Registered Nurse, Ambulatory-Per-Diem-Pulmonary Sleep/Medicine
Primary location: Summit,NJ
Schedule: Per Diem
Type: Nursing
Shift: Varies
Job ID: 8650
Responsible for establishing, ensuring and supervising the office staff as well as procedures to maintain quality services and efficient operations.
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
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.
About US
Atlantic Medical Group is a physician-led and physician-governed organization that delivers the highest quality health care, at the right place, the right price, and the right time. We are a multispecialty physician group with more than 1,000 doctors, nurse practitioners and physician assistants at over 300 locations throughout northern and central New Jersey and northeast Pennsylvania. Our mission is to deliver exceptional care recognizing the unique needs of all those we serve. Our vision is to achieve the best outcomes with our patients at the center of the physician-led team, driven by service, innovation and continuous learning.
Our integrated network offers seamless access to Atlantic Health System’s entire health care continuum and our nationally and regionally ranked hospitals. In collaboration with Atlantic Health System, several of our practices offer urgent care and walk-in services.
In addition to primary care physicians, the team includes specialists that care for patients in all aspects of their health from pediatrics to geriatrics and everything in between. We make health decisions easier for patients with enhanced access to referrals.
EEO STATEMENT
Atlantic Health System, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and federal contractor or subcontractor and therefore abides by applicable laws to protect applicants and employees from discrimination in hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral, and other aspects of employment, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), national origin, citizenship status, disability, age, genetics, or veteran status.
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