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Posted: 31-Dec-25
Location: Hackettstown, New Jersey
Categories:
General Nursing
ob Summary: Provides leadership and oversight for hospital operations during off-shifts, ensuring patient safety, quality care, and service excellence. Manages staffing, responds to emergencies, resolves issues, and supports professional practice and regulatory compliance.
Job Function 1: Overall Hospital role- Make rounds in all patient care areas to assess patient needs and acuity. Respond to emergencies and assist as needed. Handle incidents, emergencies, and operational issues, escalating as needed. Facilitate patient throughput. Serves as the senior administrative authority on site during off shifts, making operational decisions until relieved by senior leadership or designated department managers. thoughts
Job Function 2: Quality- Ensures the implementation of professional practice standards in alignment with organizational policies and evidence-based guidelines. Maintains compliance with all applicable local, state, and federal regulations, OSHA, Joint Commission, and other relevant accrediting bodies. Responsible for DOH mandatory reporting of applicable events while on duty.Oversees performance and ensures adherence to patient safety initiatives and regulatory requirements. Creates a working environment that promotes positive employee engagement, effective communications and collaboration
Job Function 3: Budget- Identifies and implements ways to reduce and control expenses. Monitors staffing levels in relation to patient census and acuity. Implements workforce adjustments as needed, including sending staff home, placing them on stand-by, or reallocating personnel to other areas to ensure safe, cost-effective staffing while maintaining patient care standards. Communicates these decisions with the appropriate unit manager / director to ensure transparency and alignment with departmental needs.
Job Function 4: Service- Serve as a key point of contact for addressing and resolving concerns from patients, staff members, visitors, and physicians in a timely and professional manner. Provide real-time support and communication to patients and families during times of dissatisfaction, conflict, or heightened emotion ensuring compassionate, empathetic responses and service recovery. Promote a culture of service excellence by modeling effective communication, empathy, and responsiveness. Investigate complaints or service disruptions, document findings. Facilitate conflict resolution and escalate complex issues to senior leadership when necessary.
Job Function 5: Administrative Responsibilities- Performs additional administrative responsibilities as requested to meet the needs of the department/organization. Participates on committees, actively supports the Shared Governance. Provide guidance, feedback, and performance documentation for staff. Act as liaison between nursing staff, department managers, and administrators-on-call. Ensure timely and accurate documentation to all significant events, staffing adjustments, patient/ family interactions, and service recovery actions, communicating to appropriate leaders by the next business day.
Job Function 6: Communicates quality performance concerns and patient care/safety concerns to appropriate personnel. Counsels and disciplines assigned personnel, documents issues and follows up with appropriate managers. Coordinates activity in response to activation of emergency codes until relieved by senior management on premises or presence of manager having expertise in specific area of concern. Acts as a liaison for the assignment of nursing personnel. Rewards and recognizes employee excellence. Assists with transfer/bed assignment of patients to appropriate, available beds. Leads hospital-wide emergency responses such as mass casualty incidents, IT system downtime, and utility failures until relieved by senior leadership.
Job Function 7: Professional Practice- Promotes shared decision-making and professional autonomy through active participation in a professional governance structure. Maintains engagement with relevant professional organizations. Supports the organization's Magnet journey by advancing nursing excellence and staff empowerment. Facilitates daily huddles to enhance communication, reinforce a culture of safety.
Bachelor's degree in Nursing
Education must be obtained from an accredited institution
Education
Bachelor's degree in Nursing
Education must be obtained from an accredited institution
Master's degree in Nursing, Business, Healthcare, or Finance preferred
Experience Three years of healthcare management experience
Certificates
Licenses Valid Registered Nursing or compact License
Other Desired Skill
Certification in area of specialty preferred
BLS Certification Required
ACLS Certification Required
Basis Dysrhythmia preferred
PALS Certification preferred
Additional Job Responsibilities
Positive communication skills
Experience with Quality initiatives, action plans, and auditing
Time management and multitasking skills to facilitate patient movement
Experience with Joint commission preparation for disease specific certification
Proven ability to coach teams and provide opportunities to facilitate team work
MS office experience
Problem solving, decision making and negotiation skills
Strong leadership skills
Able to work with multiple departments
Superior interpersonal skills
Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality
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 (r) and FORTUNE(r) 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(r) and FORTUNE(r) magazine
- One of the 20 Best Workplaces in Health Care: Great Place to Work(r) and FORTUNE(r) 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.
Atlantic Health System 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 and Long-Term Disability (with options to supplement)
- 403(b) Retirement Plan: Employer match, additional non-elective contribution
- PTO & Paid Sick Leave
- Tuition Assistance, Advancement & Academic Advising
- Parental, Adoption, Surrogacy Leave
- Backup and On-Site Childcare
- Well-Being Rewards
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Fertility Benefits, Healthy Pregnancy Program
- Flexible Spending & Commuter Accounts
- Pet, Home & Auto, Identity Theft and Legal Insurance
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Note: In Compliance with the NJ Pay Transparency Act (effective Sunday, June 1, 2025), all job postings will include the hourly wage or salary (or a range), as well as this summary of benefits. Final compensation and benefit eligibility may vary by role and employment status and will be confirmed at the time of offer.
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