Registered Nurse- Spinal Cord Innovation Center- Night Shift, Full Time
About The Position
The Registered Nurse provides individualized, age-specific nursing assessment and comprehensive care for patients at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab’s Spinal Cord Innovation Center. The role includes developing nursing diagnoses and care plans, delivering and coordinating nursing interventions, monitoring patient progress, and adjusting care as indicated. The nurse also educates patients and significant others about care, expected outcomes, illness, and home-care instructions, and coordinates with physicians and other health-team members. The nurse is expected to support Shirley Ryan AbilityLab’s mission and philosophy and demonstrate its core attributes and values, including communication, accountability, flexibility and adaptability, judgment and problem solving, customer service, hope, compassion, discovery, collaboration, and commitment to excellence.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science 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, and ability to apply related information to patient needs.
- Effective, timely verbal, non-verbal, and written communication skills.
- Ability to take ownership for serving patients, the team, and the organization; achieving goals; and resolving problems.
- Willingness to adapt to changing work demands and environments.
- Demonstrated critical-thinking skills and ability to make sound judgments when monitoring and responding 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 using evidence-based techniques and instruments to formulate nursing diagnoses.
- Assist physicians during examinations and treatments.
- Interpret information from health-team members and incorporate it into written nursing assessments and diagnoses.
- Assess patients, identify changes in status, establish care priorities, and recognize crisis situations when needed.
- Implement interventions consistent with the plan of care and interdisciplinary treatment plan; evaluate progress and modify the plan as indicated.
- Educate patients and significant others about inpatient care, expected outcomes, home-care instructions, and relevant agencies and resources.
- Prepare and communicate reports on patient care plans, including completing assignment sheets, explaining care plans, and documenting care.
- Collect and report relevant physiological, psychological, and functional data based on the care plan or patient needs.
- Review and evaluate patient-care policies and procedures and make recommendations to support comprehensive care.
- Perform other duties assigned in the best interest of Shirley Ryan AbilityLab.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits program described as competitive with industry peers in the company’s geographic locations; eligibility and benefits may vary by position.
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