Cooper University Hospital·Camden, New Jersey
The Registered Nurse provides professional care to infants in a level 3 neonatal intensive care unit as part of a multidisciplinary team. Responsibilities include supervising patients, utilizing the nursing process, and coordinating with physicians and ancillary staff.
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Short Description The Registered RN 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.
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.
Overview Cooper University’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is a 35-bed level 3 nursery.
This unit is set up in smaller pods which hold up to 4 infants, except for Transitional nursery which holds up to 12 infants.
These infants are often preparing for discharge.
We care for infants as young as 23 weeks gestation as well as infants requiring surgical interventions, respiratory support from nasal cannula up to and including high frequency ventilation and nitric oxide.
Cooper’s NICU has a Neonatal transport team that will go out and pick up infants requiring a higher level of care, from different hospitals throughout the South Jersey area.
Our NICU consists of all Registered RN’s, attending physicians, fellows, Neonatal Nurse Practitioners as well as Residents.
We also have a robust ancillary team including dedicated Respiratory Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Physical Therapists, Speech Therapists that address all the feeding issues of the individual infants.
We also have Unit secretaries and Child Life Personal.
Experience required 1 year minimum as registered nurse experience in pediatric critical care, nicu or similar units is required.
Education Requirements Graduate of NLN accredited School of Nursing License/Certification Requirements 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) Special Requirements Full time, 7am-7pm, rotating nights and weekends.
Salary Min ($) USD $48.72 Salary Max ($) USD $73.64
Candidates must be a graduate of an NLN accredited School of Nursing with a current NJ-RN license and BLS certification. A minimum of one year of experience in pediatric critical care, NICU, or similar units is required.
Market context
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