ER Registered Nurse: Fast-Paced, Impactful Care

Capital Health (US); Pennington (NJ); On-site; USD 45,000 - 63,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Plan

Prescription drug coverage

Dental Plan

Vision Plan

FSA

Retirement Savings Plan

Paid Time-Off

Job summary

Capital Health in Pennington, NJ seeks an RN to deliver quality patient care within a collaborative team. The role involves applying the nursing process from assessment through evaluation, ensuring safety, and supporting pain management and patient comfort strategies.

Responsibilities include discharge planning, effective handoffs, patient education, and active participation in performance improvement and Joint Commission readiness.

Responsibilities

• Delivers quality care to patients through a team effort in working with others through the nursing process of assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation.
• Assures patient safety by executing appropriate policies & procedures.
• Provides appropriate support for pain management, pharmacological and non-pharmacological measures. Assist patient/family in identifying individualized comfort measures.
• Mobilizes resources in complex cases to maximize patients control and participation over his/her own recovery.
• Provides information and interpretation of the patient's condition and offers coping mechanisms. Provides these to both patient and family.
• Assesses how much information a patient wants and needs while utilizing a vocabulary and approach that enables the patient to successfully process the care and course of treatment.
• Formulates and documents a discharge plan that maximizes the patient's ability to continue with meaningful life activities.
• Integrates assessment and diagnostic information with intuition to foresee potential age-specific healthcare needs. Anticipates patients needs.
• Ensures handoff communication and includes a report in terms of the situations most likely to develop and the problems awaiting patient.
• Identifies proactively issues to be resolved related to patient education for medication management. Provide discharge planning which includes instructions on discharge medications.
• Uses discretionary judgment to appropriately modify patient care regimens. Facilitates appropriate response from other health care team members to provide quality and safe care.
• Explores multiple aspects of care regimen with case manager and health care providers to promote appropriate resolution.
• Displays ability to see the entire unit and is self motivated to develop a plan for adjusting staffing patterns as needed.
• Attends educational sessions when offered in areas that will improve one's ability to assess the needs on one's respective department.
• Plans and provides unique and individualized comfort measures while utilizing intuitive and innovative approaches which are scientifically sound and are a result of evidenced based practice.
• Participates in unit based and/or hospital based committees.
• Participates in performance improvement activities at the unit and/or hospital wide level.
• Participates actively in the preparation of Joint Commission readiness.
• Participates in unit level effort to achieve successful Patient Satisfaction scores and has an awareness of the HCAAPS measurements.
• Performs any other related duties as required or assigned

Job description

Capital Health in Pennington, NJ seeks an RN to deliver quality patient care within a collaborative team. The role involves applying the nursing process from assessment through evaluation, ensuring safety, and supporting pain management and patient comfort strategies.

Responsibilities include discharge planning, effective handoffs, patient education, and active participation in performance improvement and Joint Commission readiness.