Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital Fort Smith is a joint venture partnership between Kindred Healthcare and Mercy. This brand new state of the art, 50 bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital provides care for adults recovering from conditions such as stroke, neurological disease, injury to the brain or spinal cord and other debilitating illnesses or injuries. Kindred and Mercy are also partners for rehabilitation hospitals in Oklahoma City, St. Louis and Springfield, Missouri.

With more than 25 standalone inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) across a dozen states, Kindred Hospital Rehabilitation Services (KHRS) is a partner of choice for many major hospital systems in the creation and success of joint-venture operations that outperform in both clinical and financial outcomes. We bring proven rehabilitation management and services expertise that benefits our partners as well as the nearly 50,000 IRF patients we see each year who seek to recover and get home quickly from any of a number of conditions, including stroke, brain injury, spinal cord injury, orthopedic injury, neurological conditions, amputation and trauma.

JOB SUMMARY:

The Charge Nurse is a registered nurse who works in coordination with nursing leadership. The Charge Nurse is the first line support for staff, physicians and other related providers on clinical issues and provides assessment, prioritization and direction of activities to meet the challenging demands of the hospital units. Following the direction of the Chief Nursing Officer, he or she assumes accountability for fostering the established professional practice and care delivery models through directing, coaching and mentoring the nursing staff. The Charge Nurse Implement's unit specific strategies as well as colleague specific practice remediation that results in achieving specific clinical quality and patient safety outcomes. This role also collaborates with the Chief Nursing Officer on clinical development (employee relations, individual behaviors, physician relationships, etc.) and is the clinical support for the department when the Chief Nursing Officer is unavailable.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Job Specific:

Completes routine audits to assure accurate and timely documentation in Cerner and UDS in order to meet compliance standards.

Assists the Chief Nursing Officer in annual evaluations by providing feedback on clinical performance.

Identifies educational opportunities for the nursing staff based on clinical needs identified and verbalized by nursing staff.

Educates and monitors all staff regarding accurate and complete FIM documentation to capture accurate burden of care.

Assists in FIM/GG education for licensed nursing staff.

Acts as key player in daily stand up clinical meeting to communicate/identify patient status.

Acts as a clinical resource and mentor for nurses in caring for medically complex patients in the facility.

Assists nursing staff with patient/family teaching needs. Coordinates educational resources to help decrease readmissions to acute care hospital within 30 days of discharge.

Provides UDS documentation/orientation training for all new licensed nursing personnel.

Conducts scheduled remediation sessions for nursing staff with identified documentation deficiencies.

Participates in Continuous Quality and Performance Improvement (CQPI).

Ensures the nursing department staff performs all aspects of patient care in an environment that optimizes patient safety.

Assures and assists with nursing participation in interdisciplinary team conferences.

Assists in making nursing staff assignments, based on patient acuity and competency for staff.

Adheres to staffing matrix

Performs timely and accurate FIM/GG assessments.

May need to take a partial or full assignment based on staffing matrix.

Other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Graduate of accredited registered nurse program with current licensure in the state, BSN preferred.
• Current Basic Cardiac Life Support required.
• Mandatory child and adult abuse certificate required
• Certified Rehabilitation Registered Nurse (CRRN) preferred.
• Minimum of two years of experience in rehabilitative or acute care setting and/or demonstrates leadership ability.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, coordinate, evaluate and direct activities of clinical personnel; effective oral and written communication skills, in English with additional languages preferred; proficiency in basic computer skills required.