Nurse Manager

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Description

Mercy Iowa City Rehabilitation Hospital is a state-of-the-art, 40-bed inpatient acute rehabilitation hospital dedicated to the treatment and recovery of individuals who have experienced the debilitating effects of a severe injury or illness.

Our rehabilitation programs provide ongoing care and specialized treatment to patients throughout their recovery journey.

We offer customized, intense rehabilitation tailored to the individual needs of those recovering from stroke, brain injury, neurological conditions, trauma, spinal cord injury, amputation, and orthopedic injury.

Mercy Iowa City Rehabilitation Hospital strives to maximize the health, function, and quality of life of those we serve through comprehensive physical medicine and rehabilitation programs.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Provides a professional working environment for employees.
• Ensures the nursing department staff performs all aspects of patient care in an environment that optimizes patient safety and reduces the likelihood of medical/health care errors.

• Ensures appropriate documentation, including documentation of medical necessity, by staff in medical records; monitors completion and revisions to the Interdisciplinary Care Plan.

• Ensures compliance with nursing scope of practice and HIPAA.

• Enforces compliance of the nursing department with education/in-service requirements/orientation and competencies.

• Promotes rehabilitation nursing philosophy and practice; encourages staff development, including acquisition of CRRN for qualified registered nurses.

• Assists to review and evaluate risk and quality indicators, patient satisfaction results, and outcomes in order to continually improve performance and outcomes; communicates this information to the nursing department.

• May coordinate new admissions including room and staffing assignments.
• Ensures nursing attendance and participation in team conferences.
• Ensures staff completes charting timely.
• Ensures staff takes lunches when working 6 or more hours and breaks as required by law.
• Ensures staff assignments are divided among staff taking into account acuity and other factors.
• Manages staffing plans, nursing hours per patient day, and quality of work of nursing staff.
• Ensures limited agency usage and overtime hours by managing and monitoring the schedule.
• May have patient care assignment in addition to daily responsibilities.
• Coordinates and directs appropriate rehab care needs related to patient/family educational needs, barriers or continuum of care requirements.
• Serves as a clinical rehab resources for patients/families during their rehab stay.
• Coordinates, and assist as needed, with rehab specific patient/family education.
• Coordinates rehab patient care needs with front-line nursing staff, as well as, acts as a liaison between other members of the rehab team.
• Assists with rounding on patients/families.
• Assists with day to day coordination/follow-up of patient care and problem resolution.
• Assists with ensuring QI accuracy.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited Bachelors of Science in Nursing, Associate Degree in Nursing or Nursing Diploma program.

  BSN Preferred.

• Current unrestricted state licensure as Registered Nurse.
• CPR/BCLS certification.

  ACLS preferred.

• CRRN Certification preferred
• Minimum of two years of previous nursing leadership preferred.
• Minimum of two years previous rehab nursing experience preferred.
• Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrates strong problem solving and critical thinking skills.

What is your favorite Kindred Core 6 value and how have you seen it at work?

My absolute favorite Kindred core value is create fun in what you do.

Let’s face it, nursing is stressful.

Sometimes you can get a little overwhelmed.

So if you pull the team together and you plant smiles on your faces and you work together, you can create fun in what you do, and that’s what we like to do.

It is my absolute favorite thing about working there.

We as a team pull together, work together, make everybody’s day less stressful.

It’s what I really enjoy.

The nursing staff will get together for an IV club, if there’s a difficult IV stick, or a team admission.

The other services around us will always join in and give us a hand, and it just makes for a great work environment.

You should try it.

We have a ton of fun, and we help people, it’s great.

Benefits & Recognition Our goal is to offer valuable compensation and incentive programs that enables us to attract, reward, retain, and motivate highly qualified individuals.

Compensation can include bonus plans and recognition for going above & beyond.

Healthcare We offer a variety of Health Savings Account (HSA) and PPO plan options.

401(k) Plan Employees can contribute pre-tax dollars through payroll deduction.

Paid Time Off Your work/life balance is important to us.

We offer our employees a flexible Paid Time Off program.

Wellness Program We offer tools, resources and support for weight loss, stress reduction, smoking cessation and making overall healthier choices.

Community Community involvement is consistent with our company’s principles and with our mission of customer service and quality care.

Rehabilitation is the key to everything we do.

And our caring, compassionate caregivers and team members are proud to lead the way.

If you are interested in joining our team, we have opportunities that allow you to provide exceptional care and outstanding service in an environment committed to career growth and continual learning and support.

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