Outpatient Services: Monday - Friday
Inpatient Services: Operates 7 days a week, including holidays.
Staff members are integral to both inpatient and outpatient operations and participate in a rotating schedule that includes 10-hour shifts for weekend and holiday inpatient coverage. A weekend shift involves working both Saturday and Sunday, with a compensatory weekday off provided in the week preceding and the week following the worked weekend. On average, staff can expect to work one weekend per month and one to two holidays annually. This structure allows for extended time off during the week.
GENERAL OVERVIEW:
The Registered Nurse assesses human responses and plans, implements and evaluates nursing care for individuals or families for whom the nurse is responsible. The Registered Nurse is fully responsible for all actions as a licensed nurse and is accountable to patients for the quality of care delivered.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
The registered nurse provides leadership in a professional practice setting.
Team player who contributes to building the team by helping others succeed through role modeling and mentoring.
Considers maintenance of a safe environment, patient condition, complexity of the intervention and predictability of the outcome.
Provides peers with both verbal and written feedback regarding clinical practice and role performance.
Shares knowledge and skills with peers and colleagues.
Participates on interdisciplinary team to evaluate clinical care or health services.
Assesses patient reports/records change of condition and notifies physician and/or supervisor and intervenes appropriately and documents accordingly.
Inpatient Responsibilities:
Provides activity progression for patients in the hospital utilizing available medical data, patient status and current medication regimen; updates activity progression according to patient response and activity pathway. Recognizes contraindications to activity and abnormal patient responses. Provides feedback to medical professionals and physicians as appropriate.
Enters initial assessment, daily progression and education information into patient's
electronic medical record.
Provides appropriate education, including post-discharge instruction, to patients and family members.
Implements concepts of cardiac secondary prevention. Performs other duties as assigned or required.
Outpatient Responsibilities:
Performs assessment of patients and develops plan of care with other staff. Prepares or adjusts the individualized exercise prescription for each patient based on Functional Capacity Assessment or GXT results and M.D. recommendations. Monitors patients for inappropriate response to exercise. Works collaboratively with all team members to review each patient's progress regularly.
Performs exercises demonstrating proper body position and correct use of equipment. Supervises all exercise activity. Monitors patient using telemetry, blood pressure equipment, pulse oximetry and clinical assessment skills and responses to abnormal conditions.
Provides patient/family knowledge of health status, assesses readiness for discharge from program and supportive services needed. Enters initial and daily assessment data into patient's electronic medical record. Maintains equipment and monitor devices in appropriate working condition and reports problems to appropriate supportive staff.
Maintains a safe patient environment at all times.
Immediately reports changes in patient condition to physicians. Assists with emergency care accordingly. Follows policies and procedures and standard of care related to cardiopulmonary rehab. Provides educational information individually and in group settings.
Performs other duties as assigned or required.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Required
Act 34 Criminal Background Clearance Certificate
Act 33 Child Abuse Clearance Certificate
Act 73 FBI Fingerprinting Criminal Background Clearance Certificate
Current State of PA RN licensure OR Current multi-state licensure through the enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC).
CPR certification
2 years of Cardiac nursing experience with cardiac monitoring
Preferred
Certification in area of specialty
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