Registered Nurse, Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit

VHC Health • Arlington, VA

3d • $44 - $74 • Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse works in VHC Health’s 20-bed, CARF-accredited Inpatient Rehabilitation Center, providing direct and indirect total nursing care to assigned patients and supervising assigned personnel. The unit cares for medical/surgical patients with disabling conditions who need acute inpatient physical rehabilitation. Diagnoses may include stroke, amputations, bilateral total joint replacements, spinal cord injury, multiple trauma, traumatic brain injury, and neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, Guillain-Barré syndrome, and multiple sclerosis. The team uses multidisciplinary nursing, medical, and therapy care, with patients and their families helping establish individualized goals to restore function and quality of life.

The role requires knowledge of applicable department and hospital policies and procedures, interpretive and communication skills, and management and supervisory abilities. The nurse must be able to retrieve and present information in written, auditory, or visual formats; spoken communication is the primary means of exchanging ideas. Written, telephone, and manual dexterity skills are also required.

VHC Health is a 548-bed independent, not-for-profit health system and teaching hospital in Arlington, Virginia. It is a Level II Trauma Center and holds Magnet designation for nursing excellence.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing.
• At least one year of nursing or patient-care experience in an acute-care setting.
• Current Registered Nurse licensure through the Virginia Department of Health Professions or compact-state nursing licensure.
• BLS certification, unless current ACLS or PALS certification meets the BLS skills requirement under policy.
• Interpretive, communication, management, and supervisory skills.
• Written, telephone, and manual dexterity skills.
• Ability to communicate and present information in written, auditory, or visual formats.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct and indirect total nursing care to assigned patients.
• Supervise assigned personnel.
• Apply relevant department and hospital policies and procedures in delivering nursing care.
• Retrieve, communicate, and present information in written, auditory, or visual formats.
• Collaborate within a multidisciplinary nursing, medical, and therapy team to meet individual patient needs.

Benefits

• Medical coverage, subject to eligibility requirements.
• Dental coverage, subject to eligibility requirements.
• Vision coverage, subject to eligibility requirements.
• Wellness benefits.
• Retirement benefits.
• The employer states a commitment to wage transparency and equitable pay practices.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time