Registered Nurse - Med Surg - Telemetry, Kelemen 8 North
Camden, New Jersey
RN
Posted Jul 23
- Shift
- 8-hour
- Unit
- Med-Surg
What the listing says
Role
- Schedule
- 8-hour
- Term
- Permanent
- Setting
- Hospital
- Accepts
- RN
Ratio not posted. Ask in the interview.
Pay
- Against the board
- $5/hr above the median
The median for Medical-Surgical in New Jersey is $56/hr, across 23 postings.
About this role
The Registered RN is a professional caregiver who, as a member of a multidisciplinary health care team, assumes responsibility and accountability for a group of patients for a designated time frame and who supervises and provides care to these patients utilizing the nursing process including the therapeutic use of self. Kelemen 8 is a medical-surgical unit that cares for patients with a wide variety of diagnoses, illnesses and disease processes. North and South 8 have telemetry capabilities for our patients.
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Requirements
- RN
- NJ-RN
- Graduate of NLN accredited School of Nursing
- Current NJ-RN License (Registered Nurse)
- Current American Heart Association BLS Certification (Basic Life Support for Health Care Providers)
- Certain specialties may require advanced certification (i.e., ACLS, NALS, PALS)
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Retirement
- Professional development
Place
- City
- Camden, New Jersey
- Median rent
- $1,226/mo
- Local household income
- $40,546/yr
- Metro price level
- 3% above the national average
- CMS overall rating
- 2 of 5 stars (Care Compare, Sep 2026)
- Beds
- 578
- RN residency
- ANCC-accredited: Cooper University Health Care NRP at Cooper University Health Care, through Jan 2030
rent and tenant-paid utilities · Census ACS 2024
all local households, not nurse pay · Census ACS 2024
Camden area index 102.6, where 100 is the national average.
Just across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Camden offers nurses an affordable New Jersey home base with easy access to big-city amenities. The revitalized Camden Waterfront and nearby Cooper Grant neighborhood highlight ongoing reinvestment in this historically working-class city.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 metro Regional Price Parities · Census ACS 2024.
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You are looking at Cooper University Hospital in Camden—an academic health system that has been on this ground since 1887, with a stated mission to serve, to heal, to educate. On the units you will meet real acuity: a 35-bed…
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Med surg is open from year one. A broad first base while you learn which path pulls harder.
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