experience:
Education:
Required Education:
Preferred Education:
Required Certifications & Licensure:
- NJ State Professional Registered Nurse License.
- BLS-AHA.
- ACLS-AHA
Preferred Certifications & Licensure:
Languages:
English Read Write Speak
Certifications & Licenses:
- ACLS Certification
- BLS Certification
- NJ State Professional Registered Nurse License
Skills and Experience
Skills:
Required
PATIENT ASSESSMENT
DISEASE-SPECIFIC ASSESSMENT
CLINICAL DOCUMENTATION
PATIENT EDUCATION
CARE COORDINATION
Additional
MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION
POINT-OF-CARE ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTATION
EVIDENCE-BASED NURSING PRACTICE
MULTI-DISCIPLINARY DISCHARGE PLANNING
Languages: English( Speak, Read, Write )
Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor's Degree