What are the responsibilities and job description for the INPATIENT OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST, Weekend coverage position at Northern Nevada Medical Center?
About Us
Northern Nevada Medical Center is a 124-bed acute care hospital located in Sparks, Nevada.
We value:
- Compassion: We treat everyone with kindness and warmth because we genuinely care about every patient, employee, and physician like they are family.
- Empathy: We put ourselves in our patient's shoes and deliver clinical care with a personalized touch.
- Teamwork: We foster a caring and friendly work environment to bring the best possible outcomes in our patient's lives.
- Quality: We strive to provide excellence in clinical care.
- Ethics: We conduct our business with the highest ethical and moral standards.
- Respect: We promise to honor the dignity, individuality, and rights of everyone.
- Service Excellence: We provide personalized and professional service that exceeds the expectations of those we serve.
- Innovation: We continually invest in technology and process improvements to develop new and better ways of delivering clinical care.
This Inpatient Occupational Therapist opportunity is per diem and offers a convenient flexible schedule. The dynamic individual will be responsible for the evaluation, planning, directing, and administering of occupational therapy modalities of treatment as prescribed by a licensed physician.
Job Duties/Responsibilities:
- Observes and evaluates treatment affect. Recommends change to physician, if needed.
- Performs an appropriate assessment on each patient, as related to the therapy requested and provided and reassessments, as per policy.
- Able to assess patient pain interfering with optimal level of function or participation in rehabilitation - makes appropriate physician contact for intervention.
- Formulates a teaching plan based on identified learning needs and evaluates effectiveness of learning; family is included in teaching, as appropriate.
Qualifications:
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST REQUIREMENTS:
- Current state licensure for Occupational Therapy.
- Three (3) or more years of previous experience in all aspects of occupational therapy preferred.
- Current BCLS certification.
