Registered Nurse - Inpatient Rehab (Pediatrics)
Bethlehem-PA-18015-United States
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Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Hospital Emily Howatt Pliskatt Pediatric Unit is a specialized inpatient pediatric rehabilitation leader with programs designed specifically to treat children with complex medical and congenital conditions.
- 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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