Registered Nurse
•30 days ago
| Estimated Pay info | Based on similar jobs in your market$29 per hour |
|---|---|
| Hours | Full-time, Part-time |
| Location | Cape Girardeau, MO Cape Girardeau, Missouri open_in_new |
About this job
Description
Inpatient Rehabilitation | Cape Girardeau, MO | Contractor
Job Description
Job Summary
The registered professional nurse coordinates, plans, directs and implements the nursing process in the delivery of patient care
Essential Functions
- Assist individuals with disability and/or chronic illness to attain and maintain maximum function
- Assists patients in adapting to an altered lifestyle, while providing a therapeutic environment for patient’s and their family’s development
- Perform hands-on nursing care by utilizing the nursing process to achieve quality outcomes for patients
- Provides direction and supervision of ancillary nursing personnel, demonstrates professional judgment, uses problem solving techniques and time-management principles, and delegates appropriately
- Coordinates nursing care activities in collaboration with other members of the interdisciplinary rehabilitation team to facilitate achievement of overall goals
- Demonstrates effective oral and written communication skills to develop a rapport with clients, their families and health team members and to ensure the fulfillment of requirements for legal documentation and reimbursement
- Acts as a resource and a role model for nursing staff and participates in activities such as nursing committees and professional organizations that promote the improvement of nursing care
- Prepares patients and their families for future self-management and decision-making responsibilities by fostering clients’ independence and goal achievement
- Reinforces the teaching done by specialists in rehabilitation and other areas of the hospital and provides resource materials for patients’ changing needs
- Implements a plan of care by providing nursing care and education directly or through ancillary personnel, as need, to maintain and restore function and prevent complications and further loss
- Evaluates the nursing care that is being provided and modifies the plan, as needed, to achieve measurable goals and objectives
- Participates in the interdisciplinary team process at team conferences and other team meetings and offers input into team decision making
- Intervenes with team members and other healthcare professionals to ensure that the optimal opportunity for recovery is made available to the patient, the most significant member of the rehabilitation team
- Collaborates with team members to achieve cost-effective care by utilizing appropriate clinical measures to meet emergent physical, psychosocial and spiritual situations
- Plan, organize, direct, utilize nursing process
- Medication management
- Patient safety
- IV therapy skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Recognition of patient changes
- Interpersonal interactions
- Customer Service (First Class Care)
- Computer system for documentation
- Patient Education
- Patient Advocacy
- Supervise Nurse Aids, Unit Techs and other ancillary staff.
- Document Quality Indicators
- Any other duties as needed to drive to the Vision, fulfill the Mission and abide by the Values of the organization
Qualifications
- Associate's Degree Nursing required
- RN - Registered Nurse - State Licensure And/Or Compact State Licensure State of Missouri Upon Hire required
- BLS - Basic Life Support Upon Hire required
- Certified in Quality Indicators Within 2 Years required
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