The Registered Nurse in the Rehabilitation Unit provides direct patient care through assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of nursing interventions. They collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to coordinate care, monitor patient conditions, administer medications, and educate patients and families. This role requires critical thinking, adherence to nursing standards, and strong communication to ensure quality and safety in patient rehabilitation.
RN, Rehabilitation Unit PRN
Provides direct patient care to patients using the nursing process in accordance with applicable scope and standards of practice.
Reports to: The Post Acute Director
FLSA: Non-exempt
Education: Associate’s degree Required;Bachelor’s degree Preferred ; Graduate of a Credited Nursing Program
Licenses: Applicants should have a current state RN license or a current multistate compact license and possess an associate orbachelor’s degree from an accredited nursing school.
Certifications: American Heart Association BCLS; New employees that have BLS certification from another organization than American Heart Association (i.e. American Red Cross) have 30 days to complete American Heart Association version.
Required Skills
Requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision. Must be able to work in a stressful environment and take appropriate action.
Essential Functions
Performs plan of care intervention, including medication administration, specimen collection, clinical treatments, as well as other medical care treatment.
Documents patient care given.
Monitors, records, and communicates patient condition as appropriate to care team, physician, patient, and family.
Assists patients with performing activities of daily living, including personal hygiene, elimination, nutrition, and ambulation.
Collaborates as needed across disciplines to coordinate patient care, including patient transfer, discharge, referral and spiritual/psychosocial support needs.
Evaluates learning needs of patient and/or family and provides patient/family education appropriate to age, culture, condition, and circumstances.
Works as an advocate for the physical and emotional well-being of the patient.
The Registered Nurse assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates care for a given population based upon age specific and cultural needs. This is done in a collaborative multidisciplinary approach embracing quality and safety.
Assures quality of care by measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments; following hospital philosophies and standards of care set by Arizona State Board of Nursing, , and other governing agency regulations.
Coordinates the delivery of patient care for the Rehab Unit, facilitates problem solving with staff members and communicates necessary issues to nursing administration and the Program Manager.
Every effort has been made to make this job description as complete as possible. However, it in no way states or implies that these are the only duties the incumbent will be required to perform. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or is a logical assignment to the position. This position description does not restrict the right of management to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities with and without notice.
To perform this job, an individual must perform each essential function satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation.
registered nurse, rehabilitation nursing, patient care, medication administration, nursing process, critical thinking, patient education, clinical treatments, nursing standards, post-acute care
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