Registered Nurse-Labor and Delivery- P/T with Benefits Days

This position effectively coordinates patient care/unit activities among nursing peers, physicians and support services. A Registered Nurse at Hackensack Meridian Health involves the delivery of nursing practices according to the most up-to-date evidence-based research, nursing policies, and standards of care, to provide and ensure safe and excellent delivery of individualized patient care. A day in the life of a Registered Nurse includes: - Collects comprehensive data pertinent to the patient's health or the 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 plan of care which is patient/family focused, 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 patients's status, rendered care and treatment plans. - Implements age and disease specific care in an organized and timely manner. - Provides or coordinates the 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's 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 the newest advancements in 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.

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Responsibilities

• Identifies ethical issues in the practice setting and brings them to the attention of other team members. - Recognizes and responds to opportunities to enhance patient satisfaction. - Must acquire and maintain competencies, certifications and continuing education in order to meet any facility accreditation or individual licensing requirements. - Adheres to American Nurses Association Code for Nurses with Interpretive Statements. - Lifts a minimum of 35 lbs., pushes and pulls a minimum of 10 lbs. and stands a minimum of 6 hours a day. - Adheres to HMH's Organizational and Managerial competencies and standards of behavior.