Registered Nurse; RN), Comprehensive Medical Rehab Unit

Job Requirements

Part time .6 FTE 48 hours in a biweekly pay period.

• Supports excellence in clinical practice and patient care quality through the implementation and evaluation of educational programs that support positive staff and patient outcomes. Services include, but are not limited to: consultation, program design, organizational assessment and development, educational programming, materials development, and practice consultation.
• Designs systems and provides services which promote quality clinical practice of staff from multiple disciplines, which are customer oriented, and support collaboration across organizational boundaries. Serves as a resource to managers and staff; works in collaboration with Professional Development Coordinator. Contributes to the ongoing development of the organization through leadership, expertise, professional support, and collaboration with staff, affiliates, and outside agencies and organizations.
• Must demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age, culture, ethnicity, and specific individual diagnostic needs of the patients served in his/her department. He/she must be able to assess and interpret data about the patient’s status in order to identify each patient’s specific needs and provide the care needed by the patient group (pediatric, adolescents and/or geriatric patient group, culture and diagnostic specific).
• Consistently expresses and demonstrates compassion and courtesy for patients. Extends courtesy and support to patient’s families/visitors.

• AHA BLS Instructor
• Develop, plan, implement, & evaluate hospital core orientation, nursing orientation, in-service education.
• Use, facilitate use of educational equipment and resources.
• Incorporation of effective and creative educational strategies and methodology as an educator.
• Incorporate population specific principles into programming as appropriate.
• Establish and maintain an effective means of communicating pertinent information to interdisciplinary team members, managers, external customers, and professional colleagues.

• Anticipates and responds to customer needs. Identifies issues and takes responsibility for follow up.
• Facilitates cooperative and collaborative relationships among peers and organizational leaders to ensure effective and appropriate educational programming in compliance with standards.
• Collaborates at least annually with department leaders and nursing clinical practice committee to assess the learning needs for creating/revising/updating the nursing core orientation.
• Assumes the lead role in review and revision of nursing core orientation in collaboration with nursing clinical practice committee and nursing leadership.

• Participates in the development and implementation of the Department’s strategic plan, which is based on the mission, vision, values, and priorities of the organization.
• Effectively serves on, chairs, and/or consults with committees, focus groups and teams within the organization related to areas of expertise and responsibility.
• Mentors staff and seizes opportunities to implement changes that improve practice and patient care processes.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Collaborates with management staff and reviews quality performance indicators to identify priorities for action and allocate resources.
• Develops annual and short term goals, objectives, and functional target achievement dates for areas of responsibility as appropriate.
• Identifies outcomes to be achieved. Achieves identified outcomes within targeted time frames. Documents and communicates progress toward outcomes. Implements revisions in plans as required.
• Supports excellence in clinical practice through assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating programs that support positive staff and patient outcomes.
• Actively participates in and supports quality improvement initiatives.
• Analyzes performance improvement data and customer requirements, the current healthcare environment and best practice evidence to identify…