FT Days Magee Rehabilitation Hospital - Registered Nurse

Responsibilities

1. Possess specialized rehabilitation nursing and/or medical-surgical, acute nursing knowledge and clinical skills necessary to provide care for people with physical disabilities and chronic illnesses.
2. Exercises sound critical thinking skills and nursing judgement.
3. Coordinates educational activities and uses appropriate resources to develop and implement an individualized teaching and discharge plan with patients and their families.
4. Provides direction and supervision of ancillary nursing personnel, demonstrates processional judgment, and uses problem solving techniques, crucial conversations skills and time-management principles.
5. Delegates tasks and responsibilities that are in accordance with ANA (American Nurses Association) and ARN (Association of Rehabilitation Nursing) standards of practices.
6. Consistently provides a safe and therapeutic environment and supports activities that promote patients' goals and return to function and prevent complications.
7. Consistently reports and/or solves issues which poses risk to patient, employee and others served.
8. Provides hand-on nursing care by utilizing the nursing process to achieve quality outcomes for patients.
9. Creates care plans for individual patients that address their needs in order to develop nursing diagnoses and interventions. Regularly evaluates plan of care as needed for goal attainment.
10. Actively participates in team conferences and other team meetings as needed
11. Disseminates up-to-date inter-disciplinary communication regarding patient status and plan of care.
12. Executes best practice initiatives for patient satisfaction that includes but not limited to bed-side reporting, rounding and other nursing imperatives and work flow processes.
13. Demonstrates effective therapeutic oral communication skills to develop a rapport with patients, their families, and other multi-disciplinary team members.
14. Demonstrates documentation practices that follow standards of practice and organizational requirements.
15. Acts as a resource and role model for nursing staff and students and participates in activities such as nursing, hospital-wide committees and projects and professional organizations that promote the improvement of nursing care and advancement of professional rehabilitation nursing practice.
16. Applies nursing research to clinical practice and participates in nursing research activities.

• Must be a Registered Nurse (RN) licensed in Pennsylvania.
• Minimum Education: BSN required or current enrollment as approved by CNO
• CRRN is preferred.
• New graduates are welcome to apply if have had work experience as C.N.A or sufficient amount of work experience as student.
• Generally, a minimum of 1-year licensed professional nursing experience is preferred.
• Must possess sound knowledge of nursing principles, procedures, and ANA standards of practice and others as determined by state and federal regulations.
• English proficiency required.
• Proficient math, keyboarding and other computer skills required.
• Must be able to function in a dynamic, rehabilitation team work environment.

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• OUR VALUES: Put People First, Be Bold & Think Differently and Do the Right Thing