Casual Professional Staff Nurse; RN; Inpatient Rehab - UPMC Carlisle

Professional Staff Nurse
- Casual
- Inpatient Rehab (UPMC Carlisle)

Position Detail:

• Casual Position
• Work Schedule:
  • Day/Evening/Night
  • 36 hours in 6 weeks
  • 12 hours of the 36 hours to be weekend hours
  • 1 holiday per year

Unit Highlights:

Make a difference you can see while building meaningful patient relationships. Rehabilitation patients typically spend more time on the unit, allowing you to truly get to know them, understand what matters most to them, and support their individual goals as they regain strength, mobility, independence, and confidence. Celebrate their progress and be part of their journey from admission through discharge.

Strengthen your hospital nursing skills and grow professionally in a supportive environment. Inpatient rehabilitation provides new graduate nurses with a strong foundation in assessment, medication administration, patient education, care coordination, clinical decision-making, and caring for patients with complex medical needs. Experienced nurses can broaden their knowledge and continue developing their clinical expertise. Whether you’re beginning your nursing career or bringing years of experience, you’ll have opportunities to learn, grow, and make a meaningful impact while seeing your patients progress.

Be part of a true interdisciplinary team. Collaborate every day with physical, occupational, and speech therapy, physicians, case management, and other hospital services. Together, you’ll develop a plan of care focused on helping each patient achieve their highest level of independence.

Purpose:

The Professional Staff Nurse is a Registered Nurse and a member of the care delivery team. The Professional Staff Nurse is responsible to set the standards for the level and quality of care. The Professional Staff Nurse has responsibility, authority and accountability for the provision of nursing care. The Professional Staff Nurse manages and provides patient care activities for a group of patients and their families through the application of independent judgment, communication and collaboration with all team members.

The role of the Professional Staff Nurse encompasses leadership, partnership, collaboration and supervision. The Professional Staff Nurse establishes and maintains collaborative relationships with physicians, other health care providers, patients and their families, to achieve desired patient outcomes throughout the continuum of care. The Professional Staff Nurse demonstrates a commitment to the community and to the nursing profession.

Responsibilities:

• Develops and maintains productive working relationships internally and externally by demonstrating accountability for actions, enthusiasm, motivation and commitment to patients and colleagues. Demonstrates an understanding of cultural differences and holds peers accountable for healthy relationships. Maintains a conscious balance between work and personal life. Models safe work hours, time management and healthy lifestyle. Communicates with peers and management any safety hazards identified in the workplace.
• Applies the nursing process within the framework of Relationship Based Care to create a healing environment. Formulates daily goals and a plan of care for patients that involves the patient as partner and considers the individual needs of the patient in a holistic manner. Demonstrates critical thinking in the identification of clinical, social, safety, psychological and spiritual issues for the patient care within an episode of care.
  
  Practices solid communication skills and is able to articulate and translate the patient's condition to other care providers and to negotiate and make recommendations for changes in patient care and unit practices. Patient documentation is comprehensive and…