Registered Nurse - Behaviorial Health Services (Unit A-F) - Full-Time Day Shift (20786)

Bergen New Bridge Medical Center•Paramus, NJ

About The Position

Bergen New Bridge Medical Center is seeking a Registered Nurse for its Behavioral Health Services units. The nurse provides age-appropriate assessment, treatment, and patient care, including identifying and documenting patient needs, planning and evaluating care, addressing educational, psychosocial, and discharge-planning needs, and making appropriate referrals. The role includes comprehensive direct and indirect patient care, patient and family teaching, collaboration with the health care team, accurate documentation, participation in interdisciplinary rounds and groups, and responding to hospital codes within assigned unit responsibilities. The nurse also follows infection-control, safety, quality, and departmental standards; supports patients’ orientation and rapport-building; participates in continuing education and unit meetings; and performs other duties as assigned. The position is a full-time day-shift role in a behavioral health service setting. Salary is $48.82–$69.09 per hour, commensurate with experience, with stated evening, night, and weekend differentials.

Requirements

Current New Jersey RN licensure.
BLS certification.
Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), or proof of enrollment in an accredited BSN program with completion expected within three years of the start date.
Clinical nursing skills appropriate for an experienced behavioral health RN.
Good oral and written communication skills.
Good interpersonal skills.
Ability to speak, read, and write English to the extent required by the position.
Ability to work semi-independently under the supervision of NM/ADNs.

Nice To Haves

One year of behavioral health experience, preferably focused on admissions, discharges, and group management related to depressive disorders and self-harm behaviors.

Responsibilities

Assess and document patients’ initial and ongoing nursing needs, identifying pertinent changes in their clinical condition.
Select, plan, evaluate, and document care based on patient assessments.
Assess and address patients’ educational, psychosocial, and discharge-planning needs, and initiate referrals as appropriate.
Provide comprehensive patient care and patient and family teaching.
Consult unit Nursing Leadership regarding significant changes in a patient’s condition.
Communicate relevant patient-care information during shift-to-shift reports and collaborate with members of the health care team.
Document patients’ responses to treatment and progress toward discharge goals in their charts.
Complete admissions, discharges, and group documentation in electronic medical records.
Seek clarification of unclear or inappropriate physician orders and notify physicians promptly when clinical changes warrant changes in management.
Participate in interdisciplinary patient-care rounds and present findings related to admissions, discharges, and disease-specific groups.
Apply infection-control and safety principles and follow departmental policies, quality-assurance, environmental, and infection-control standards.
Provide timely, professional, caring, and respectful customer service.
Orient patients to the environment and develop rapport with them.
Assist with data collection and analysis of group quality related to depressive disorders and self-harm reduction.
Use the hospital computer system in accordance with job responsibilities and hospital policy.
Assist other personnel as needed and provide patient care during emergencies or as assigned.
Keep current with trends relevant to the assignment and participate in continuing education and mandatory in-service programs.
Respond to hospital codes, including Team 20, Dr. Strong, RRT, and Code Blue, within assigned unit responsibilities.
Attend monthly unit meetings and perform other duties that support department and organizational objectives.