Registered Nurse - Graduate Nurse - Center Valley

Good Shepherd Rehabilitation
· Rehab Hospital - Center Valley

Center Valley , PA

Full Time (36+ hrs/wk) , Night Shift - 12 hours , 7:00pm - 7:30am + Weekend as Assigned + EOH

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. The graduate nurse who holds a TPP must practice under the supervision of an experienced, Pennsylvania registered nurse who is physically present in the unit or area where the graduate nurse is practicing.

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 patients progress toward goals as the patient's condition changes

by communicating the plan and patient progress to the interdisciplinary team.

By providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.

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.

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 assessing care provided to assigned patients by LPNs, Nursing Assistants, agency personnel, and other associates.

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.

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.

By keeping information confidential.

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, rules and regulations

by adhering to infection control policies and procedures, medication administration and storage procedures and controlled substance regulations.

By maintaining compliance with professional, regulatory and governmental standards of care.

By demonstrating knowledge of responsibilities in an emergency situation (i.e., code blue, Dr. Wintergreen, etc.).