Registered Nurse; Night Shift

Position: Registered Nurse (Night Shift, 7p-7a)
Location: City of White Plains

City/State:

White Plains, New York Department:

Nursing Administration Work Days:

ALTERNATE WEEKENDS, NIGHTS VARY Scheduled

Hours:

7 PM-7 AMScheduled Daily

Hours:

11.5 HOURSPay Rate/Range:$ + 3.75 shift diff

Job Summary The goal of rehabilitation nursing is to assist individuals with disability and/or chronic illness to attain and maintain maximum function. The rehabilitation staff nurse assists clients in adapting to an altered lifestyle, while providing a therapeutic environment for client's and their family's development. The rehabilitation staff nurse designs and implements treatment strategies that are based on scientific nursing theory related to self-care and that promote physical, psychosocial, and spiritual health.

Essential Functions Possesses the specialized knowledge and clinical skills necessary to provide care for people with physical disability and chronic illness

Coordinates educational activities and uses appropriate resources to develop and implement an individualized teaching and discharge plan with clients and their families

Performs hands-on nursing care by utilizing the nursing process to achieve quality outcomes for clients

Provides direction and supervision of ancillary nursing personnel, demonstrates professional judgment, uses problem solving techniques and time-management principles, and delegates appropriately

Coordinates nursing care activities in collaboration with other members of the interdisciplinary rehabilitation team to facilitate achievement of overall goals

Demonstrates effective oral and written communication skills to develop a rapport with clients, their families, and health team members and to ensure the fulfilment of requirements for legal documentation and reimbursement

Acts as a resource and a role model for nursing staff and students and participates in activities such as nursing committees and professional organizations that promote the improvement of nursing care and the advancement of professional rehabilitation nursing

Applies nursing research to clinical practice and participates in nursing research studies

Remains current with mandatory and continuing education

Shares information about the disease processes underlying disabilities and teaches nursing techniques to help clients and their families develop the self-care skills necessary to move toward wellness on the illness-wellness continuum

Prepares clients and their families for future self-management and decision-making responsibilities by fostering clients’ independence and goal achievement

Reinforces the teaching done by specialists in rehabilitation and other healthcare disciplines and provides resource materials for clients’ changing needs

Provides in-service education for healthcare team members and members of the community regarding the prevention of disabilities

Assesses the physical, psychological, sociocultural, and spiritual dimensions of clients and their families, as well as their educational and discharge needs in order to formulate nursing diagnoses

Plans nursing care while acknowledging that rehabilitation nursing is practiced within a dynamic, therapeutic, and supportive relationship that is constantly changing, as nurses and clients influence one another

Implements a plan of care by providing nursing care and education directly or through ancillary personnel, as needed, to maintain and restore function and prevent complications and further loss Evaluates the nursing care that is being provided and modifies the plan, as needed, to achieve measurable goals and objectives

Demonstrates the ability to translate knowledge physical, psychosocial and cognitive-perceptual changes related to age into assessments plans and treatment modalities for paediatric adolescent, young adult, adult and…