RN , Post Intensive Care Unit I

at  RWJBarnabas Health

Req #: 0000108807
Category: Nursing
Status: Part-Time
Shift: Night
Facility: RWJ New Brunswick
Department: Post Intensive Care Unit-I

LOCATION:

Main Hospital - New Brunswick, One Robert Wood Johnson Place, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
RWJBarnabas Health is seeking a highly dedicated Registered Nurse for our Post Intensive Care Unit I on 4 Tower at the New Brunswick campus.
Post Intensive Care Unit I on 4 Tower is a busy 32 bed cardiac unit. We see a range of telemetry, medical-surgical, and intermediate care patient acuities. Types of patients we care for include post cardiac procedures, sepsis, dialysis, heart failure and respiratory failure.

SCHEDULING REQUIREMENTS:

• Night Shift, 36 hours per week

• The Registered Nurse provides nursing care in the health care system within the scope of practice defined by the Nurse Practice Act and regulatory standards and assures awareness of ethical standards of practice as defined by the ANA code of ethics.
• The Registered Nurse assures safety in practice and is inclusive of the principles of evidence-based practice by maintaining a realization of own individual level of knowledge and experience and assumes responsibility for advancing knowledge of self and others of the patient care team by communication with and utilizing resource persons and programs available.
• The Registered Nurse is responsible for reporting identified safety issues such as hazardous environments (i.e. damaged floors/walls/ceiling tiles/unsecured areas) and medical errors.
• The Registered Nurse is responsible for knowledge of the patient population served.
• The Registered Nurse is responsible for supervising and directing the delegation of tasks to appropriate team members and collaborates with other patient care providers.
• The Registered Nurse is responsible for consistently setting and evaluating priorities through appropriate interventions with measurable outcomes toward improvement.
• The Registered Nurse is an individual practitioner and the interdisciplinary team manager, utilizes the nursing process to integrate all aspects of the provision of care and individualizes the plan of care to address a specific patient s needs.