Advanced Practice Nurse for Immediate Care

As the Nurse Manager, you will have the opportunity to provide direct leadership of daily nursing unit operations within an Inpatient Rehabilitation hospital, ensuring safe, efficient, and patient centered care delivery. This role is focused on frontline execution, staff presence, coaching, accountability, workforce support, and consistency of nursing practice. The Nurse Manager plays a key role in supporting bedside teams, strengthening workflows, and ensuring nursing standards are carried out each day.

Unit Operations and Daily Execution

Leads daily nursing unit operations to ensure safe staffing, effective patient flow, and smooth shift-to-shift operations.

Maintains visible leadership presence on patient care units, providing real time support to staff and RN supervisors.

Rounds routinely on units to identify barriers, workflow concerns, environmental issues, and patient care needs.

Supports reliable execution of nursing care processes including hourly rounding, bedside shift report, and patient communication standards.

Oversees unit readiness related to supplies, equipment, cleanliness, and organization.

Provides direct patient care support during periods of high volume, staffing gaps, or urgent operational need to maintain safe and effective unit operations. This is not a routine expectation but may be required based on patient care demands.

Staff Education, Coaching, and Accountability

Provides direct coaching, mentoring, and performance feedback to nursing staff, nursing assistants, and charge nurses.

Reinforces standards of practice through observation, education, and just in time training.

Address performance concerns promptly through coaching, counseling, and follow-up.

Clinical Quality and Patient Safety

Oversees consistent execution of fall prevention, skin integrity, bowel and bladder programs, medication safety, infection prevention, and patient safety practices.

Conducts audits, observations, and follow up related to documentation, care delivery, and regulatory standards.

Leads immediate response and follow up for incidents, patient concerns, and service recovery opportunities.

Ensures ongoing readiness for surveys through routine monitoring of unit-based standards.

Assists with scheduling oversight, attendance management, overtime control, and productive staffing practices.

Participates in interviewing, hiring, and retention planning for frontline staff.

Oversees timecard review, payroll validation, and approval processes to ensure accuracy of hours worked, proper use of pay codes, and compliance with organizational standards.

Partners with the CNO and staffing coordinator to monitor overtime, agency utilization, and labor performance using payroll and scheduling data.

Partners with therapy, case management, physicians, pharmacy, and support departments to remove barriers impacting patient care.

Communicates unit priorities, patient concerns, staffing issues, and operational needs to leadership.

Facilitates clear communication across shifts to support continuity of care.

Serves as a resource for staff, patients, and families regarding unit operations and nursing concerns.

Registered Nurse licensure required.

Bachelor’s degree in nursing preferred.

Inpatient Rehabilitation experience preferred.

Strong knowledge of staffing operations, nursing workflows, clinical quality, and frontline leadership.

Demonstrated success in coaching teams, improving accountability, and leading change.

Ability to work flexible hours based on operational needs.

Join our team and you will experience a total rewards package to support your health, life, career and retirement, including:

A comprehensive health and wellness package including medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage

You can choose from a variety of medical coverage plans that best fit your lifestyle. You also have the option to enroll in additional perks such as 401k, life insurance, and disability plans.

Orlando Rehabilitation Hospital is an EEO employer – M/F/Vets/Disabled

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