Day Hab RN - Wakefield, MA

Details of the position include:

Title: Registered Nurse

Program: Day Habilitation Facility

Location: Wakefield, MA

Schedule: 8:00 am – 4:00 pm, Mon-Fri

Start Date: 9/22

Salary: $55/hr

Responsibilities:

• Utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care.
• Performs focused interview to identify specific patients needs.
• Assess signs and symptoms indicating physiologic and psychosocial changes in the patient’s condition. 
• Collects, analyzes, and interprets data and information from health care members and documents actual and/or potential nursing diagnoses. 
• Documents the patient’s plan of care using identified nursing diagnoses, expected patient outcomes, and selected nursing interventions. 
• Identifies and prioritizes actions based upon patient care requirements. 
• Monitors consistency between patient plan of care and actions of medical staff. 
• Performs interventions according to identified priorities, plan of care, and the hospital policies and patient care outcome standard. 
• Provides a safe, comfortable and therapeutic patient environment. 
• Initiates and evaluates patient and/or family education. 
• Revises the plan of care according to evaluation, changes in medical plan of care, and effective/ineffective nursing interventions. 
• Documents patient’s response to nursing and other interventions. 

Requirements:

• Will consider new grads!
• Current Registered Nurse License for the state in which the nurse practices.
• Full command of the English language, both verbal and written. 
• Current Health Certificate (per facility contract or state regulation). 
• Current PPD or Chest X-Ray. 
• One year prior professional nursing experience preferred. 12/30/2010 Page 2 of 2 RN – Clinic Site 
• Current BLS card. 
• Successful completion of testing process 
• Successful completion of background screening and hiring process.