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Position Summary:

• Assesses and diagnoses patient, family and significant other needs in order to provide quality care to assigned patients.
• Performs admission assessment in accordance with specific unit standards.
• Incorporates specific assessment of bio/psycho/social/sexual/spiritual status at the time of admission and throughout care; compares and contrasts to age norms as one indicator of health, actual or potential deviations from health, and individualized need for nursing intervention.
• Assesses and reassesses as appropriate for risk factors including but not limited to risks of suicide, self-injurious behavior, imminent aggression, elopement and fall risks

Minimum Education and Experience:

• Current status as a Registered Nurse in the state of New Jersey.

City: Piscataway

State: NJ

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

• Position requires standing 2/3 of the time, walking 2/3 of the time, requires sitting 1/3 of the time, use of hands to finger, handle or feel 2/3 of the time, reach with hands and arms, 1/3 of the time, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl 1/3 of the time, talk or hear over 2/3 of the time.
• Manual dexterity and intermittent physical exertion when performing job activities.

• Moderate noise (examples: business office with computers and printers, light traffic).
• Subject to unpredictable situations, patient crises, both medical and psychiatric.
• Occasionally exposed to patients exhibiting assaultive behaviors.
• Exposure to bloodborne pathogens that requires use of personal protective equipment.
• May be exposed to varying or extreme temperatures.

Posting Number: 26ST0131

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