Registered Nurse Emeritus

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Job Description

Summary
The Registered Nurse Emeritus improves clinical practice through mentorship and coaching while coordinating with an assigned nurse during the provision of direct patient care. The nurse demonstrates advanced skills and expertise to the nurses and other members of the health care delivery team. The nurse complies with standards of regulatory and accreditation bodies.

Job Duties

• Interacts with co-workers visitors and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson.
• Mentors and coaches peer RN using their advanced skills and expertise while supporting the RN in their role.
• Assists with Assessing planning implementing evaluating and if necessary delegating patient care for a specified group of patients.
• Collaborates with physicians medical professionals and other staff to ensure the quality of care.
• Provides collaboration for care for the neonate pediatric adolescent adult or geriatric patient.
• Utilizes knowledge of the principles of growth and development appropriate to the patients age to ensure that care provided meets the unique physical and psychosocial needs of the patient.
• Advises when needed Involves appropriate parties (i.e. patients family or guardian outside agencies) in the assessment treatment and continuing care of the patient as needed.
• The Emeritus Nurse with leadership experience will mentor new nurse leaders. Emeritus Nurses mentoring in nursing leadership and management can be described simply as leaders developing leaders.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree with successful completion of a nursing program from an accredited school of nursing.
• Effective Communications Understanding of effective communication concepts tools and techniques ability to effectively transmit receive and accurately interpret ideas information and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
• Patient Assessment and Care Knowledge of and ability to assess ailments and injuries of patients and implement a treatment plan.
• Patient and Care Giver Education Knowledge of child and adult education techniques and the ability to educate patients and their care givers on the patients condition the treatment and medications suggested and given and the next steps in the patients recovery.
• Medication Administration and Prescription- Knowledge of various medications used to treat patients ability to apply this knowledge to the administration of medications and to the prescription of drugs for continuing treatment outside of the hospital.
• Discharge Planning Knowledge of the patients post-discharge needs and the ability to consider these needs in planning for discharge and arranging for follow-up care.
• Assessment and Diagnosis Knowledge of various tools and techniques for patient assessment and diagnosis ability to explore and analyze reasons behind symptoms and generate resolutions according to available drugs facilities and techniques.
• Health Information Documentation Support the nurse to document relevant health information and appropriate documentation methods ability to record medical histories symptoms vital signs medications diagnoses treatment plans procedures tests and medical results in written or electronic form.
• BLS - Basic Life Support AHA - American Heart Association or Red Cross
• RN - Licensed Registered NurseNJ - State of New Jersey

Additional Qualifications

This position is for retired nurses and requires at least 5 years RN experience required.

Physical Demands
Lift and carry 40-50 lbs. Examples: Push/pull patients on bed stretcher (requires 29 lbs. push force) lateral transfers up to 50 lbs. of the patients weight. Frequent to continuous standing/walking. Patient transporters can walk 8-10 miles per shift. *Patient care providers may be required to perform activities specific to their role including kneeling bending squatting and performing CPR.

Job Description Disclaimer: This position description provides the major duties/responsibilities requirements and working conditions for the position. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current position however management reserves the right to revise or change as necessary to meet organizational needs. Other responsibilities may be assigned when circumstances require.

Salary Range

The actual hiring rate will be determined based on candidate experience skills and qualifications. This position is not eligible for an annual incentive.

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Nationally ranked Jefferson which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65000 people strong dedicated to providing the highest-quality compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrows professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College Jefferson College of Nursing and the Kanbar College of Design Engineering and Commerce dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200 undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8300 students. Jefferson Health nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age race color religion creed sexual orientation gender gender identity marital status pregnancy national origin ancestry citizenship military status veteran status handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.

Benefits

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues including medical (including prescription) supplemental insurance dental vision life and AD&D insurance short- and long-term disability flexible spending accounts retirement plans tuition assistance as well as voluntary benefits which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues including those who work less than part-time(including per diemcolleagues adjunct faculty and Jeff Temps) have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.