Restorative Nurse Aide

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

 

This role is a vital part of our healthcare team, dedicated to supporting patients as they work toward reaching their highest level of functionality. It is designed for individuals passionate about enhancing the quality of life for our residents and committed to helping them achieve greater independence and well-being. 

Facility: Medilodge of West Bloomfield

Why Medilodge?  

• Michigan’s Largest Provider of long-term care skilled nursing and short-term rehabilitation services. 
• Employee Focus : We foster a positive culture where employees feel valued, trusted, and have opportunities for growth. 
• Employee Recognition: Regular acknowledgement and celebration of individual and team achievements. 
• Career Development: Opportunities for learning, training, and advancement to help you grow professionally. 
• Michigan Award Winner: Recipient of the 2023 Michigan Employer of the Year Award through the Michigan Works! Association. 

Key Benefit Package Options?  

• Medical Benefits : Affordable medical insurance options through Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield. 
• Additional Healthcare Benefits : Dental, vision, and prescription drug insurance options via leading insurance providers. 
• Specialty Benefits: Reimbursement options for childcare, transportation, and a non-perishable food program for eligible employees.
• Michigan Direct Care Incentive: We offer a Three Dollar and Forty Cent Michigan Direct Care Incentive that is added to your hourly wage. 
• Flexible Pay Options: Get paid daily, weekly, or bi-weekly through OnShift Wallet. 
• Benefits Concierge : Internal company assistance in understanding and utilizing your benefit options.
• Pet Insurance : Three options available 
• Education Assistance : Tuition reimbursement and student loan repayment options. 
• Retirement Savings with 401K.
• HSA and FSA options 
• Unlimited Referral Bonuses . 

Start rewarding and stable career with Medilodge today!  

Requirements:

Summary: Provides rehabilitation/restorative nursing interventions that promote the resident’s ability to adapt

and adjust to living as independently and safely as is possible. This concept actively focuses on achieving and

maintaining optimal physical, mental, and psychosocial functioning. Restorative nursing interventions, except for

use of Coninuous Passive Motion (CMP), do not require a physician’s order.

Qualifications:

Education:

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED).

Licenses/Certification:

• Graduate of a state approved nursing assistant training program and passed a state approved competency examination (written and skills) within 120 days of employment; name entered into state nurse aide registry.

Experience:

• Six months experience in a long-term care environment preferred.

Essential Functions:

• Under the supervision of the licensed nurse, initiates rehabilitation/restorative nursing interventions when:

A resident is discharged from formalized physical, occupational, or speech rehabilitation

therapy, or

A resident is admitted to the center with restorative needs, but is not a candidate for formalized

rehabilitation therapy, or

A restorative need arises during the course of a custodial stay

• Performs rehabilitation/restorative nursing interventions that assist or promote the resident’s ability to attain his or her maximum functional potential:
• Range of Motion (Passive)
• Range of Motion (Active)
• Splint or Brace Assistance
• Training and Skill Practice

Bed mobility

Transfer

Walking

Dressing or grooming

Eating or swallowing

Amputation/prosthesis care

Communication

• Excellent Resident Care Through Teamwork
• Continuous Passive Motion (CMP)
• Documents measurable objectives and interventions in the care plan and in the clinical record.
• Promotes resident’s ability to adapt to and adjust to living as independently as possible.
• Instructs the resident in self-care activities according to the resident’s abilities.
• Instructs the resident in the use of assistive devices for transferring, walking and mobility, dressing and grooming, eating and swallowing
• Provides range of motion, proper turning and positioning in bed and chair.
• Instructs the resident on the care and use of prosthetic and orthotic devices.
• Incorporates training and skill practice activities which include repetition, physical or verbal cueing and task segmentation.
• Reports observations and other pertinent nursing rehabilitation/restorative care information to nursing supervisor.
• Documents objective information related to the provision and resident response to nursing rehabilitation/restorative care in accordance with existing policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Participates in the ongoing review and development of the nursing rehabilitation/restorative care and interventions.
• Participates in the identification of staff and resident educational needs related to nursing rehabilitation/restorative care.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Ability to communicate effectively with residents, their family members, and facility staff