REGISTERED NURSE (RN) - MEDICAL REHAB UNIT (12 HOUR SHIFTS 7P-7A)
Company: Hospital for Special Care
Location: New Britain
Posted on: January 23, 2023
Job Description:
- Sign On Bonuses up to $7,500 !
- QUALIFICATIONS
- Registered Nurse:
- Required: Successful completion of an accredited school of
nursing program
- Required: Current licensure as a registered nurse in the State
of Connecticut
- Required: Demonstrated competence in the clinical setting.
- Required: Valid drivers license (NBU only)
- Preferred: Valid/Current CPR (required within 3 months of
employment.)
- Preferred: Bachelor degree in Nursing
- Graduate Nurse:
- Required: Successful completion of an accredited school of
nursing program. Primary source verification required to establish
90 day time frame for temporary practice privileges
post-graduation.
- Required: Temporary practice provisions for graduate nurses as
outlined by the Connecticut State Department of Public Health and
Board of Examiners for Nursing.
- Preferred: Valid/Current CPR Certification (required within 3
months of employment).
- JOB SUMMARY
- The registered nurse and graduate nurse functions within the
team as a professional caregiver who assumes responsibility and
accountability for providing quality care to patients and their
families. This involves assessing, planning, implementing, and
evaluation all aspects of patient care, considering the physical,
psychological, environmental and social needs.
- PHYSICAL DEMANDS
- This job requires continuous periods of walking, standing,
bending, reaching, with periodic sitting. Occasional climbing,
squatting, and kneeling as related to patient care. Job requires
the ability to lift or carry objects up to 10 pounds continuously,
20 pounds frequently and up to 40 pounds frequently for assisting
with patient transfers and bed mobility. Ability to push/pull up to
25 lbs. frequently for medication carts/equipment and 50 pounds
occasionally for patient care and mobility activities. In addition,
this job requires frequent use of gross, fine motor and sensory
skills in order to pass medications, perform assessments and
treatments, and handle equipment used in patient care.
- COGNITIVE DEMANDS
- Job requires independent problem identification, abstract
reasoning and adaptability to changing environments and
information. Application of previously acquired knowledge,
flexibility of thought, and organizational skills are necessary.
Quick decision-making is required. A high degree of selective
attention, discernment, perception and concentration is
necessary.
- Job requires a proficiency in English including attention to
detail, adherence to all elements of style and ability to
postulate. A working knowledge and familiarity with
professional/medical terms and definitions is required.
- Job requires a high degree of communication skills including
expression of abstract/complex ideas, use of negotiation and active
listening, and an ability to dialogue with multiple parties.
- Job requires reading and auditory comprehension of abstractions
and an ability to make inferences. A working knowledge and
familiarity with professional/medical documentation is
necessary.
- Job requires the ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide
with all units of measure, and the ability perform these operations
with common and decimal fractions. Must be able to compute ratio,
rate, percent, and perform arithmetic operation involving units of
weights, measures and volume.
- ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Performs comprehensive patient assessments within scope of
practice.
- Formulates, coordinates, and evaluates a goal-directed plan of
care that is prioritized and based on patient outcomes. Addresses
the plan of care according to the ANA standards of practice.
- Coordinates patient activities for assigned group of patients
to facilitate patient care outcomes ex: admission, discharge,
transfers in collaboration with the treatment team.
- Demonstrates competency in critical thinking.
- Responds appropriately in an emergency situation as per
Hospital for Special Care policies, protocols and standards.
- Provides individualized, culturally competent care.
- Administers medications according to HSC policies and
standards, including documentation of medication
administration.
- Performs the role of charge nurse after completion of the
charge role orientation.
- Documents accurately according to HSC policy and ANA standards
of practice in a timely thorough manner.
- Participates in activities that promote interdisciplinary
collaboration.
- Demonstrates ability to utilize nursing and multidisciplinary
standards, policies, protocols regulatory standards.
- Demonstrates ongoing self-growth and professional development
by attending educational inservices and /or conferences
(internal/external).
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