Registered Nurse - Rehab

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; delegate and evaluate care assigned to LPNs and CNAs to meet patient care needs.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Identifies Patient Care Requirements:
  • Establishes personal rapport with potential and actual 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.
      • Estimates length of stay, medical diagnoses and discharge plan.
        • Identifies nursing care needs, writes nursing interventions and identifies educational objectives appropriate to care standards.
          • Reassesses and documents the effectiveness of nursing actions and the patient’s progress toward goals as the patient’s condition changes.
            • Communicates the plan and patient progress to the interdisciplinary team.
              • Delegates the plan of care to other licensed and unlicensed associates within their scope of practice.