REGISTERED NURSE - Neuro ICU/Intermediate Care Details

REGISTERED NURSE - Neuro ICU/Intermediate Care

Cooper University Health Care - Camden, NJ

Employment Type : Full-Time

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

Scheduled Days / Hours: Full time night shift; 7:00pm - 7:00am, 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)

Scheduled Days / Hours: Full time night shift; 7:00pm - 7:00am, 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)