As our Rehabilitation Nurse, you will help high-acuity patients restore their health so they can care for themselves at home and resume their lives with family.

Every day you will utilize a wide variety of nursing skills and provide comprehensive patient and family education. You will be expected to advocate for patient needs, deliver tailored care, and embrace a dynamic, non-routine environment.

To be successful in this role, you must possess a wide range of nursing skills, an upbeat demeanor, and a commitment to patient advocacy.

• Assesses patient and initiates Nursing Assessment. Identifies problems and formulates plan of care within the number of hours standard on the unit, ensuring that physician orders are implemented promptly and accurately. Care plan demonstrates us of nursing diagnosis, planned outcomes, and nursing judgement related to patient/family needs. Initiates discharge plan.
• Identifies deviations from expected vital signs and lab tests; documents, reports and follows through on abnormal findings with physicians/nurses. Documents nursing assessments and interventions accurately, clearly and concisely, evaluates and documents patient response and outcome to nursing interventions, and gives clear, concise, complete reports on patients.
• Medication administration: Demonstrates knowledge of dosage, route, action, side effects and contraindication of medications. Administers medication and narcotics following hospital policies and procedures. Identifies drug interactions, knows antidotes/treatment for medication overdose and antidotes/treatment for medication infiltration. Calculates dosages accurately; double checks with RN regarding insulin. Properly dilutes medications for individual dose. Documents medication administration appropriately.
• Sets priorities, organizes and completes care for assigned patients within shift; demonstrates ability to reorganize and reprioritize workload to meet changes in unit activity. Independently makes decisions; seek assistance in critical, complex situations; gives pertinent, accurate, concise, organized report; documents on record. Is cost conscious; i.e., efficiently uses supplies, adheres to patient chargeable billing system.; performs within staffing guidelines as defined by the classification system. Adapts behaviors based upon guidelines of peer and Nurse Manager/Supervisor evaluations. Maintains confidentiality of patient related issues; intervenes to protect patient confidentiality; reports errors in practice standards to nursing management. Is accountable to standards set forth in the State Nurse Practice Act, California state law, by other regulatory agencies including TJC, and by professional nursing associations.
• Follows through on less predictable problems, refers to other appropriate disciplines, updates care plans, reviews target dates and documents progress of patient towards goals involving patient/family in care, establishes teaching plans with patient/family, coordinates discharge plans, attends physician rounds on patients, and organizes and participates in patient care conferences, using information to provide continuity of patient care.
• Patients/families: Anticipates educational needs of patient and family; plans and imparts knowledge to meet the needs. Instructs and adapts to patient/family's level of understanding; provides written resource material. Documents instruction and patient/family responses to education activities. Updates nursing care plan based on analysis of patient's response to instruction. Collaborates with multi disciplines in planning patient education. Participates in discharge planning.

Required

• Six months current medical/surgical nursing in an acute care setting or speciality area experience
• Registered Nurse: CA RN License
• Basic Life Support - CPR BLS, within 30 Days 
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support - ACLS, within 30 Days 

Preferred

• Certified Rehabilitation RN - CRRN

Founded in 1961, Dignity Health - Arroyo Grande Community Hospital is a 65-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Arroyo Grande, California. Serving over 90,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including, emergency care, and orthopedics. Additionally, Arroyo Grande Community Hospital has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and has the only inpatient Acute Rehabilitation Center between Salinas and Santa Barbara.