Registered Nurse- Multiple Sclerosis- Physician - Neptune City, United States - Hackensack Meridian Health
Description
Overview:
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.
Together, we keep getting better - advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change.
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.Responsibilities:
A day in the life of a
_Registered Nurse__ _at Hackensack Meridian Health 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.
Plan
- 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.
Implementation
- 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 patient'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' needs, advocates appropriately and demonstrates evidencebased nursing practice and compliance with standards.
- Performs continuous PointofCare electronic documentation of each individual patient's assessments, planofcare, interventions and evaluation of rendered care.
- Medication administration utilizing the newest advancements in barscanning and documentation technologies designed to ensure the safest delivery of medications to our patients.
- Multidisciplinary discharging of patients to ensure safe transitioning and continuum of care.
Evaluation
- 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.
Additional 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.
- Other duties and/or projects as assigned.
Qualifications:
Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:
- A minimum of an associate in Nursing or diploma of Nursing degree.
- BSN in progress and/or willing to acquire within three (3) years of hire. (Note this applies to team members hired on or after November *P4567U applies to team members hired after 6/1/2021. **CC456U, CC689U, CC891U per CC Union Contract
- All staff Registered Nurses (RN) are required to have a BSN within five years of hire.
Note:
Advanced masters degree in nursing programs satisfy the BSN requirement (ie Associates to MSN).
- Must have six (6) or more months of relevant nursing experience OR must be an active participant with Hackensack Meridian Health's Nurse Residency Program.
- The ability to learn quickly and adapt to ch
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