Registered Nurse 7a-7p - Whittier Rehab Hospital TCU

Whittier Rehabilitation Hospital - Transitional Care Unit
Registered Nurse needed for our 20 bed transitional care unit
New Grads Welcome!
PT 36 hours/week: 7a-7p and every other weekend
Base Pay: $40.00-$44.00 per hour plus applicable diffs
$5,000 Sign On Bonus

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.
• Experience working in a Skilled Nursing environment a plus

• 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