Registered Nurse - Med Surg, Pavilion 7

Cooper University Hospital•Camden, NJ

About The Position

The Registered RN is a professional caregiver 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. 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. Applies Cooper core values. Other duties as required. Pavilion 7 is a medical-surgical unit that has a specialty focus on both orthopedic and neurological diagnoses. This 30-bed unit features 8 beds designed for our stroke population as part of Cooper University’s Comprehensive Stroke Center, as well as 3 EMU beds for seizure monitoring. Telemetry monitoring is available in 10 of the unit beds when needed. The nursing staff provides caring, individualized attention to all patients 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with collaborative interdisciplinary team members.

Requirements

Graduate of NLN accredited School of Nursing
Current NJ-RN License (Registered Nurse).
Current NJ-BLS Certification (Basic Life Support)
Certain specialties may require advanced certification (i.e. ACLS, NALS, PALS).

Responsibilities

assumes responsibility and accountability for a group of patients for a designated time frame
supervises and provides care to patients utilizing the nursing process including the therapeutic use of self
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.
Applies Cooper core values.
Other duties as required.