Registered Nurse - RN - Acute Rehab

Registered Nurse (RN) – Acute Rehab

Job Type: Full-Time | Nights

Schedule: 12 hour shifts | 6:45pm-7am

Your Experience Matters at Canyon Vista Medical Center

Canyon Vista Medical Center is part of Lifepoint Health, a diversified healthcare delivery network with facilities coast to coast. We are driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well-being so you can provide exceptional care to others. At Canyon Vista Medical Center, we are driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well-being so you can provide exceptional care to others. Here, you’re not just valued as an employee, but as a person. As a registered nurse (RN) joining our team, you’re embracing a vital mission dedicated to making communities healthier. Join us on this meaningful journey where your skills, compassion, and dedication will make a remarkable difference in the lives of those we serve.

About our team

At Canyon Vista Medical Center’s Acute Rehab Department, healing goes beyond recovery—it’s about restoring independence, dignity, and quality of life. Our interdisciplinary team is dedicated to guiding patients through some of their most critical transitions, delivering personalized, goal-driven care that empowers individuals to regain strength and confidence. Every patient journey is supported by skilled nurses, therapists, and providers who collaborate seamlessly to achieve meaningful outcomes.

What truly sets our Acute Rehab team apart is our purpose-driven culture. We celebrate progress—big and small—and take pride in helping patients return to the lives they love. In this environment, your work has a direct and lasting impact, your contributions are valued, and your passion for patient-centered care is matched by a team that supports and uplifts one another every step of the way.

How You’ll Contribute

The Registered Nurse - RN assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates care for a given population based upon age specific and cultural needs. This is done in a collaborative multidisciplinary approach embracing quality and safety.

Essential Functions

• Performs plan of care intervention, including medication administration, specimen collection, clinical treatments, as well as other medical care treatment.

• Documents patient care given. Monitors, records, and communicates patient condition as appropriate to care team, physician, patient, and family.

• Assists patients with performing activities of daily living, including personal hygiene, elimination, nutrition, and ambulation.

• Collaborates as needed across disciplines to coordinate patient care, including patient transfer, discharge, referral and spiritual/psychosocial support needs.

• Evaluates learning needs of patient and/or family and provides patient/family education appropriate to age, culture, condition, and circumstances.

• Works as an advocate for the physical and emotional well-being of the patient.

• The Registered Nurse assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates care for a given population based upon age specific and cultural needs.

• This is done in a collaborative multidisciplinary approach embracing quality and safety.

• Assures quality of care by measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments; following hospital philosophies and standards of care set by Arizona State Board of Nursing, and other governing agency regulations.

• Coordinates the delivery of patient care for the Rehab Unit, facilitates problem solving with staff members and communicates necessary issues to nursing administration and the Program Manager.

• Every effort has been made to make this job description as complete as possible.

• To perform this job, an individual must perform each essential function satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation.

Why Choose Us:

We believe that investing in our employees is the first step to providing excellent patient care. In addition to your base compensation, this position also offers:

• Comprehensive Benefits: Multiple levels of medical, dental and vision coverage — with medical plans starting at just $10 per pay period — tailored benefit options for part-time and PRN employees, and more.
• Financial Protection & PTO: Life, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, short- and long-term disability, paid family leave and paid time off.
• Financial & Career Growth: Higher education and certification tuition assistance, loan assistance and 401(k) retirement package and company match.
• Employee Well-being: Mental, physical, and financial wellness programs (free gym memberships, virtual care appointments, mental health services and discount programs).
• Professional Development: Ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities.

What we’re looking for:

Applicants should have a current Arizona or compact state RN license and possess an associate’s degree from an accredited nursing school. Additional requirements include:

• Graduate of a Registered Nursing Program required.
• 1 to 2 years of experience preferred.
• Must have an active AZ or Compact LPN or LVN License.
• AHA BLS required. If you have other than AHA, you will have 30 days from your date of hire to obtain your AHA BLS.

More About Canyon Vista Medical Center

People are our passion and purpose. Come work where you are appreciated for who you are not just what you can do. Canyon Vista Medical Center is located in Sierra Vista, Arizona and is a 106 bed Joint Commission Accredited offering a number of specialty services. We are proud to serve our community with a Level III Trauma unit, Center of Excellence for Total Joint Replacement, Level I Nursery, American College of Radiology Accredited Facility, as well as many other state of the art services to ensure our patients are cared for.

EEOC Statement:

Canyon Vista Medical Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Canyon Vista Medical Center is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment in employment.

Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier. Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities. We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country.
We employ and provide care to people from all walks of life. We are committed to promoting healing, providing hope, preserving dignity and producing value with an inclusive workforce in which diversity is leveraged, respected, and reflective of the patients, family members, customers and team members we serve.