Registered Nurse - Weekends - Rehab Hospital Center Valley

Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network has opened a state-of-the-art, 76-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital that will revolutionize treatment and recovery options for people with complex medical conditions, such as stroke, spinal cord injury, brain injury and other serious injuries or illnesses. The four-story, 123,000-square-foot facility on Center Valley Parkway features all private rooms and offers world-class physical rehabilitation care to patients who are recovering from complex and catastrophic conditions.

One of the most novel and exciting spaces to spur innovation in Good Shepherd's new hospital is Empower+. This first-of-its-kind space will give people with disabilities and other mobility challenges an environment where they can explore the latest advancements, like 3D printing, robotics, wearables, artificial intelligence and smart home and personal assistance devices, designed to promote healing and independence and make people's lives better.

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 by establishing 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.
• Establishes or contributes to prioritization of goals appropriate to the patient's age and ability to learn, estimated 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.
• 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.
• Educates patient, 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.
• Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards.
• Measures health outcomes against patient care goals and standards.
• Makes or recommends necessary adjustments.
• Follows hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, 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.
• Resolves patient problems and needs by utilizing 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 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.
• Calls for assistance from health care support personnel.
• Maintains a clean and safe unit environment; keeps patient rooms, supply rooms and hallways free from clutter.
• Adheres to infection control policies and procedures, medication administration and storage procedures and controlled substance regulations.
• Maintains compliance with professional, regulatory and governmental standards of care.
• Demonstrates knowledge of responsibilities in an emergency situation.
• Ensures operation of equipment by following manufacturer's instructions.
• Troubleshoots malfunctions.
• Enters work orders for equipment repairs.
• Evaluates new equipment and techniques.
• Demonstrates financial accountability by checking stock to determine inventory level.
• 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 unit budget.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by identifying personal educational needs and opportunities.
• Attends educational workshops.
• Completes mandatory educational requirements.
• Reviews professional publications.
• Establishes personal networks.
• Participates in professional organizations.
• Shares new knowledge with teams.
• Attends unit meetings.
• Reads unit memos.
• Participates in committees, projects and PI activities.
• Maintains responsibility for own professional development through active participation in in-services and/or continuing education programs.
• Maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information.
• Responds to requests.
• Builds 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 by arriving on duty as scheduled, maintaining attendance, punching in and out as per Good Shepherd policy and maintaining time sheet.
• Demonstrates flexibility in response to change.
• Offers to assist team members with patient care needs and unit activities that arise throughout the shift.
• Participates in orienting new employees.
• Meets 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.

• Associate's Degree in Nursing or Nursing Diploma required.
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing preferred.
• Prior experience med-surg or rehabilitation experience preferred.
• Registered Nurse license required.
• Basic Life Support / CPR, as a healthcare provider, per the American Heart Association required.
• Certification in Rehabilitation Nursing preferred (must be acquired within 3 years of employment).