PRN Registered Nurse (RN) Rehabilitation

Lifepoint Health•Longview, TX

4h•Onsite

About The Position

This position provides direct patient care to patients using the nursing process in accordance with applicable scope and standards of practice. Longview Rehabilitation Hospital is a 36-bed hospital located in Longview, Texas, and is part of Lifepoint Health. Lifepoint Health is a diversified healthcare delivery network committed to making communities healthier, spanning 29 states and including 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care. The company is driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier and aims to create places where employees want to work, offering opportunities for meaningful careers that make a difference.

Requirements

Associate’s degree Required
Graduate of a Credited Nursing Program
Current RN to practice in the state of Texas
American Heart Association BCLS (New employees with BLS certification from another organization have 30 days to complete American Heart Association version)
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
Rehab experience required

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree Preferred

Responsibilities

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.
Assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates care for a given population based upon age specific and cultural needs 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 Texas 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.