Job Information
Hackensack Meridian Health Registered Nurse - SRI - IP Nursing - Per Diem Days in Brick, New Jersey
Overview
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’salso 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.
Responsibilities
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.
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 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.
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 in order to meet any 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.
Other duties and/or projects as assigned.
Qualifications
• BSN in progress and/or willing to acquire within three (3) years of hire.
• NJ State Professional Registered Nurse License.
• AHA Basic Health Care Life Support HCP Certification.
Job ID 2024-154521
Department O-JRI - IP Nursing Floor
Site Ocean University Medical Cntr
Job Location US-NJ-Brick
Position Type Per Diem
Standard Hours Per Week 1
Shift Day
Shift Hours Day
Weekend Work One Weekend a Month
On Call Work No On-Call Required
Holiday Work Two of 6
