Registered Nurse, Ambulatory - Atlantic Health System
Morristown, NJ
About the Job
Principal Accountabilities:
1. Promotes and restores patient's health by completing the nursing process; collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary team members; providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families; and supervising assigned team members.
2. Identifies patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a position to understand care requirements.
3. Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.
4. Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals; teaching patient, friends, and family to understand the condition, medications, and self-care skills; and answering questions.
5. Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments; and following hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations.
6. Resolves patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.
7. Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations; and calling for assistance from health care support personnel.
8. Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols; medication administration and storage procedures; and controlled substance regulations.
9. Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.
10. Maintains continuity among nursing teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs.
11. Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential
12. Ensures operation of equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements; following manufacturer's instructions; troubleshooting malfunctions; calling for repairs; maintaining equipment inventories; and evaluating new equipment and techniques.
13. Maintains nursing supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed supplies; placing and expediting orders for supplies; verifying receipt of supplies; and using equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish job results.
14. Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops and participating in professional societies.
15. Maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information and participating in team problem-solving methods.
16. Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
17. Other duties as assigned
Qualifications for Internal Candidates |
Required:
1. BSN required.
2. Acute care experience
3. BLS, ACLS required
4. Specialty knowledge, skills, and abilities may be required based on department/specialty group assigned
5. Prior Ambulatory Surgery OR Medical/Surgical experience is required.
Preferred:
1. Capable of working in a fast- paced environment while maintaining aseptic technique and providing excellent safe patient care.
2. Experience is a physician practice setting is a plus; primary care experience preferred.
3. EPIC experience a plus.
- Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ
- Overlook Medical Center, Summit NJ
- Newton Medical Center, Newton, NJ
- Chilton Medical Center, Pompton Plains, NJ
- Hackettstown Medical Center, Hackettstown, NJ
- Goryeb Children's Hospital, Morriston NJ
- Atlantic Rehabilitation
- Atlantic Home Care and Hospice
We also have more than 900 community-based healthcare providers affiliated through Atlantic Medical Group. We are part of Atlantic Accountable Care Organization, one of the largest ACOs in the nation, and are a member of AllSpire Health Partners.
We receiver awards and recognitions for what we provide to our patients, team members and communities. Below are just a few of our accolades:
- 100 Best Companies to Work For ® and FORTUNE® magazine (13 years in a row)
- Best Places to Work in Healthcare - Modern Healthcare
- 150 Top Places to work in Healthcare - Becker's Healthcare
- 100 Accountable Care Organizations to Know - Becker's Hospital Review
- Best Employers for Workers over 50 - AARP
- Gold-Level \"Well Workplace\": Wellness Council of America (WELCOA)
- CEO Cancer Gold Standard ™
- One of the 100 Best Workplaces for Millennials\" Great Place to Work® and FORTUNE® magazine
- One of the 20 Best Workplaces in Health Care: Great Place to Work® and FORTUNE® magazine
- Security 500: Security Magazine
- Official Health Care Partner of the New York Jets
- NJ Sustainable Business