Registered Nurse
Cooper Norcross Health
Registered Nurse
Cooper Norcross Health
Academic health system serving South Jersey
Cooper Norcross Health, formerly Cooper University Health Care, is a leading academic health system affiliated with Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. Headquartered in Camden, New Jersey, Cooper Norcross Health has revenues of more than $3 billion and an A+ credit rating from both S&P and Fitch Ratings.
Cooper Norcross Health has nearly 14,000 team members, including more than 2,200 nurses, more than 1,200 employed physicians representing 95 specialties and subspecialties, and more than 700 advanced practice providers.
The health system operates MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper as well as four hospitals – its 663-bed flagship Cooper Norcross University Hospital in Camden, its 229-bed Cooper Norcross University Hospital Cape Regional in Cape May Court House, Children’s Hospital at Cooper Norcross Health in Camden, and The Recovery Village Cherry Hill at Cooper, a substance abuse rehabilitation and inpatient treatment facility, in partnership with Advanced Recovery Systems.
Cooper Norcross University Hospital in Camden is the only Level 1 Trauma Center in South Jersey and the busiest in the region. The hospital has been recognized as a top-performing regional hospital by U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals annual survey for eight years.
More than 2.54 million patients visit Cooper Norcross Health facilities annually. Its ambulatory network encompasses three outpatient surgery centers, seven urgent care centers, a wound care center, and more than 130 physician, physical therapy, and radiology offices extending from the Delaware River to the New Jersey shore.
Cooper Norcross Health, a not-for-profit health system, was named one of America’s Best Large Employers for 2026 by Forbes, ranking among the top 200 in the nation. Visit CooperHealth.org(opens in new window) to learn more.
The Registered RN is a professional caregiver, who as a member of a multidisciplinary healthcare team, assumes responsibility and accountability for a group of patients for a designated time frame. They supervise and provide care to these patients utilizing the nursing process, including the therapeutic use of self.
Key Responsibilities
Follows established policies and procedures.
Communicates openly with internal customers and supervisors.
Provides excellent customer service, interfacing well with all levels of staff, management, and physicians.
Applies Cooper's core values.
Performs Other duties as required.
Kelemen North 7 is a 23-bed medical surgical/telemetry unit specializing in the care of traumatically injured patients. Patients with injuries that are stable but require ongoing close monitoring are admitted to this unit directly from the ED or the Ross Trauma Admitting Area. Patients are also admitted to the unit as they are downgraded from the Trauma/Surgical ICU or the Trauma Step-Down Unit. Patients usually cared for in this area include those with traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, rib fractures and lung injuries, as well as diverse orthopedic injuries requiring frequent monitoring and care. The unit is staffed with registered nurses, critical care technicians, trauma surgery nurse practitioners and resident physicians. Staff also work closely with respiratory therapy and specialized surgical groups such as orthopedics and neurosurgery. Nurses and critical care technicians working in this area receive education specific to the care of the trauma patient.
A minimum of one year or more of RN acute care experience in an inpatient setting is preferred
Graduate of NLN accredited School of Nursing.
Current NJ-RN License (Registered Nurse).
Current NJ-BLS Certification (Basic Life Support)
Certain specialties may require advanced certification (i.e., ACLS, NALS, PALS).
Academic health system serving South Jersey
Cooper Norcross Health is an academic health system serving South Jersey from the Philadelphia suburbs to the Jersey Shore. Its Camden flagship is South Jersey's only Level I adult trauma center and the busiest in the Philadelphia region; the system also operates a Level II pediatric trauma center and MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper. Patients access primary, specialty, emergency, inpatient, surgical, urgent, and rehabilitation services at Cooper hospitals and outpatient clinics, while physicians teach at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University and advance care and research. Rooted in Cooper Hospital, which opened in 1887, the not-for-profit system is headquartered in Camden, New Jersey.
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