Registered Nurse - Med/Surg - Diabetic - P/T with Benefits - Day

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. Responsibilities include assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation, collecting comprehensive data pertinent to the patient's health or the situation, and performing age and disease specific assessment/data collection independently in a systematic manner.

It involves medication administration utilizing the newest advancements in bar-scanning technology and documentation ensuring the safest delivery of medications, multi-disciplinary discharging of patients, and evaluating progress toward attainment of outcomes.