Registered Nurse Inpatient Rehab

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our RN you will assume responsibility for facilitating communicating and collaborating with the healthcare team and patient/family to meet the physical emotional and spiritual needs of the patient advancing modern nursing through compassionate care.

Every day you will promote optimal patient health well-being and safety through the nursing process adhering to patient care standards guidelines and the State Nurse Practice Act and demonstrating personal accountability for relationship-based care and our organizational mission.

To be successful in this role you will be a Registered Nurse with a commitment to compassionate high-quality patient care strong communication and collaboration skills and the ability to apply the nursing process effectively within a supportive mission-driven environment.

• Assess patients physical psychosocial cultural and spiritual needs through observation interview review of medical records & clinical data.
• Evaluates patients response and intervenes to ensure optimal patient and implement patient plan of care and observe outcomes in accordance with nursing standards and in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
• Demonstrate competency in a variety of therapeutic/diagnostic interventions including but not limited to IVs incision/wound care medication administration catheterization and specimen and confidential maintenance of patient charts and records.
• Document ongoing status interventions patient response and outcomes in an accurate timely information technology to communicate manage knowledge mitigate error and support decision-making.
• Promote advocate and collaborate to protect the health and safety and rights of each patient/family education through assessment of patient/family learning readiness needs and ability.
• Provide teaching and evaluate effectiveness of teaching.

We are offering a $10000 sign on to new hires who meet the eligibility requirements.

.60 FTE-PT days-7am-7:30pm

Job Requirements

• Associates Degree in Nursing; Nursing Diploma or by endorsement
• Active and unencumbered RN License in state of employment
• BLS from the American Heart Association
• NIHSS
• One year RN experience
• Physical Requirements: Medium Work exert/lift up to 50 lbs. force occasionally and/or up to 20 lbs. frequently and/or up to 10lbs. constantly

Preferred

• Bachelors Degree in Nursing

Where Youll Work

The Inpatient Rehabilitation department at St. Catherine Hospital is a ten-bed acute inpatient physical rehabilitation unit. We care for post stroke and extremely debilitated patients and rehabilitate them to be able to go home safely. Our mission is to rehabilitate patients to their best quality of life. We are a desirable team that works collaboratively together somewhat flexible schedule and have a good education program within rehab. We look for candidates that are willing to work as a team can communicate well with staff patients and families and are supportive of the rehabilitation.

St. Catherine Hospital located in Garden City Kansas was founded by two pioneering physicians and the Dominican Sisters. They created and maintained the spirit that has enabled St. Catherine Hospital employees to develop a thriving health care facility unlike any other in southwest Kansas. Like many of the families and businesses in our community our roots run deep 85 years of excellence and counting. Residents of Garden City enjoy life in a relaxed small-town (population approx. 30000) with a zoo several parks golf courses modern shopping and more.

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