About this role
Whittier Rehabilitation Hospital - Transitional Care Unit
Registered Nurse needed for our 20 bed transitional care unit
PT 36 hours/week: 7p-7a and every other weekend
Base Pay : $40.00-$44.00 per hour plus applicable diffs
Primary Responsibilities:
- Supervises and evaluates all direct resident care and initiates corrective action as necessary.
- Provides clinical supervision of nursing assistants providing direct resident care
- Assumes responsibility for compliance with federal, state and local regulations within the assigned unit.
- Ensures that all physician renewal orders and physician documentation is timely and appropriate.
- Conducts resident rounds, reporting problems to nursing supervisor and initiating corrective action.
- Identifies resident problems and emergency situations, and initiates immediate "life saving" measures within the scope of nursing practice and in accordance with advance directives.
- Administers and documents medications, enteral nutrition, and treatments per the physician's order and accurately records all care provided and observations daily.
Prerequisites:
- Graduate of an accredited RN school of Nursing.
- Current license in Massachusetts as RN.
- Knowledge of Geriatric Nursing required.
- Current certification in Basic Cardiac Life Support in accordance with American Heart Association or American Red Cross standards required.
- Knowledge of growth and development across the life span
Benefits Offered:
- 401k
- Paid Vacation, Sick and Holiday
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Hospital, Accident and Critical Illness
- Short and Long Term Disability
- Life and Supplemental Life
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Heath Savings Account