Licensed Practical Nurse, Full Time Days, 8a - 4pm, Morristown Medical Center

Atlantic Health/Morristown Medical Center  is seeking a full time LPN to work 0600-1830 caring for primarily cardiac patients in a fast-paced same day procedure, extended recovery and observation status unit.

Responsible for planning and managing patient care according to each individual's needs. Interviews patients and records medical history and physical conditions like blood pressure or temperature while obtaining vital signs. Provides basic medical and nursing care, ensures the comfort of patients by helping them bathe or dress, discusses health care with patients, and reports status of patients to registered nurses and doctors. 


Principal Accountabilities:
Records patient's vital signs such as respiration, temperature, blood pressure, and heart rate, and enters the data related to the record of patients in computer systems.

• Interviews patients and examines their medical history.
• Assists registered nurses and other superior nurses to develop best care plan for the patients and alks to the patients and their families about their treatment plan, tests, and diagnoses.
• Starts, Monitors or discontinues the intravenous catheters or the intravenous fluids 
• Aids in phlebotomy - analyzes patients, looks over the requisition form for requested tests, and sets equipment, patient and puncture sites. 
• Performs other related duties as assigned
   

Required:
1. High School Diploma or equivalent.
2. New Jersey LPN License Required.
3. Minimum 2 years of hospital- based experience as an LPN.

Preferred:
1. Experience working in relevant area preferred.

 

At Atlantic Health System, our promise to our communities is; Anyone who enters one of our facilities, will receive the highest quality care delivered at the right time, at the right place, and at the right cost. This commitment is also echoed in the respect, development and opportunities we give to our more than 20,000 team members. Headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey, we are one of the leading non-profit health care systems in the nation. Our facilities and sites of care include:

• Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ
• Overlook Medical Center, Summit, NJ
• Newton Medical Center, Newton, NJ
• Chilton Medical Center, Pompton Plains, NJ
• Hackettstown Medical Center, Hackettstown, NJ
• Goryeb Children's Hospital, Morristown, NJ
• CentraState Healthcare System, Freehold, NJ
• Atlantic Home Care and Hospice
• Atlantic Mobile Health
• Atlantic Rehabilitation

We also have more than 900 community-based healthcare providers affiliated through Atlantic Medical Group. Atlantic Accountable Care Organization is one of the largest ACOs in the nation, and we are a member of AllSpire Health Partners.

We have received awards and recognition for  the services we have provided to our patients, team members and communities. Below are just a few of our accolades:

• 100 Best Companies to Work For ® and FORTUNE® magazine for 15 years 
• Best Places to Work in Healthcare - Modern Healthcare
• 150 Top Places to work in Healthcare - Becker's Healthcare
• 100 Accountable Care Organizations to Know - Becker's Hospital Review
• Best Employers for Workers over 50 - AARP
• Gold-Level "Well Workplace": Wellness Council of America (WELCOA)
• One of the 100 Best Workplaces for “Millennials” Great Place to Work® and FORTUNE® magazine
• One of the 20 Best Workplaces in Health Care: Great Place to Work® and FORTUNE® magazine
• Official Health Care Partner of the New York Jets
• NJ Sustainable Business 

Morristown Medical Center is a nationally-recognized leader in cardiology and heart surgery, orthopedics, gynecology,  geriatrics, gastroenterology and GI surgery, pulmonology and lung surgery, and urology.

We are the only hospital in New Jersey named one of America's '50 Best Hospitals' for six consecutive years by Healthgrades and one of the World's Best Hospitals by Newsweek.  We were included on Becker's Healthcare 2020 list of "100 Great Hospitals in America". In addition, Leapfrog recognized us with an "A" hospital safety grade - its highest - twelve consecutive times, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services awarded us again with its highest five-start rating in 2020.

Morristown Medical Center is a Magnet Hospital for Excellence in Nursing Service, the highest level of recognition achievable from the American Nurses Credentialing Center for facilities that provide acute care services.  Our nonprofit hospital was also designated a Level I Regional Trauma Center by the American College of Surgeons and a Level II by the State of NJ.

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