About This Role
This night-shift post on the cardiac ward pairs patient care with mentoring new nurses. Caring for patients in a variety of age groups, their family members, and the community is the core of this nursing role, performed in accordance with licensure, certification, training, and regulatory requirements.
Responsibilities
- Perform varied patient care tasks and functions
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Nursing
- Current/valid State of New Jersey license (or legal permission to work from the New Jersey Board of Nursing)
- CPR certifications
- Computer and keyboard skills
- Medical terminology
- Full range of body motion including physically assisting patients, requiring stretching, bending, lifting, sitting, kneeling, stooping, standing, walking, pushing and pulling
- Manual and finger dexterity and hand-eye coordination
- Constant talking and listening in English
- Effective oral and written communication skills, including speech clarity
- Understanding the information relayed
- Deductive and inductive reasoning skills (the ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense and the ability to combine pieces of information to/from general rules or conclusion respectively)
- Considerable walking, standing, sitting, reaching, filing, typing and photocopying
- Ability to perform work accurately and pay attention to details, often changing from one task to another without loss of efficiency or composure
- Ability to function competently in stressful situations and changing work environment related to changing needs of patients with acute, chronic and complex and/or terminal disease processes
- Ability to work cooperatively within health system, multidisciplinary team members (i.e. MD's, Rehab, Respiratory, DI, Laboratory, etc.)
- Ability to utilize effective time management skills to set priorities to perform responsibilities, problem solve and deliver care
Benefits
- Sign-on bonus
- Medical/Prescription, Dental & Vision Discount Program (Full Time/Part Time Employees)
- Group Term Life Insurance and AD&D (Full Time Employees)
- Flexible Spending Accounts and Commuter Benefit Plans
- Supplemental Voluntary Benefits (e.g. Short-term and Long-term Disability, Whole Life Insurance, Legal Support, etc.)
- 6 Paid Holidays
- Paid Time Off (varies)
- Wellness Time Off
- Extended Illness Retirement Plan
- Tuition Assistance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Valley Health Life Styles Fitness Center Membership Discount