Registered Nurse - Rehab Hospital Center Valley Job Bethlehem area,Pennsylvania USA,Nursing

Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network has opened a state‑of‑the‑art, 76‑bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital that will revolutionize treatment and recovery options for people with complex medical conditions, such as stroke, spinal cord injury, brain injury and other serious injuries or illnesses. The four‑story, 123,000‑square‑foot facility on Center Valley Parkway features all private rooms and offers world‑class physical rehabilitation care to patients who are recovering from complex and catastrophic conditions.

One of the most novel and exciting spaces to spur innovation in Good Shepherd’s new hospital is Empower+. This first‑of‑its‑kind space will give people with disabilities and other mobility challenges an environment where they can explore the latest advancements, like 3D printing, robotics, wearables, artificial intelligence and smart home and personal assistance devices, designed to promote healing and independence and make people’s lives better.

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; delegate and evaluate care assigned to LPNs and CNAs to meet patient care needs.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

IDENTIFIES PATIENT CARE REQUIREMENTS
- By establishing personal rapport with potential and actual 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 patient’s 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 patient, 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 state board of nursing, 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 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,…