Registered Nurse - Mental Health Inpatient Unit - P/T with Benefits Days
Borough of Neptune City, New Jersey
- Eligibility
- RNPsychiatric Nursing
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Posted Sep 11
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- workplace excellence
- collaborative work environment
- work-life balance
- compassionate nursing culture
- mentoring programs
- substantial tuition reimbursement
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About this role
Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives — and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community. Together, we keep getting better - advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change.
Jersey Shore's Inpatient Psychiatric Unit provides treatment for adults who voluntarily seek treatment for acute exacerbation of a mental illness and who require inpatient treatment for stabilization and safety. The unit is designed to keep patients in the area, near families, friends, and other support systems throughout their treatment. Our unit offers:
- Medication management
- Individual therapy
- Group therapy
- Family therapy
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Our licensed 30-bed facility is staffed by a multi-disciplinary team of psychiatrists, physician specialists, psychiatric registered nurses, psychiatric social workers, occupational therapists, psychologists, substance abuse staff, and other medical personnel. The unit's philosophy is that, "Rapid, short-term intervention can often prevent long-term problems from developing." The average length of stay is about eight days.
A day in the life of a Registered Nurse at Hackensack Meridian Health includes:
- 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.
- Ongoing communication with patients, nursing colleagues and other members of the health care team regarding patient’s status, rendered care and treatment plans.
- Medication administration utilizing the newest advancements in bar-scanning and documentation technologies designed to ensure the safest delivery of medications to our patients.
- Ongoing Point-of-Care electronic documentation of each individual patient’s assessments, plan-of-care, interventions and evaluation of rendered care.
- Patient and family centered education aimed at optimizing health, wellness and disease management.
- Multi-disciplinary discharging of patients to ensure safe transitioning and continuum of care.
Sourced from Hackensack Meridian Health’s careers page.
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Psychiatric is open from year one. Behavioral health spans inpatient, emergency, and community settings.
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