Registered Nurse Preop/PACU, PRN

Hackensack Meridian Health; Hackensack (NJ); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Hackensack Meridian Health is seeking a Staff Nurse at the Hackensack Musculoskeletal Surgery Center in Hackensack, NJ. The role emphasizes patient advocacy, ongoing assessment, plan-of-care development, and collaboration with the multidisciplinary team.

The nurse will provide care to adult, pediatric, adolescent, and geriatric patients, maintain CPR/ACLS certification, and participate in mandatory trainings while ensuring documentation accuracy in patient records.

Qualifications

• Experience in patient advocacy
• Ability to collaborate with the healthcare team
• Strong assessment and care planning skills

Responsibilities

• Performs assessment/data collection in an ongoing and systematic manner, focusing on physiologic, psychological and cognitive status
• Formulates a goal directed plan of care, prioritized by nursing diagnosis and patient outcomes
• Implements care in a skilled, consistent manner to achieve desired patient outcomes
• Establishes priorities of patient care based on needs and center resources
• Performs and documents actions following established protocols and in emergencies
• Maintains CPR/ACLS certification
• Participates in staff meetings and in-services
• Reviews physician orders and carries them out professionally

Skills

Patient advocacy

Care coordination

Team collaboration

Education

Registered nurse license

Nursing degree

Job description

Hackensack Musculoskeletal Surgery Center | NJHMSC
Hackensack, NJ 07601, USA

Description

To act as patient advocate, providing continuity of care designed to meet individual patient needs through collaboration with other members of the healthcare team and supporting the philosophy, objectives and goals of the facility. The Staff nurse will assess the needs of individual patients including but not limited to adult, pediatric, adolescent, and geriatric patients.

Minimum Qualifications

• Degree from accredited nursing program
• License as registered nurse in the state the facility is located
• Minimum of three years work experience as a staff nurse

Essential Functions

• Performs assessment/data collection in an ongoing and systematic manner, focusing on physiologic, psychological and cognitive status
• Formulates a goal directed plan of care, which is prioritized and based on determined nursing diagnosis and patient outcomes
• Implements care in a knowledgeable, skilled consistent manner in reaching the desired patient outcomes through nursing processes
• Establish priorities of patient care based on essential patient needs and available center resources of time, personnel, equipment and supplies
• Performs efficiently in emergency patient situations following established protocols, remaining calm, informing appropriate persons and documenting events
• Demonstrates applied knowledge base in areas of medical/surgical patient care, pain assessment and actions of pharmaceuticals and anesthetic agents, laboratory values, safety and legal issues and all emergency equipment
• Practices effective problem identification and resolution skills as a method of sound decision making
• Performs documentation duties on the floor and in the patient record, which is timely, accurate and concise
• Works as part of a team in delivering patient care
• Maintains CPR/ACLS certification
• Attends all mandatory in services and participates in staff meetings
• Remains flexible, adaptive and able to accept and implement new ideas and approaches
• Treats all patients equally adopting the centers Patient Rights policy
• Reviews and carries out physician orders in an appropriate professional manner
• Willingness to assist with other duties when asked

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is frequently required to sit, converse, and listen; use hands to touch, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; and to reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.

The employee must be able to lift and/or carry over 20 pounds on a regular basis and be able to push/pull over 25 pounds on a regular basis.

The employee must be able to stand and/or walk at least 10 hours per day.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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