Registered Nurse Weekends - Rehab IP Peds Job Bethlehem area,Pennsylvania USA,Nursing

Pediatric Rehabilitation Nurse

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 interdisciplinary 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- By maintaining a clean and safe unit environment.
- By adhering to infection control policies and procedures, medication administration and storage procedures and controlled substance regulations.
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 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-services 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 time sheet.
- By demonstrating flexibility in response to change by offering to assist team members with patient care needs and unit activities…