Registered Nurse, Full Time, Days - AMG Internal Med - Morristown

Atlantic Health; Morristown (NJ); On-site; USD 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Atlantic Health in Morristown, NJ is seeking an Ambulatory Registered Nurse to apply the nursing process for patient assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation, while ensuring safety, privacy, and timely responses.

You will collaborate with care teams, document in Epic, support quality improvement, and mentor others, embracing PRIDE values and evidence-based practice to improve patient outcomes.

Qualifications

Responsibilities

• Applies nursing process to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care across care settings.
• Coordinates and completes patient assessment and re-assessment to impact outcomes.
• Assesses learning barriers and coordinates patient/family teaching.
• Responds to patients and families in a courteous, timely manner.
• Respects privacy and confidentiality per HIPAA; supports PRIDE values and care gaps closure.
• Manages in-basket tasks; coordinates pharmacy contacts and lab results per acuity.
• Recognizes emergencies and clarifies physician orders; maintains a safe environment.
• Documents in Epic; ensures accuracy of order entry and transcription.
• Triages patient messages and schedules appointments as needed.
• Participates in practice huddles and collaborates to resolve issues.
• Follows standard precautions and safety goals; promotes evidence-based care.
• Engages in governance to support patient-focused care and team collaboration.
• Ensures proper documentation of patient responses and condition changes.
• Pursues ongoing learning to enhance clinical competency.
• Monitors quality dashboards for assigned clinicians/practices.
• Performs other duties as needed within the practice's scope.
• Supports strategic goals of Atlantic Visiting Nurse and system.
• Models Atlantic Health PRIDE values in practice.

Job description

Registered Nurse, Ambulatory, uses the nursing process to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care. Manages patient teaching, communication, triage, and documentation in Epic. Ensures patient safety, privacy, and timely response to clinical needs. Collaborates with the care team, supports quality improvement, promotes evidence-based practice, and upholds PRIDE values and organizational goals.

Job Responsibilities / Essential Functions:

• Utilizes the nursing process effectively (assessing the patient and situation, identifying the problem, planning, implementing, and evaluating care through the health care continuum).
• Consistently demonstrates competent clinical skills. Coordinates and completes patient assessment and re-assessment to positively impact on quality outcomes.
• Assesses barriers to learning and functional status of patient. Coordinates, evaluates, and completes patient/family teaching.
• Consistently responds to patients/families in a courteous, positive, and timely manner.
• Consistently respects the patients right to privacy and dignity. Consistently respects the patients’ rights to confidentiality according to HIPAA guidelines. Fosters a positive and pleasant environment, which promotes our shared PRIDE values. Promotes better patient outcomes by reviewing open gaps of care and coordinating closure of care gaps. Interacts directly with patients and team members, documents in Epic as appropriate. Facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Responsible for in basket management. Assists with pharmacy contact, medication ordering and renewal. Reviews and appropriately disseminates labs based on acuity. Reviews and appropriately responds to patient messages, in collaboration with clinician(s).
• Recognizes emergency situations and acts appropriately. Clarifies physician orders as indicated. Maintains a safe environment for team members and patients/visitors: physical, psychological, and environmental. Utilizes the HRO safety principles.
• Reports all injuries (patient or staff) using event reporting system.

• Demonstrates knowledge of medication and vaccine administration according to policy, carries out physician orders in an accurate and timely manner. Monitors effects of medications and reports adverse effects in a timely manner.
• Demonstrates knowledge of policies and procedures, including but not limited to knowledge and skill of emergency equipment and procedures. Identifies and reports all risk management issues in a timely manner.
• Responsible for phone management of patients. Triages phone calls utilizing critical thinking and assessment skills to evaluate the chief complaint and urgency of the problem. Triages phone calls to determine acuity to assist in scheduling appointments. Provides comprehensive medical record documentation. Documents all communications and maintains patient confidentiality.
• Participates in and/or organizes regular practice huddles, communicates effectively with team members and physicians; actively listens and seeks feedback. Collaborates with team members to solve problems and resolve conflicts. Functions as a resource/mentor and provides support to team members to resolve patient care and team concerns/issues.
• Utilizes standard precautions including, appropriate isolation techniques. Consistently follows the Ambulatory Health Care National Patient Safety Goals.
• Through the model of Shared Governance, collaborates with all members of the health care team with a focus on promoting evidence-based care within a healing culture for the patient population served and their families.
• Demonstrates knowledge of documentation guidelines. Documents patient’s response to the ordered treatment protocol. Reports changes in a patient condition to the clinician immediately. Consistently collects and completes all required documentation. Verifies accuracy of order entry and transcription. Maintains competency in use of all needed information systems. Able to communicate effectively verbally and electronically.
• Pursues and participates in formal and independent learning activities to enhance knowledge, clinical competency, and professional development.
• Monitors quality dashboards for assigned clinicians/practice.
• Performs other duties per operational needs of the assigned clinical practice area and within the scope of RN license.
• Supports the overall strategic goals of the clinical practice care area, AMG, the AHS hospital sites, Atlantic Visiting Nurse, and the system.
• Exemplifies and fosters the AHS P.R.I.D.E. values in their clinical practice: Purpose, Respect, Innovation, Diversity, and Inclusion, and Extraordinary Caring.