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Job Summary:

Provide restorative nursing care under the supervision of a licensed nurse and coordinate care withother facility and rehabilitation personnel.

Job Responsibilities:

• Preparing resident for restorative services as therapeutically warranted by PT, OT, or ST, and administering routine treatments when qualified to do so.
• Assist residents in improving skills in grooming, self-feeding, dressing, ambulation, bowel and bladder training, etc
• Assisting residents in putting on and removing assistive and supportive devices such as braces, splints, slings, etc., prior to and after treatment.
• Administering routine exercise and activity treatments such as gait training, bicycle exercise, and range of motion.
• Assisting in transporting resident to and from therapy room/area and transferring residents between treatment equipment using proper transfer techniques appropriate to the residents condition.
• Being alert to residents response to procedure/program and reporting any signed of pain, fatigue, and/or other problems.
• Maintaining a treatment record and documentation of progress on each resident receiving restorative service.
• Safeguarding, motivating, and assisting residents practicing exercise in functional activities.