Registered Nurse (RN) - Full-Time, Days
Chester, NJFull-time$46–61.93/hrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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Job overview
Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation is seeking a Registered Nurse for its inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Chester, New Jersey. The nurse works full-time day shifts, partnering with a Nursing Assistant to support patients’ care plans and goals. The role serves patients with brain and spinal cord injuries, neurological and orthopedic conditions, amputations, and multiple traumas.
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Overview
Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation
Position: Registered Nurse (RN)
Location: 201 Pleasant Hill, Chester, NJ (Morris County)
Schedule: Full-Time, Days 7AM-7:30PM(Includes Weekday & Weekend Shifts)
Compensation: $46.00/Hour - $61.93/Hour (Based on Experience)+ Shift Differential
Our inpatient rehabilitation hospital is committed to providing exceptional and compassionate care tobest address the medical, physical, emotional, and vocational challenges for individuals with brain injuries,spinal cord injuries, neurological disorders, orthopedic issues, amputation, and multiple traumas.
We support your career growth and personal well-being:
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Start Strong: Extensive and thorough orientation program to ensure a smooth transition into our setting
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Advance Your Career: Tuition reimbursement and continuing education opportunities
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Elevate Your Skills: Clinical ladder program.
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Ease the Burden: Student debt benefit program
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Your Health Matters : Comprehensive medical/RX, health, vision, and dental plan offerings
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Recharge & Refresh: Generous PTO to maintain a healthy work-life balance
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Invest in Your Future: Company-matching 401(k) retirement plan, as well as life and disability protection
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Your Impact Matters: Join a team of over 44,000 nationwide committed to providing exceptional care
Responsibilities
On each shift, you will partner with a Nursing Assistant and handle a manageable case load. Together, you will help our patients achieve the outlined goals and milestones based on their unique patient care plan.
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Receiving admissions and/or transfers.
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Initial and ongoing systematic patient assessment.
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Timely and accurate documentation usingEPIC
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Interpreting assessment/diagnostic data, including labs and telemetry.
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Ensuring medical orders are transcribed and processed accurately.
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Promoting continuous quality improvement.
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Instructing and counseling patients/families.
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements
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Valid State RN License is required
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BLS is required at hire
Preferred Qualifications
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BSN or enrollment in a BSN program
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Clinical experience
Additional Data
Post offer employment testing (POETs) are completed as part of the onboarding process, to be completed before an employee's first day of work.
Equal Opportunity Employer/including Disabled/Veterans
Location : Location US-NJ-Chester
Job ID 389056
Position Type Full Time
Experience (Years) 1
Category Registered Nurse
Company Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation - Welkind (Chester)
How this job compares
Set against the 59,601 open Registered Nurse jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$46–61.93/hr
- New Jersey median$45–48/hr870 hourly ranges
- US median$38–54/hr25,203 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $53.97/hr, is 17% above the New Jersey median midpoint ($46/hr) — in the top quarter of Registered Nurse hourly ranges in New Jersey.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,302 open Registered Nurse jobs in New Jersey and 59,601 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New Jersey
- Hackensack Meridian Health329 open
- Atlantic Health System202 open
- BAYADA Home Health Care130 open
- Experience
- Registered Nurse postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (29,224 postings).
- Education
- 4,115 of the 59,601 open Registered Nurse jobs (7%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Pay, requirements and demand for Registered Nurse jobs
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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