Registered Nurse, Casual - Inpatient Rehab Unit

UPMC Western Maryland's Inpatient Rehab Unit is seeking a Casual (As-Needed) Registered Nurse to support our team!

This is a Casual (As-needed) position. Learn about the casual shift requirements during your interview.

Candidates will be placed in appropriate job title based on experience. Minimum casual rate is $38.60/hr.

Our Comprehensive Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit (CIRU) is a Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) accredited medical program that identifies the scope and value of interdisciplinary functional rehabilitation services. The CIRU is a unit with 13 private rooms, dedicated to providing collaborative rehabilitative services (OT/PT/Speech) for individuals with physical, functional, swallowing, communication, or cognitive impairments. The CIRU uses an interdisciplinary team approach to patient services and provides 24-hour rehabilitation nursing care to all patients.

Responsibilities:

• Models safe work hours, time management, and a healthy lifestyle.
• Communicates with peers and management any safety hazards identified in the workplace.
• Demonstrates knowledge of adult learning principles (and/or teaching children if applicable) and applies in teaching of patients, families, students, and new staff.
• Provides detailed and appropriate teaching to patients and families to effectively guide them through the episode of care as well as transition to another level of care and/or home.
• Supports the development of students, new staff, and colleagues, may serve as a preceptor.
• Creates an environment of open dialogue, inquiry, and continuous development by asking for feedback and improving practice.
• Applies the nursing process within the framework of Relationship Based Care to create a healing environment.
• Formulates daily goals and a plan of care for patients that involves the patient as a partner and considers the individual needs of the patient in a holistic manner.
• Patient documentation is comprehensive and promotes communication between caregivers.
• Incorporates national professional organization as well as business unit and health system's goals to improve patient safety, quality, and satisfaction.
• Actively participates in unit-based shared governance, goal setting and supports the change and transition process to improve quality of care and the practice environment.
• Serves as a highly engaged and full partner on the care team and responds willingly to care team members' needs for assistance and partnership.
• Identifies opportunities for quality improvement to colleagues and management.
• Takes personal responsibility in improving patient satisfaction with the quality of care and service.
• Utilizes research and evidence-based practice to support improvement in clinical care identifies research issues or articles related to clinical specialty or areas of interest, discusses opportunities for quality improvement at multidisciplinary rounds, and influences patients' plans of care.

• Minimum 1 year experience.
• BSN preferred.
• Ability to establish and maintain positive, caring relationships with executives, managers, physicians, non-physician providers, ancillary and support staff, other departments, and patients/families.
• Ability to work productively and effectively within a complex environment, handle multiple/changing priorities and specialized equipment.
• Good clinical judgment with critical thinking, analytical and problem solving abilities required as related to various aspects of patient care. Critical thinking skills necessary to exercise and to lead others in application of the nursing process.
  Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:
  
  
• Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
• Registered Nurse (RN)

*Current licensure either in the state where the facility is located or, if the facility is in a state covered by the multistate Nursing Licensure Compact (NLC) agreement, a multistate license issued by a participating NLC state. Hires and current employees working on an out-of-state NLC license who later change their residency to the state where the facility is also located will have 60 days upon changing their residency to apply for licensure within that state.