Registered Nurse - JRI - Medical Rehabilitation - Nights

Registered Nurse - JRI - Medical Rehabilitation - F/T Nights at Hackensack Meridian Health summary:

This position is for a Registered Nurse at JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute focusing on providing comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation care to adults with complex pulmonary, orthopedic, neurologic, and cardiac conditions. The role involves assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patient care within an interdisciplinary team to promote recovery and independence. Candidates should have relevant nursing experience, licensure, and a commitment to evidence-based practice and continuous education.

Description:

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.

Join Our 1 East Medical Unit at JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute:

JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute, ranked among the nation’s top rehabilitation hospitals by U.S. News & World Report, is seeking dedicated professionals to join our Medical Unit, an acute inpatient program providing comprehensive care for adults recovering from comprehensive pulmonary, orthopedic, neurologic, and/or cardiac conditions. Our unit uses an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to support patients and their families. At the heart of our care is exceptional rehabilitation nursing, ensuring that patients’ medical and functional needs are met with expertise and compassion.

Our nurses work closely with the team to manage complex conditions, deliver personalized care, and promote recovery. In addition to nursing, the unit offers intensive rehabilitation services, including physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, recreational therapy, social work, dieticians and rehabilitation medicine. Patients admitted to the unit are medically stable and ready to engage in a personalized plan designed to restore function and independence.

If you’re passionate about making a difference in the lives of others and contributing to an exceptional standard of care, consider joining our dedicated team. Together, we can transform challenges into opportunities for recovery and success.

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

Responsibilties:

• 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.

• Plan

• 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…