Registered Nurse, Full-Time Days, Variable Shift, Endoscopy, Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center

Job Description

Job Function: Assessment: Appropriately admits patients following proper patient identification procedure. Performs patient assessment that is systemic, comprehensive and accurate with complete documentation. Assesses chart findings and physical status of each patient, reporting abnormal findings to the physicians. Assesses for needs of the patient and significant others/family. Explains to the patient and their family members the important processes they will need to know while they are a patient here. Identifies patients and/or families most in need of personal assistance, and/or helps in resolving issues with distressed customers.

Job Function: Diagnosis: Identifies patient needs and problems. Analyzes assessment data to determine relevant patient diagnosis.

Job Function: Planning and Implementation: Plans for the nursing care of patient utilizing ANA and SGNA Standards of Clinical Nursing Practice. Performs ongoing assessment as patient's condition warrants. Initiates collaboration with other health care team members to meet changing patient needs. Advocates for the patient. Integrates learning, cultural, and emotional needs of the patient and family in the plan of care. Integrates and implements nursing practice across the continuum of care. Maintains open lines of communication with personnel in all areas to maintain maximum efficiency while respecting the privacy and confidentiality of others.

Job Function: Evaluation: Evaluates effectiveness of intervention and revises Plan of Care as appropriate. Evaluates individualized patient goals by utilizing established policies and standards of care. Ensures pain assessment and re assessment is performed and documented as per policy.

Job Function: Documentation: Documents legibly and accurately in completing the patient chart. Documents all patient/family teaching interventions and responses. Documents patient responses to all medical and nursing interventions as per nursing standards.

Job Function: Collaboration: Acts as a patient advocate and assures that a patients' rights are respected. Promotes an environment where the patient and family is at the center and the patient care team works cooperatively toward their goal and objectives. Collaborates with physicians and other specialty caregivers to optimize patient and family care. Initiates and maintains an open line of communication with patients and their families to expedite delays, cares for their concerns or notifies charge nurse about unresolved problems needing resolution. Assures efficient turnaround time between cases, demonstrating organizational skills and priority setting. Participates in Peer Review Process and in Unit Based Shared Governance.

Job Function: Education: Orients and educates new staff members as to proper use of equipment and department policies and procedures. Demonstrates professional practice responsibility; fulfills mandatory education obligations. Identifies areas for clinical and professional growth. Attends pertinent educational offerings. Shows initiative to obtain information on new equipment and technology. Role models patient care activities, tasks, and behaviors to advance practice of endoscopy technician.

Job Function: Safety: Recognizes emergency situation and reacts appropriately. Maintains a safe clean patient care environment. Demonstrates knowledge and proper administration of medication. Maintains sterile field and adheres to standards for sterile procedures, if applicable. Assists with proper collection, labeling and processing of specimens as directed by physician. Is aware of their surroundings while maintaining focus on patient care avoiding distractions. Maintains all equipment as per policy and procedure and recognizes and reports any hazardous situation to supervisor.

Job Function: Equipment Function: Anticipates, provides and utilizes proper instrumentation, supplies and equipment. Maintains orderly and proper functioning and storage of equipment. Assures proper disinfection technique, as per Infection Control Committee and department policy, on all instruments and equipment used in department. Possesses knowledge to assemble / disassemble all equipment used in department.

Job Function: Cost Containment: Offers constructive suggestions regarding cost containment to leadership and follows hospital-based initiatives to reduce cost. Provides accurately charting of patients procedure and charge slip to ensure time revenue stream. Voluntarily seeks other duties when own assignment is completed. Responsibly signs in and out at designated times as per AHS policy. Demonstrates flexibility and responsibility in meeting staff needs of the unit.

Other Tasks Which May be Required: Leadership: Demonstrates professional behavior and problem-solving techniques. Adapts to change by originating own ideas while making leadership aware of initiatives. Demonstrates competence and willingness to function in a leadership role. Delegates patient care to others with an understanding of their role, knowledge, competencies. Assumes Charge nurse role as needed and facilitates cases and ensures efficient patient throughput.

Physical Requirements: As defined by Occupation Safety/OMS

Qualifications

Required: 1. Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse 2. Bachelor's degree in nursing. 3. BLS certification. 4. 2-3 yrs. endoscopy experience or inpatient hospital.

About Us

At Atlantic Health, 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 22,000 team members. Headquarters 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:

• Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ
• Atlantic Health Overlook Medical Center, Summit, NJ
• Atlantic Health Newton Medical Center, Newton, NJ
• Atlantic Health Chilton Medical Center, Pompton Plains, NJ
• Atlantic Health Hackettstown Medical Center, Hackettstown, NJ
• Atlantic Health Goryeb Children's Hospital, Morristown, NJ
• Atlantic Health CentraState Healthcare System, Freehold, NJ
• Atlantic Medical Group
• Atlantic Visiting Nurse
• Atlantic Mobile Health
• Atlantic Rehabilitation

We have more than 900 community-based healthcare providers affiliated through Atlantic Medical Group.

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:

• Chosen for 17 years by Fortune as one of the magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work For."
• Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook Named by Newsweek as two of the "World's Best Hospitals" in 2026.
• Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook ranked within the top three hospitals in New Jersey by U.S. News & World Report's 2025-2026 Best Hospital rankings.
• Atlantic Health scored four "A" grades by The Leapfrog Group in its Fall 2025 Hospital Safety Grades, performance measures reflecting errors, accidents, injuries and injections, as well as systems hospitals have in place to prevent harm.
• Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook are New Jersey's only hospitals to be named among America's 50 Best hospitals by Healthgrades in 2026.
• Named by Becker's Healthcare as one of the "165 Top Places to Work in Healthcare 2026.
• Atlantic Health Morristown, Atlantic Health Overlook, Atlantic Health Chilton and Atlantic Health Newton all Forbes Top Hospitals for 2026.
• Named by Newsweek as one of America's Greatest Workplaces for Inclusion & Diversity 2025.
• Atlantic Health rated LEVEL 9 - 2025 CHIME Digital Health Most Wired.

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.

Atlantic Health offers a competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards package that supports the health, financial security, and well-being of all team members. Offerings vary based on role level (Team Member, Director, Executive). Below is a general summary, with role-specific enhancements highlighted: Team Member Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription Coverage (22.5 hours per week or above for full-time and part-time team members)
• Life & AD&D Insurance.
• Short-Term