Registered Nurse - Rehab

Good Shepherd Rehabilitation; Bethlehem (Northampton County); On-site; USD 75,000 - 99,000; Full time

Job summary

Good Shepherd Rehabilitation’s Pediatric Unit seeks an experienced registered nurse to deliver holistic care, collaborate with physicians and a multidisciplinary team, and educate families on conditions and care plans. The role emphasizes pediatric, adult, and geriatric care within a rehabilitation setting.

You will document interventions, ensure safe care, and participate in performance improvement activities while supporting a compassionate and respectful environment for patients and families.

Qualifications

• Associate's Degree in Nursing or Nursing Diploma required
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing preferred
• Previous med-surg experience or rehabilitation experience preferred
• 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)

Responsibilities

• Identify patient care requirements and develop plans within 24 hours of admission, coordinating with the interdisciplinary team
• Establish a compassionate environment providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients and families
• Educate patients and families about condition, medications, and self-care skills
• Ensure safety, infection control, and adherence to standards of care through documentation and compliance
• Document patient care services and progress in the medical record
• Delegate plan of care to LPNs and CNAs and monitor performance as appropriate

Skills

Nursing care

Interdisciplinary teamwork

Delegation

Patient education

Education

Associate's Degree in Nursing

Bachelor's Degree in Nursing preferred

Job description

Good Shepherd Rehabilitation · Pediatric Unit

• 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)

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GOOD SHEPHERD'S UNIVERSAL FLU PROGRAM

To protect our patients and residents, Good Shepherd requires influenza (flu) vaccinations for all Associates, licensed independent practitioners, contracted, agency and temporary employees, students and volunteers.

***Important Note: Good Shepherd & GSPP Rehabilitation are drug free and tobacco free work environments. As a result, candidates selected for employment may be subject to a drug screen test.***

Good Shepherd is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its hiring or employment practices. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by State or Federal law.