Registered Nurse- Spinal Cord Innovation Center- Night Shift, Full Time
About The Position
The Registered Nurse provides individualized, age-specific nursing assessment and care for assigned patients. The role uses advanced assessment skills and medical data to formulate nursing diagnoses, develop individualized care plans, and provide and coordinate comprehensive nursing care. The nurse instructs patients and significant others about care, disease or illness, expected outcomes, and home care. The nurse supports Shirley Ryan AbilityLab’s mission and philosophy by striving for excellence, contributing to team efforts, and showing respect and compassion for patients, families, colleagues, and others. The role also demonstrates the organization’s core attributes of communication, accountability, flexibility and adaptability, judgment and problem solving, and customer service, along with its values of hope, compassion, discovery, collaboration, and commitment to excellence.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing or Master of Science in Nursing from an accredited program, or an accredited Associate Degree in Nursing with a commitment to complete a BSN or MSN within two years.
- Illinois license to practice as a registered nurse.
- Current CPR or BLS certification from the American Heart Association or American Red Cross.
- Understanding of growth and development across infant, child, adolescent, young adult, middle-aged adult, and geriatric populations.
- Ability to interpret growth and development information to ensure patient needs are met.
- Effective and timely verbal, non-verbal, and written communication skills.
- Ability to take ownership of service to customers, the team, and the organization; achieve goals; and resolve problems.
- Willingness to adapt to changing work demands and environments.
- Critical-thinking skills and sound judgment to monitor and respond to patient needs or changes in condition.
- Ability to anticipate, assess, and address patient needs.
- Ability to transfer and position patients, including lifting up to 35 pounds.
Responsibilities
- Provide professional nursing care, including specialized treatments, prescribed medications, and coordination of patient care with other departments.
- Collect physiological, psychosocial, and functional data and use evidence-based techniques and instruments to formulate nursing diagnoses.
- Assist physicians during examinations and treatments.
- Interpret information from health team members to formulate nursing diagnoses and integrate findings into written assessments.
- Assess patients, identify changes in status, establish care priorities, and identify crisis situations when needed.
- Implement interventions consistent with the care plan and interdisciplinary treatment plan, evaluate progress toward goals, and modify the plan as indicated.
- Inform patients and significant others about inpatient care, expected outcomes, home care instructions, and referrals to appropriate health agencies and resources.
- Prepare and provide reports on patient care plans to health team members, including completing assignment sheets, explaining care plans, and documenting care.
- Collect and report pertinent physiological, psychological, and functional data based on the patient’s plan of care or needs.
- Review and evaluate SRAlab patient-care policies and procedures and make recommendations to support comprehensive care.
- Perform other duties that may be assigned in the best interest of SRAlab.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits program described as competitive with industry peers in the organization’s geographic locations; benefits and eligibility may vary by position.
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Job Type
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