Regisitered Nurse
2 weeks ago
Pennington NJ United States
Capital Health (US)
Full time
Job DescriptionWork ShiftDay (United States of America)
Capital Health is the region's leader in providing progressive, quality patient care with significant investments in our exceptional physicians, nurses and staff, as well as advance technology. Capital Health is a five-time Magnet-Recognized health system for nursing excellence and is comprised of 2 hospitals. Capital Health Medical Group is made up of more than 250 physicians and other providers who offer primary and specialty care, as well as hospital-based services, to patients throughout the region.
Position Overview
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Delivers quality care to patients through a team effort in working with others through the nursing process of assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation.
- Assures patient safety by executing appropriate policies & procedures.
- Provides appropriate support for pain management, pharmacological and non-pharmacological measures. Assist patient/family in identifying individualized comfort measures.
- Follows up on internal resources to determine the outcome of interventions completed by other departments.
- Mobilizes resources in complex cases to maximize patients control and participation over his/her own recovery.
- Provides information and interpretation of the patient's condition and offers coping mechanisms. Provides these to both patient and family.
- Assesses how much information a patient wants and needs while utilizing a vocabulary and approach that enables the patient to successfully process the care and course of treatment.
- Formulates and documents a discharge plan that maximizes the patient's ability to continue with meaningful life activities.
- Integrates assessment and diagnostic information with intuition to foresee potential age-specific healthcare needs. Anticipates patients needs.
- Ensures handoff communication and includes a report in terms of the situations most likely to develop and the problems awaiting patient.
- Identifies proactively issues to be resolved related to patient education for medication management. Provide discharge planning which includes instructions on discharge medications.
- Uses discretionary judgment to appropriately modify patient care regimens. Facilitates appropriate response from other health care team members to provide quality and safe care.
- Explores multiple aspects of care regimen with case manager and health care providers to promote appropriate resolution.
- Displays ability to see the entire unit and is self motivated to develop a plan for adjusting staffing patterns as needed. Attends educational sessions when offered in areas that will improve one's ability to assess the needs on one's respective department. These would include, but, not limited to: charge nurse workshops, leadership training, critical decision making, prioritization of workload, etc.
- Plans and provides unique and individualized comfort measures while utilizing intuitive and innovative approaches which are scientifically sound and are a result of evidenced based practice.
- Participates in unit based and/or hospital based committees.
- Participates in performance improvement activities at the unit and/or hospital wide level.
- Participates actively in the preparation of Joint Commission readiness.
- Participates in unit level effort to achieve successful Patient Satisfaction scores and has an awareness of the HCAAPS measurements.
- Performs any other related duties as required or assigned
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Regisitered Nurse
2 weeks ago
Pennington, United States Capital Health (US) Full timeJob DescriptionWork ShiftDay (United States of America)Capital Health is the region's leader in providing progressive, quality patient care with significant investments in our exceptional physicians, nurses and staff, as well as advance technology. Capital Health is a five-time Magnet-Recognized health system for nursing excellence and is comprised of 2...
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Regisitered Nurse
2 months ago
Pennington, United States Capital Health (US) Full timeJob DescriptionWork ShiftDay (United States of America)Capital Health is the region's leader in providing progressive, quality patient care with significant investments in our exceptional physicians, nurses and staff, as well as advance technology. Capital Health is a five-time Magnet-Recognized health system for nursing excellence and is comprised of 2...
