Registered Nurse, Cardiac Telemetry

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