Registered Nurse PRN job description

$7,500 Sign On Bonus!

A stronger bond with patients

A stronger impact on recovery

BE THE CONNECTION.

As a registered nurse (RN), you’ll be the connection between compassionate care and the real, positive results your patients are striving to achieve. Use your skills within our inpatient rehabilitation setting to provide the nursing perspective and attention to detail that our highly specialized, integrated team approach requires. Elevate expectations and outcomes with national post-acute care leader Encompass Health.

What Makes Encompass Health Careers Different—and Better:

Working at Encompass Health means being part of something special: A team that is passionate about making an impact on patients’ lives each day. Unlike the typical hospital setting, Encompass Health offers you the unique opportunity to walk alongside patients on their road to recovery from stroke, spinal cord injuries, neurological disorders, joint replacements, multiple trauma and cardiac/pulmonary conditions. As you help patients achieve goals and regain independence, you can form significant relationships with them and celebrate the successes they experience along the way.

Our culture of compassion and collaboration is founded on more than just the care we provide our patients; it is expressed in the values we live. We encourage and empower each employee to keep learning and growing by providing the resources to deliver a better way to care. At Encompass Health, you’ll find something decidedly different and more satisfying: A career that is challenging, inspiring and rewarding. Maximize your talent and join a team that is committed to setting the standard for better healthcare with this engaging opportunity:

REGISTERED NURSE (RN), INPATIENT REHABILITATION

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(BONUS INFORMATION, IF APPLICABLE)

As a registered nurse at Encompass Health channel the full extent of your knowledge, skills, ambition, and experience on a daily basis. Inspire our patients to progress each day as you:

• Help patients by supervising care and treatments, leading patient assessments, creating personalized plans of care, targeting patient concerns and offering the best solutions.

• View each patient with a strong sense of empathy, listen closely to their personal stories, and get to know each one’s physical, mental and emotional needs.

• See patients progress due to the effort you and your team put forth each day and build rewarding relationships with them during stays that last from two to four weeks.

• Spend each day helping someone to regain control of their lives with the goal of being discharged from the hospital and back to their community, families and friends.

Credentials:

• Current RN licensures appropriate to state regulations required.

• CPR certification required (ACLS preferred).

• CRRN certification preferred.

• One or more years of experience in an inpatient rehabilitation hospital setting preferred.

Enjoy competitive compensation and benefits that start on day one, including:

• Benefits that begin when you do.

• Affordable medical, dental and vision plans provided to meet the needs of full and part-time employees and their families.

• Generous paid time off that increases with tenure.

• Tuition reimbursement and continuing education opportunities.

• Company-matching 401(k) and employee stock-purchase plans.

• Flexible spending and health savings accounts.

About us:

Helping patients regain hope and independence, Encompass Health is a national leader in post-acute care. We operate rehabilitation hospitals and offer home health and hospice care in 36 states as well as Puerto Rico. Following the Encompass Way, we are driven by our core values: We proudly set the standard, lead with empathy, do what’s right, focus on the positive, and remain stronger together.

Realize the powerful difference you can make. Take this opportunity to join our team.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Address: 5406 Colgate Street, Lubbock 79416
Shift: Day Job
Schedule: PRN / Pool / As Needed

Almost Family
is currently hiring
Registered Nurses
for
Private Duty
Patient Care (Starts of Care/Supervisory visits) in
Boca Raton
!


Loyalty Bonus Flexible Schedules Weekly Pay Earn PTO while working 32+ Hours/week! One Patient at a Time- In Home Visits *Non OASIS Visits

As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will render professional nursing care to patients in their home by assessing, developing, implementing, and evaluating home nursing care needs of assigned patients. The RN will also educate and advise patients and their families in how to get the most from their treatment programs.


Almost Family,
a part of LHC Group, is the preferred post-acute care partner for hospitals, physicians and families nationwide. From home health and hospice care to long-term acute care and community-based services, we deliver high-quality, cost-effective care that empowers patients to manage their health at home. Hospitals and health systems around the country have partnered with LHC Group to deliver patient-centered care in the home. More hospitals, physicians and families choose LHC Group, because we are united by a single, shared purpose:
It's all about helping people.



Essential Functions



Must demonstrate good clinical reasoning and judgement as it relates to assessing ADL performance, cognition and home safety. Must be comfortable with the use point of care technology when completing assessments.


Education & Experience


•Current, unencumbered RN licensure in state of practice.
•Minimum of 2 years of home health experience or 2 years nursing experience in an equivalent area of practice serving the older adult population.
•Has, or be willing to obtain, a professional liability insurance policy.
•Current driver's license, vehicle insurance, and access to a dependable vehicle or public transportation.

Job DescriptionOchsner is the leading clinical oncology program in the Gulf South Region. For over 75 years, we have been dedicated to cancer research and new cancer treatment developments, with more clinical trials than anywhere else in the region. In the past year, Ochsner has provided both personalized and state-of-the-art care to more than 22,000 cancer patients. Our multi-disciplinary approach, advanced technologies, and focus on clinical research and our Precision Cancer Therapies Program, define our approach to cancer care. Over the last 5 years, Ochsner Health has invested more than $135M in facilities and technology across the Ochsner Cancer Institute reflecting our commitment to leading cancer care in the region and beyond. These projects have included a 115,000 ft2 expansion to the Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center, the new St Tammany Cancer Center in Covington, and the expansion of the Baton Rouge Cancer Center. In this position the nurse supervises and provides nursing care to patients with cancer. Administer chemotherapy, targeted therapy, and immunotherapy to cancer patients and other specialty patients requiring these medications. We will pay for you to take the chemotherapy and biotherapy certification course offered by ONS if you are not already certified. Monitor patient's condition and create symptom management plans with the physicians. Monitor and treat life-threatening adverse reactions. Administer fluids, antibiotics, and blood products to patients. Participate in the care of patients enrolled in phase 1, 2, and 3 clinical trials. Provide care and maintenance for central line catheters. Draw labs from both central and peripherally. Create stress management plans with the patients and their families once they receive their cancer diagnosis. Recognize and triage cancer-related issues and complex laboratory values. Understand and manage complex treatment plan schedules. Provide supportive resources and educations to patients and their families based on the patients' diagnosis and treatment. Teach both the patients and their families about what to expect throughout their treatment and survivorship. Demonstrates collaboration, professionalism, and effective communication in all interactions with physicians, the administrative team.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

This job description is a summary of the primary duties and responsibilities of the job and position. It is not intended to be a comprehensive or all-inclusive listing of duties and responsibilities. Contents are subject to change at the company's discretion.
Education
Required - Registered nurse diploma.
Preferred - Associate's degree in nursing.

Work Experience
Required - None.

Certifications
Required - Current registered nurse (RN) license in state of practice.
Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from the American Heart Association.
Preferred - Certification in clinical specialty area.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities (KSAs)
Proficiency in using computers, software, and web-based applications. Effective verbal and written communication skills and ability to present information clearly and professionally to varying levels of individuals throughout the patient care process. Good organizational and time management skills. Ability to demonstrate good judgement and be self-directed. Good interpersonal skills.
Job Duties
Effectively uses the nursing process in the delivery of patient care. Assesses learning needs and implement teaching strategies appropriate for the diverse needs of the patient, family and other groups or disciplines. Communicates, delegates and manages nursing team resources (human and fiscal) properly and serves as a leader and partner on the Interdisciplinary Team. Uses data, information and knowledge to evaluate and promote change in order to achieve optimal outcomes. Embraces concepts and behaviors that enhance customer satisfaction and employee morale and improvement in the profession of nursing. Performs other related duties as required.
The above statements describe the general nature and level of work only. They are not an exhaustive list of all required responsibilities, duties, and skills. Other duties may be added, or this description amended at any time.
Remains knowledgeable on current federal, state and local laws, accreditation standards or regulatory agency requirements that apply to the assigned area of responsibility and ensures compliance with all such laws, regulations and standards.

This employer maintains and complies with its Compliance & Privacy Program and Standards of Conduct, including the immediate reporting of any known or suspected unethical or questionable behaviors or conduct; patient/employee safety, patient privacy, and/or other compliance-related concerns.
The employer is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Physical and Environmental Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Heavy Work - Exerting 50 to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 25 to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or 10 to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects. (Constantly: activity or condition exists 2/3 or more of the time) to move objects. Physical demand requirements are in excess of those for Sedentary Work. Even though the weight lifted may be only a negligible amount, a job should be rated Light Work: (1) when it requires walking or standing to a significant degree; or (2) when it requires sitting most of the time but entails pushing and/or pulling of arm or leg controls; and/or (3) when the job requires working at a production rate pace entailing the constant pushing and/or pulling of materials even though the weight of those materials is negligible. NOTE: The constant stress and strain of maintaining a production rate pace, especially in an industrial setting, can be and is physically demanding of a worker even though the amount of force exerted is negligible
Duties performed routinely require exposure to blood, body fluid and tissue.
The incumbent works in a patient care area; works in an area where patients enter; works directly with patients; and/or works with specimens that could contain communicable diseases. There may be an occupational risk for exposure to communicable diseases.
Because the incumbent works within a healthcare setting, there may be occupational risk for exposure to hazardous medications or hazardous waste within the environment through receipt, transport, storage, preparation, dispensing, administration, cleaning and/or disposal of contaminated waste. The risk level of exposure may increase depending on the essential job duties of the role.