What are the responsibilities and job description for the Registered Nurse (RN) - Full Time Day Shift position at VSC HBO LLC?
HealthBridge has a day shift opening for Registered Nurses. We are looking for passionate professionals with high ethical standards to join our rapidly growing interdisciplinary team!
As a valued member of the HealthBridge team, you will:
1. Direct care to team members
2. Act as a patient liaison and advocate.
3. Assure proper documentation utilizing the EMR including documenting assessments, initiating care plans, formulating, updating, and revising treatment plans and goals.
4. Participate in discharge planning including identifying home educational needs and instructing and educating patients for ADLs.
5. Assure orders are processed including checking and signing off orders, accepting telephone orders from physicians and ensuring documentation of advanced directives.
6. Make initial and continuous patient assessment including communicating the interpretation of lab data, EKGs, and other tests. Consult with physician manage patients in-house transfer through system, review drug therapy and coordinate administration of treatments between disciplines.
7. Coordinate all aspects of patient care, including planning, intervention, education, and evaluation including age-specific knowledge, phlebotomy, IV access and staple removal.
8. Initiate physician orders, participate in Code Blue response, and provide patient education.
9. Ensure patient handoff to other disciplines through verbal or written communication.
11. Assist in providing adequate staffing and participate in policy development.
12. Function as a charge nurse, assigning care of patients to caregivers according to policy.
13. Participate in education and staff development through direct learning, teaching, orientation and peer review.
14. Perform duties and responsibilities in a manner consistent with our mission and values.
HealthBridge offers the highest-quality complex care, transitional care and high-intensity rehab needed to serve our patients at every stage of their recovery. As a network of premier skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities, we specialize in addressing the many complex medical challenges patients face during recovery and rehabilitation for brain injuries, spinal cord injuries and for other medically complex illnesses. It starts with a strong medical team led by expert physicians, skilled nursing staff and other well- trained health professionals, which includes physical, occupational, speech, respiratory and neuropsychological therapists. HealthBridge leads the skilled nursing industry in the medical and therapeutic management of complex care patients. Our HealthBridge name is really a reflection of how we support our patients. We are the bridge on a patients journey between the hospital and recovery. We provide that critical transition to optimal independence.
Qualifications:Education:
Current licensure as a RN in the state of facility required.
BLS Certification
Salary : $38 - $57