Registered Nurse Float - Rapid response team - F/T Nights
Hackensack University Medical Center
Hackensack, New Jersey
The Registered Nurse functions as a caregiver for a specific patient population in order to achieve desired outcomes. Hackensack University Medical Center is hiring for its own floors, with no agency in between.
Posted Sep 12
- Shift and hours
- Nights Registered Nurse Float - Rapid response team - F/T Nights
- Unit and setting
- Rapid response team · Hospital This position focuses on expanding knowledge and skills, provides effective direct care as part of the interdisciplinary team to a variety of complex patients.variety of complex patients
- License
- RN licenseRegistered Nurse license
- Term
- Permanent Registered Nurse Float - Rapid response team - F/T NightsFull-time
Do you qualify?
- License
- Registered Nurse license
What it pays
- Against similar roles
- In range for Hackensack staff RN rolesHackensack staff RN postings that state pay run $48/hr to $48/hr, the middle half $48/hr to $48/hr, across 68 postings.
- Tuition assistance
- substantial tuition reimbursement
Benefits
- Benefitsmentoring programsmentoring programs
- Benefitssubstantial tuition reimbursementsubstantial tuition reimbursement
- workplace excellence
- collaborative work environment
- work-life balance
- compassionate nursing culture
The role and schedule
- Floating
- float pool Registered Nurse Float - Rapid response team - F/T Nights
- Day to day
- directs and oversees care provided by other caregivers This position directs and oversees the care provided by other caregivers through delegation, validation, evaluation, and coordination.
- Day to day
- coordinates patient care and unit activities among nursing peers, physicians and support services This position effectively coordinates patient care/unit activities among nursing peers, physicians and support services.
- Day to day
- collects comprehensive data pertinent to patient health or situation Collects comprehensive data pertinent to the patient's health or the situation.
- Day to day
- performs age and disease specific assessment independently Performs age and disease specific assessment/data collection independently in a systematic manner focusing on physiologic, psychological and cognitive status.
- Day to day
- recognizes clinical and diagnostic status changes in patient status Recognizes clinical and diagnostic status changes in patient status.
- Day to day
- identifies variables in patient and family education needs Identifies variables in patient/family education needs based on age, disease, and culturally specific learning differences.
- Day to day
- develops a plan of care prescribing strategies and interventions Develops a plan of care that prescribes strategies and interventions to attain expected outcomes.
- Day to day
- utilizes critical thinking skills based on nursing knowledge Utilizes critical thinking skills based on nursing knowledge to achieve desired patient outcomes.
- Day to day
- adheres to organizational and managerial competencies and standards of behavior Adheres to HMH's Organizational and Managerial competencies and standards of behavior.
The workplace
You would step onto units where some coworkers talk about teamwork and putting patients first, and others talk about feeling unsupported. You would likely see 12-hour days; a travel listing here used that pattern, and system reviews talk about shift…
Your fit
Questions to ask
- Can you walk me through base pay range and differentials?
- What should I expect for weekly hours, weekend, holiday, call, and rotation?
- What orientation, preceptor time, and ongoing unit support are included?
- How are patient load and staffing support handled day to day?
Original listing
Posted on Hackensack University Medical Center’s careers page.
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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.
The Registered Nurse functions as a caregiver for a specific patient population in order to achieve desired outcomes. This position focuses on expanding knowledge and skills, provides effective direct care as part of the interdisciplinary team to a variety of complex patients. This position directs and oversees the care provided by other caregivers through delegation, validation, evaluation, and coordination.
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:
Assessment, Planning, Implementation and Evaluation Assessment
- 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.
- Utilizes critical thinking skills based on nursing knowledge to achieve desired patient outcomes.
- Adheres to HMH's Organizational and Managerial competencies and standards of behavior.
What's around it?
Hackensack, NJFrom Census ACS 2024.
Living costs about 9% above the US average
- Median rent
- $1,911/mo
- Household income
- $84,277/yr, all local households, not nurse pay