Job Description:

REGISTERED NURSE PRN - Trauma Step-Down Unit

Apply Job ID 58118 Job Type Per Diem Shift Day Specialty Trauma

Short Description

The Registered Nurse is a professional care-giver who, as a member of a multidisciplinary health care team, assumes responsibility and accountability for a group of patients for a designated time frame and who supervises and provides care to these patients utilizing the nursing process including the therapeutic use of self.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Follows established policies and procedures.


• Communicates openly with internal customers and supervisors


• Provides excellent customer service interfacing well with all levels of staff, management and physicians


• Evaluates patients, implements and documents nursing care


• Assists physicians during examinations and procedures


• Performs various patient tests and administers medications utilizing the nursing process


• Promotes patients' independence by establishing patient care goals and teaching patients and families to understand conditions, medications, and self-care skills

Special Requirements

Scheduled Days / Hours: Per Diem (as needed) day shift; 7:00am - 7:00pm, rotation to other shifts, if needed; including a rotational weekends and holidays schedule.

Education: Graduate of NLN accredited School of Nursing - Bachelor Degree preferred.

License/Certifications/Registration: Current NJ-RN License (Registered Nurse); Current American Heart Association BLS Certification (Basic Life Support for Health Care Providers); certain specialties may require advanced certification (i.e. ACLS, NALS, PALS)

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