Registered Nurse - Rehab IP Peds

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
• Establishes 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
• 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
• Establishes a compassionate environment
• Promotes patient's independence
• Establishes patient care goals
• Educates patients, friends, and family to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills
• Answers questions by applying rehabilitation principles to patients served
• Demonstrates competence in providing age-specific care to pediatric patients, adult patients and geriatric patients
• Affirms quality of care
• Adheres to therapeutic standards
• Makes or recommends necessary adjustments
• Follows 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
• Participates in performance improvement activities
• Directs and assesses care provided to assigned patients by LPNs, Nursing Assistants, agency personnel, students and other associates
• Solves patient problems and needs
• Utilizes multidisciplinary team strategies
• Utilizes established communication methods to ensure resolution of patient problems and needs
• Communicates patient status to the interdisciplinary team
• Documents patient care services
• Maintains patient confidence and organizational confidentiality
• Maintains a safe and clean working environment
• Complies with procedures, rules, and regulations
• Complies with infection control policies and procedures, medication administration and storage procedures and controlled substance regulations
• Ensures operation of equipment
• Follows manufacturer's instructions
• Troubleshoots malfunctions
• Enters work orders for equipment repair
• Evaluates new equipment and techniques
• Maintains financial accountability
• Checks stock to determine inventory levels
• Anticipates needed supplies
• Uses equipment/supplies as needed to accomplish job results
• Minimizes overtime by work prioritization and delegation
• Recognizes and complies with RN’s role in reimbursement for patient care services
• Identifies and provides input to Nurse Managers on work methods that reduce the cost and/or time required to deliver patient care
• Maintains awareness of the unit budget
• Maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams
• Communicates information
• Responds to requests
• Buils rapport
• Participates in team problem-solving methods
• Communicates patient care or team issues to the nurse manager or supervisor
• Holds each team member accountable for patient and team outcomes
• Participates in team meetings
• Offers suggestions for improvement to the program director
• Utilizes the chain of command to present issues or concerns
• Demonstrates positive conflict resolution skills with all associates
• Treats all associates with dignity and respect
• Contributes to organizational team effort
• Arrives on duty as scheduled, maintains attendance, punches in and out as per Good Shepherd policy and maintains etime sheet
• Maintains dress code requirements
• Attends meetings as requested by organizational leaders
• Positively represents the profession and organization at work and away from work
• Promotes and participates in organizational goals
• Mentors channels of communication among nursing shifts, disciplines, departments, and external customers
• Utilizes 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)