Staff RN- Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation
$78,894–$78,894 year
On-siteCape May Court House, New Jersey, United States
Job Summary
Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate nursing care for cardiac, pulmonary, and SET patients, anticipating needs and resolving concerns. Design and execute individual exercise programs per AACVPR/AHA guidelines and physician recommendations while monitoring patients, reporting inappropriate responses, and terminating exercise as needed. Coordinate discharge planning with the healthcare team and advocate for patient well-being through effective teaching and documentation of all interventions, goals, and outcomes. Requires current RN licensure in New Jersey, ACLS/CPR certification, and three years of critical care or coronary care experience.
Required Qualifications
- Consistently demonstrates the ability to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate nursing care of all patients based on patients' specific age group
- Anticipates patient needs and consistently resolves patient concerns
- Evaluates and reassesses interventions over time to assure best outcomes for the cardiac, pulmonary and SET (PAD) patients
- Plans and implements non-standardized nursing interventions, specifically individual exercise programs in accordance with AACVPR/AHA guidelines and physician recommendations
- Plans for the patient discharge by working with the health care team to ensure timely discharge
- Always uses a pro-active approach to patient care to meet and exceed patient and family needs
- Anticipates and responds effectively to changing patient conditions
- Demonstrates effective teaching skills and always engages patient and family
- Consistently assesses patient and family learning needs during program
- Evaluates and effectiveness of teaching and revises appropriately
- Documents all teaching, including patient/family response
- Consistently advocates for the well-being of the patient
- Accountable for nursing care provided to assigned patients through admission and transfer up to patient discharge
- Augments initial nursing assessment data including biophysical, psychosocial, environmental, self care, discharge planning factors with experimental knowledge to refine individualized treatment plan
- Consistently documents patient evaluation, departmental data, goals, patient notes, individual treatment plan (ITP), outcomes, and patient exercise sessions in a timely manner with a high degree of accuracy
- Integrates verbal and nonverbal behaviors exhibited by patient and significant others to make nursing decisions
- Obtains compiles, interprets, incorporates and completes patient data into monthly individualized treatment plan (ITP) in a timely manner for the patient which reflects full range of needs, including physical/functional, vocation, nutritional, psychosocial, and emotional and education needs
- Performs rapid observational assessment to determine changing priorities
- Monitors patients, reports inappropriate responses
- Terminates exercise as needed
- Updates staff/physicians using SBAR
- Graduate of an approved school of professional nursing
- Current RN licensure in the State of New Jersey
- ACLS/CPR certification
- Three years of critical care/coronary care experience
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in Cardiopulmonary Rehab preferred
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