Registered Nurse; RN - NICU

Position : Registered Nurse (RN) - NICU - Full Time Days\nDescription\nRN, NICU\nWelcome to Holy Name, a medical center where innovation is not just a goal — it's a commitment. Here, medical excellence thrives, allowing hope to reign supreme and leaving no room for fear. At our hospital, every patient is cared for with undivided attention — because healing every soul is our sole focus.\nHoly Name is New Jersey's only independent Catholic health system, comprising a 361-bed acute care hospital, a renowned cancer center, a state-of-the-art fitness center, a residential hospice, a prestigious nursing school, and an extensive physician network. Healing at Holy Name goes beyond medicine and technology – it is infused with faith, conviction, compassion, and a commitment to educating the next generation of healthcare professionals through a variety of residency and educational programs.\n\nOur mission to provide care for the body, mind, and soul spans education, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, and overall wellness. This is at the core of who we are and what we do, and we've done it this way across generations, every single day, for nearly 100 years. Every innovation, medical breakthrough, and groundbreaking treatment is powered by some of the best minds in medicine, ensuring nothing is left on the table or the road to recovery.\nA Brief Overview\nResponsible for assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of direct care to assigned neonatal patients with complex health care needs in inpatient areas. Works in an environment requiring continual response to dynamic patient acuity changes with rapidly changing nursing care responsibilities. NICU RNs provide direct and individualized nursing care to patients based on the application of scientific nursing principles.\nWhat You Will Do\n

• Attends high-risk deliveries\n
• Cares for infants transitioning to extra uterine life\n
• Provides age and culturally appropriate care to patient\n
• Consults and coordinates with health care team members to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care plans\n
• Provides nutritional assessment & specialized feedings\n
• Changes dressings, inserts catheters, starts IVs\n
• Provides arterial & intravenous therapy\n
• Monitors and adjusts specialized equipment used on patients, such as incubators and ventilators, monitors, and other life-sustaining treatment\n
• Prepares and administers and records prescribed medications. Reports adverse reactions to medications or treatments\n
• Monitors vital signs and initiates corrective action whenever the patient displays adverse symptomatology, communicates patient's condition to care team\n
• Assists treating physician during examination, treatment and procedures, which can include life-saving situations\n
• Instructs and educates patient's family\n
• Participates in discharge planning\n
• Records all care information concisely, accurately and completely, in a timely manner, in the appropriate format and on the appropriate forms\n
• Performs other position-related duties as assigned, depending on assignment setting\n
• Float among pediatric and newborn clinical services, where qualified and competent\n
• Delivers patient care in accordance with the ANA Scope and Standards of Care and Practice, Patient Bill of Rights and the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses.\n
• Delivers patient care in accordance with specialty specific standards (e.g. Oncology Nurses Association, American Association of Critical Care Nurses) as appropriate\n
• Assesses, plans, implements and evaluates the patient plan of care according to changing health care needs.\n
• Assesses, plans, implements and evaluates patient teaching using appropriate education resources and evaluates the effectiveness of the teaching.\n
• Models effective leadership skill through role modeling, mentoring and effective communication. Assumes charge nurse responsibilities as assigned.\n
• Directly delegates and supervises the practice of ancillary staff (LPN's, PCA's, Tech's, Unit Secretaries, etc.) and is knowledgeable of the tenets of the NJ Scope of Practice guidelines.\n
• Supports a professional practice environment by functioning as a role model and resource person and also functions as a preceptor for nursing staff and participates in the orientation of other unit employees.\n
• Participat…