Rehab LPN or RN

TASKS:

• Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking appropriate action.

• Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, and note times and amounts in eMAR and patients' charts.

• Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.

• Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse and respiration.

• Provide basic patient care and treatments, such as taking temperatures and blood pressure, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas, douches, or performing catheterizations.

• Help patients with bathing, dressing, personal hygiene, moving in bed, and standing and walking.

• Supervise nurses' aides and assistants.

• Work as part of a health care team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care and implement interventions.

• Record food and fluid intake and output.

• Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other health-care team members as necessary.
• Collaborates with other members of the interdisciplinary rehabilitation team to facilitate achievement of overall goals
• Shares information about the disease processes underlying disabilities and teaches nursing techniques to help clients and their families develop the self-care skills necessary to move toward wellness on the illness-wellness continuum
• Prepares clients and their families for future self-management and decision-making responsibilities by fostering clients’ independence and goal achievement
• Reinforces the teaching done by specialists in rehabilitation and other healthcare disciplines and provides resource materials for clients’ changing needs

• Participates in the interdisciplinary team process at team conferences and other team meetings and offers input into team decision making
• Intervenes with team members and other healthcare professionals to ensure that the optimal opportunity for recovery is made available to the client, the most significant member of the rehabilitation team
• Collaborates with team members to achieve cost-effective care by utilizing appropriate clinical measures to meet emergent physical, psychosocial, and spiritual situations

• Actively listens, reflects, and guides clients and their families through the stages of the grieving process to mourn the loss of abilities and roles
• Advocates for policies and services that promote the quality of life for individuals with disabilities and participates in activities that will positively influence the community’s awareness of disabilities
• Contributes to a safe and therapeutic environment and supports activities that promote the clients’ return of function and prevent complications or chronic illness
• Intervenes on behalf of clients to ensure that medical professionals and nonmedical professionals work to maximize clients’ success when they return to work or school

• License/Certification/Registration :

        Must possess a current Licensed Practical Nurse issued by the State of Oklahoma

                          BLS Certification

                          NIH Stroke by end of Clinical Nursing Orientation

  FIM training and testing within 6 months of hire and yearly thereafter

   

   

        Experience Required:

        Successful completion of an orientation program or equivalent experience.

   

        Education:

        Graduate from an accredited practical nursing program.

   

              Special Qualifications

                     Effective verbal, written, and computer communication skills.

                    Ability to work with others as a team to ensure quality patient care.

                    Ability to demonstrate satisfactory pain management aptitude.