Registered Nurse - Float Pool

Registered Nurse

The Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital has been helping patients recover from complex medical conditions and injuries since 2000. The first long-term acute-care hospital (LTACH) in the region, we help patients who are too medically fragile to transfer to a skilled nursing facility, acute rehabilitation hospital or their home after a hospital stay. In addition to general rehabilitation, our team is renowned for their expertise in ventilator weaning and respiratory care.

Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Hospital Emily Howatt Pliskatt Pediatric Unit is a specialized inpatient pediatric rehabilitation leader with programs designed specifically to treat children with complex medical and congenital conditions.

Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network has opened a state-of-the-art, 76-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital that will revolutionize treatment and recovery options for people with complex medical conditions, such as stroke, spinal cord injury, brain injury and other serious injuries or illnesses. The four-story, 123,000-square-foot facility on Center Valley Parkway features all private rooms and offers world-class physical rehabilitation care to patients who are recovering from complex and catastrophic conditions. One of the most novel and exciting spaces to spur innovation in Good Shepherd's new hospital is Empower+. This first-of-its-kind space will give people with disabilities and other mobility challenges an environment where they can explore the latest advancements, like 3D printing, robotics, wearables, artificial intelligence and smart home and personal assistance devices, designed to promote healing and independence and make people's lives better.

Job Summary

Promotes and restores patients' health by completing the nursing process; collaborating with physicians and interdisciplinary team members; providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families; delegate and evaluate care assigned to LPNs and CNAs to meet patient care needs.

Essential Functions

• Identifies Patient/Resident Care Requirements
  • By establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients/residents and other persons in a position to understand care requirements.
  • Uses the nursing process as a framework to deliver care by establishing or contributing to a plan of care with the patient/resident including a teaching plan, within 24 hours of admission; establishing or contributing to prioritization of goals appropriate to the patient's/resident's age and ability to learn; estimated length of stay, medical diagnoses and discharge plan; identifying nursing care needs, writing nursing interventions and identifying educational objectives appropriate to care standards; by reassessing and documenting the effectiveness of nursing actions and the patients/residents progress toward goals as the patient's/resident's condition changes; by communicating the plan and patient/resident progress to the interdisciplinary team.
  • Delegating the plan of care to other licensed and unlicensed associates within their scope of practice
• Establishes a Compassionate Environment
  • By providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients/residents, friends, and families.
• Promotes Patient's/Resident's Independence
  • By establishing patient/resident care goals; educating patient/resident, friends, and family to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills; answering questions by applying rehabilitation principles to patients/residents served; by demonstrating competence in providing age specific care to pediatric patients/residents, adult patients and geriatric patients/residents.
• Assures Quality of Care
  • By adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient/resident care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments; following hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, State Nurse Practice Act, and other governing agency regulations; by participating in performance improvement activities; by assessing care provided to assigned patients/residents by LPNs, Nursing Assistants, agency personnel, and other associates.
• Resolves Patient/Resident Problems and Needs
  • By utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies; by utilizing established communication methods to ensure resolution of patient/resident problems and needs by communicating patient/resident status to the interdisciplinary team
• Documents Patient/Resident Care Services
  • By documenting delivery of services, changes in patient/resident condition and the patients/residents response to nursing interventions in the medical record according to policies and procedures.
• Maintains Patient/Resident Confidence and Organizational Confidentiality
  • By keeping information confidential.
• Maintains Safe and Clean Working Environment
  • By complying with procedures, rules, and regulations; calling for assistance from health care support personnel; by maintaining a clean and safe unit environment; keeping patient/resident rooms, supply rooms and hallways free from clutter; by complying with procedures, rules and regulations; by adhering to infection control policies and procedures, medication administration and storage procedures and controlled substance regulations. By maintaining compliance with professional, regulatory and governmental standards of care. By demonstrating knowledge of responsibilities in an emergency situation
• Ensures Operation of Equipment
  • Following manufacturer's instructions; troubleshooting malfunctions; entering work orders for equipment repairs; evaluating new equipment and techniques.
• Demonstrates Financial Accountability
  • Checking stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed supplies; using equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish job results. By minimizing overtime by work prioritization and delegation; recognizes and complies with RN's role in reimbursement for patient/resident care services. By identifying and providing input to nursing leadership on work methods that reduce the cost and/or time required to deliver patient/resident care. By maintaining awareness of unit budget.
• Maintains Professional and Technical Knowledge
  • By identifying personal educational needs and opportunities; attending educational workshops; completing mandatory educational requirements; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional organizations; sharing new knowledge with teams; attending unit meetings; reading unit memos; participating in committees, projects and PI activities. By maintaining responsibility for own professional development through active participation in in-services and/or continuing education programs
• Maintains a Cooperative Relationship Among Health Care Teams
  • By communicating information; responding to requests; building rapport; participating in team problem-solving methods; by communicating patient/resident care or team issues to the nursing leadership; holding each team member accountable for patient/resident and team outcomes; participate in team meetings; offering suggestions for improvement to leadership; utilizing the chain of command to present issues or concerns; demonstrate positive conflict resolution skills with all associates; treat all associates with dignity and respect.
• Contributes to Organizational Team Effort
  • By arriving on duty as scheduled, maintaining attendance, punching in and out as per Good Shepherd policy and maintaining time sheet. By demonstrating flexibility in response to change by offering to assist team members with patient care needs and unit activities that arise throughout the shift; participating in orienting new employees; meeting dress code requirements. By attending meetings as requested by organizational leaders; by positively representing the profession and organization at work and away from work; promoting and participating in organizational goals. By mentoring channels of communication among nursing shifts, disciplines, departments, and external customers. By utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies, to assure resolution of patient problems and needs.

Qualifications

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
  • Education
    • Associate's Degree in Nursing or Nursing Diploma required
    • Bachelor's Degree in Nursing preferred
  • Work Experience
    • Previous med-surg experience or rehabilitation experience preferred
    • 1-2 years of intensive care or telemetry experience preferred
  • Licenses / Certifications
    • Registered Nurse license required
    • Basic Life Support / CPR, as a healthcare provider, per the American Heart Association required
    • Advanced Cardiac Life Support/ACLS (must be acquired within the first 6 months of employment).
    • PALS certification preferred for all staff (must be acquired within the first 6 months of employment).