Registered Nurse - Rehab

Job description

• Job summary
• Promotes and restores patients' health by completing the nursing process; collaborating with physicians and intermultidisciplinary team members; providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families; delegating and evaluating care assigned to LPNs and CNAs to meet patient care needs.
• Essential functions
• Identifies patient care requirements
• By establishing personal rapport with potential and current patients and other persons in a position to understand care requirements.
• Uses the nursing process as a framework to deliver care by establishing or contributing to a plan of care with the patient, including a teaching plan, within 24 hours of admission
• establishing or contributing to prioritization of goals appropriate to the patient’s age and ability to learn
• estimated length of stay, medical diagnoses and discharge plan
• Identifying nursing care needs, writing nursing interventions and identifying educational objectives appropriate to care standards
• by reassessing and documenting the effectiveness of nursing actions and the patients progress toward goals as the patient’s condition changes
• by communicating the plan and patient progress to the interdisciplinary team
• delegating the plan of care to other licensed and unlicensed associates within their scope of practice.
• Establishes a compassionate environment
• By providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.
• Promotes patient's independence
• By establishing patient care goals
• educating patients, friends, and family to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills
• answering questions by applying rehabilitation principles to patients served
• by demonstrating competence in providing age-specific care to pediatric patients, adult patients and geriatric patients.
• Assures quality of care
• By adhering to therapeutic standards
• measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards
• making or recommending necessary adjustments
• following hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care set by the state board of nursing, the State Nurse Practice Act, and other governing agency regulations
• by participating in performance improvement activities
• by directing and assessing care provided to assigned patients by LPNs, Nursing Assistants, agency personnel, students and other associates.
• Resolves patient problems and needs
• By utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies
• by utilizing established communication methods to ensure resolution of patient problems and needs
• by communicating patient status to the interdisciplinary team.
• Documents patient care services
• By documenting delivery of services, changes in the patient’s condition and the patient’s response to nursing interventions in the medical record according to policies and procedures.
• Maintains patient confidence and organizational confidentiality
• By keeping information confidential.
• Maintains a safe and clean working environment
• By complying with procedures, rules, and regulations
• calling for assistance from health care support personnel
• by maintaining a clean and safe unit environment
• keeping patient rooms, supply rooms and hallways free from clutter
• by complying with procedures, rules and regulations
• by adhering to infection control policies and procedures, medication administration and storage procedures and controlled substance regulations.
• By maintaining compliance with professional, regulatory and governmental standards of care.
• By demonstrating knowledge of responsibilities in an emergency situation.
• Ensures operation of equipment
• By following manufacturer's instructions
• troubleshooting malfunctions
• entering work orders for equipment repairs
• evaluating new equipment and techniques.
• Demonstrates financial accountability
• By checking stock to determine inventory level
• anticipating needed supplies
• using equipment/supplies as needed to accomplish job results
• By minimizing overtime by work prioritization and delegation
• recognizes and complies with RN’s role in reimbursement for patient care services.
• By identifying and providing input to Nurse Managers on work methods that reduce the cost and/or time required to deliver patient care.
• By maintaining awareness of the unit budget.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge
• By identifying personal educational needs and opportunities
• attending educational workshops
• completing mandatory educational requirements
• reviewing professional publications
• establishing personal networks
• participating in professional organizations
• sharing new knowledge with teams
• attending unit meetings
• reading unit memos
• participating in committees, projects and PI activities.
• By maintaining responsibility for own professional development through active participation in in-service and/or continuing education programs.
• Maintains a Cooperative Relationship Among Health Care Teams
• By communicating information
• responding to requests
• building rapport
• participating in team problem-solving methods
• by communicating patient care or team issues to the nurse manager or supervisor
• holding each team member accountable for patient and team outcomes
• participate in team meetings
• offering suggestions for improvement to the program director
• utilizing the chain of command to present issues or concerns
• demonstrate positive conflict resolution skills with all associates
• treat all associates with dignity and respect.
• Contributes to organizational team effort
• By arriving on duty as scheduled, maintaining attendance, punching in and out as per Good Shepherd policy and maintaining etime sheet.
• By demonstrating flexibility in response to change by offering to assist team members with patient care needs and unit activities that arise throughout the shift
• participating in orienting new employees
• meeting dress code requirements.
• By attending meetings as requested by organizational leaders
• by positively representing the profession and organization at work and away from work
• promoting and participating in organizational goals.
• By mentoring channels of communication among nursing shifts, disciplines, departments, and external customers.
• By utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies, to assure resolution of patient problems and needs.
• Qualifications
• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Education
• Associate's Degree in Nursing or Nursing Diploma required
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing preferred
• Work Experience
• Previous med-surg experience or rehabilitation experience preferred
• Licenses / Certifications
• Registered Nurse license required
• Basic Life Support / CPR, as a healthcare provider, per the American Heart Association required
• PALS certification preferred for all staff (must be acquired within first 6 months of employment)
• Certification in Rehabilitation Nursing preferred (must be acquired with 2 years of employment)