Registered Nurse Weekends - Specialty - Sign-on Bonus!
Bethlehem-PA-18015-United States
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The Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital has been helping patients recover from complex medical conditions and injuries since 2000. The first long-term acute-care hospital (LTACH) in the region, we help patients who are too medically fragile to transfer to a skilled nursing facility, acute rehabilitation hospital or their home after a hospital stay. In addition to general rehabilitation, our team is renowned for their expertise in ventilator weaning and respiratory care.
- Job summary
- Promotes and restores patients' health by completing the nursing process; collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary team members; providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families; supervising assigned team members.
- Essential functions
- Uses nursing process as a framework to deliver care:
- By assessing patient condition on admission and at regular intervals during assigned shift
- coordinating, prioritizing and integrating patient information from all aspects of clinical care
- delegating basic patient care needs to assistive personnel
- setting goals to organize assignments
- collaborating with patients and their families on the patient’s desired goals
- acting on physician’s orders in a timely manner
- developing independent nursing interventions appropriate to the patient’s response to care
- documenting interventions and their resultant responses and auditing aggregate performance in order to improve systems that support patient care.
- Establishes a compassionate environment
- By providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.
- Promotes patient's independence
- Teaching patients, friends, and family to understand conditions, medications, safety, and self-care skills
- 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 Nurse Practice Act, and other governing agencies.
- Maintains a safe and clean working environment
- By complying with procedures, rules, and regulations for safety and infection control
- keeping patient rooms in a neat and orderly fashion, cleaning assigned equipment or areas according to procedure and adhering to medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.
- Respects patients and the organization
- By recognizing patient rights, patient privacy
- keeping information confidential and responding to requests using tact and diplomacy.
- Ensures operation of equipment
- By completing preventive maintenance requirements
- following manufacturer's instructions
- troubleshooting malfunctions
- processing requisitions for repair
- maintaining equipment inventories
- evaluating new equipment and techniques.
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge
- By attending educational workshops
- reviewing professional publications
- establishing personal networks
- participating in professional societies.
- Maintaining current BLS and ACLS affirmations, attending required annual in-services, attending staff meetings regularly, documenting professional development on associate education records, conducts annual learning sessions in collaboration with the patient care specialist, identifies learning needs and seeks professional improvement.
- Demonstrates financial accountability
- Checking stock to determine inventory level
- anticipating needed supplies
- placing and expediting orders for supplies
- verifying receipt of supplies
- using equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish job results.
- Contributes to organizational team effort
- By communicating information
- responding to requests
- building rapport
- participating in team problem-solving methods
- participating in at least one performance improvement team or project, completing assignments by a specified deadline, assists in evaluating improvements and aggregating performance according to standards.
- Maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams
- By accomplishing related results as needed, following through on delegated tasks, responding to co-workers' requests for assistance, demonstrating behaviors as defined by the GSSH code of conduct, acting as a resource and/or leader when the need arises.
- By documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs.
- Promotes the development of good shepherd as a system
- By promoting the positive image of Good Shepherd
- acting as a preceptor for new associates or students
- communicating performance outcomes and results
- responding to change in a constructive and positive manner.
- 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 acute care experience preferred
- Licenses / Certifications
- Registered Nurse license required
- Basic Life Support / CPR, as a healthcare provider, per the American Heart Association required
- ACLS required; must obtain ACLS within eighteen months of employment and then maintain certification throughout employment
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