Registered Nurse - South Orthopedics Night

Registered Nurse - 8 South Orthopedics - F/T - Night

Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, New Jersey

Requisition #: | Shift: Night | Status:
Full Time with Benefits

Hackensack Meridian Health nurses care for patients and their families at every stage of life, 24 hours a day, at bedsides in 9 community hospitals, 4 academic medical centers, a behavioral health hospital, 2 children's hospitals, 2 rehabilitation hospitals, medical offices, and care facilities across the state.

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. Competitively 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.

Hackensack Meridian Health is one of the most recognized health care networks in the country for nursing excellence with 7 Magnet designations. In joining our nursing team, you'll work with collaborative colleagues, who are pushing each other — and patient care — to keep getting better.

• Collaborative
• Courageous
• Compassionate
• Creative
• Connected

The Registered Nurse functions as a caregiver for a specific patient population to achieve desired outcomes. This senior role focuses on expanding knowledge and skills, provides effective direct care as part of the interdisciplinary team to a variety of complex patients, and directs and oversees 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.

• Collects comprehensive data pertinent to the patient's health or 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 patient/family-focused plan of care that is 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 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 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…