Cooper University Health Care

The facility features 30 operating rooms and performs over 70 surgeries each day, indicating a high-volume, fast-paced clinical environment. Cooper employs nurses across a range of units including medical-surgical with telemetry capabilities, a 36-bed unit with an embedded 12-bed Intermediate Care Unit (INCU), and operating room services. The organization emphasizes multidisciplinary team-based care and the nursing process as core to patient care delivery. Nursing roles at Cooper involve assuming responsibility and accountability for patient groups during designated timeframes, with responsibilities including patient evaluation, nursing care implementation and documentation, medication administration, assisting physicians during examinations and procedures, and promoting patient independence through education. The INCU specifically employs critically care-trained RNs who manage ventilated patients, suggesting opportunities for nurses to work in specialized, high-acuity settings. The presence of both adult Level I and pediatric Level II trauma designations makes Cooper a unique clinical environment in the South Jersey region.

Job descriptions emphasize professional caregiving within a multidisciplinary health care team, the nursing process including therapeutic use of self, and promoting patient independence through education and self-care skills.