Travel Nurse RN - Rehab - $2,296 per week in Windsor, VT

Company: Lifeline Healthcare Professionals
Location: Windsor
Posted on: October 31, 2024

Job Description:

Description The goal of rehabilitation nursing is to assist individuals with a disability and/or chronic illness to attain and maintain maximum function. The rehabilitation staff nurse assists clients in adapting to an altered lifestyle, while providing a therapeutic environment for client's and their family's development. The rehabilitation staff nurse designs and implements treatment strategies that are based on scientific nursing theory related to self-care and that promote physical, psychosocial, and spiritual health. The rehabilitation staff nurse works in inpatient and outpatient settings that can be found in a range of acute to subacute rehabilitation facilities. Responsibilities --- Possesses the specialized knowledge and clinical skills necessary to provide care for people with physical disability and chronic illness. --- Coordinates educational activities and uses appropriate resources to develop and implement an individualized teaching and discharge plan with clients and their families. --- Performs hands-on nursing care by utilizing the nursing process to achieve quality outcomes for clients. --- Provides direction and supervision of ancillary nursing personnel, demonstrates professional judgment, uses problem solving techniques and time-management principles, and delegates appropriately. --- Coordinates nursing care activities in collaboration with other members of the interdisciplinary rehabilitation team to facilitate achievement of overall goals. --- Coordinates a holistic approach to meeting patient's medical, vocational, educational, and environmental needs. --- Demonstrates effective oral and written communication skills to develop a rapport with clients, their families, and health team members and to ensure the fulfilment of requirements for legal documentation and reimbursement. --- Acts as a resource and a role model for nursing staff and students and participates in activities such as nursing committees and professional organizations that promote the improvement of nursing care and the advancement of professional rehabilitation nursing. Requirements --- Current state licensure as a registered nurse --- American Heart Association BLS --- Ability to effectively communicate with patients, families, physicians and hospital staff. --- Basic computer skills. --- Professional, friendly attitude.

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