Nursing

Rehabilitation nursing can be an exceptionally rewarding path for a medical professional. As a rehabilitation nurse, you will have the opportunity to play a robust role in your patients’ healing.

This six-month residency is a structured, immersive learning experience that supports a precepted clinical orientation alongside the support of selected mentors.

Rehabilitation nurses are on the frontlines of helping people recover from a debilitating illness or injury that makes it challenging or even impossible to perform their typical daily functions. From assisting patients with learning how to perform routine tasks for themselves once again to lending encouragement and support to families, rehab nurses like those at Brooks Rehabilitation provide crucial care and expertise during every step of the treatment process.

Rehabilitation nursing is a specialty involving the provision of care to individuals with impaired functional ability. This includes people with disabilities, disabling injuries, or chronic illnesses. The role of the nurse, in this case, is to work with these individuals and help them resume function and attain optimal health. The goal is that they ultimately gain independence, and get back to their normal lives.

At Brooks Rehabilitation, we offer our nurses numerous career advancement opportunities, including in rehabilitative and physical therapy careers, physical therapy nursing jobs, rehabilitation therapy positions, and many more. Read on to learn more about Brooks Rehabilitation, and our career advancement opportunities for nurses.

After earning a nursing degree, your education as a nurse does not stop. This is because the profession is constantly moving forward as new procedures, methods, and approaches to medicine change as medical researchers make new discoveries. Knowing how much the medical field evolves, many state boards of nursing insist on continuing education (CE) to keep nursing licenses valid, ensuring their state’s nurses are up-to-date on the field’s best practices.

Like doctors, nurses and physical therapists, rehabilitation nurse technicians are an integral part of that team. These committed professionals are critical to the conception, implementation and evaluation of a patient’s course of treatment, and the satisfaction they receive from playing a crucial role in an individual’s recovery can’t be measured in dollars or accolades.

Rehab nurses can work in a variety of settings, including hospitals, community and home health settings, and in dedicated rehabilitation centers or hospitals. Rehab nurses work with patients recovering from chronic illness or injury over weeks or even months as patients regain function and independence.

If you’re first embarking on your nursing career, or if you’re considering a change in your nursing specialization, there’s never been a better time to consider the rewarding career of rehabilitation nursing. If you love collaborating with a team, are inspired to keep learning, and aren’t afraid to take on a leadership role when it comes to your patients’ care, rehab nursing might be the perfect next step in your career.

Even for most veteran nurses, nursing interviews can be a source of stress, and attending a nursing interview can feel daunting. It is essential to be prepared to demonstrate your knowledge, training, experience, and skills during the interview.

The nursing home environment offers the chance to positively impact our elderly, whether you are a fresh nursing graduate with a particular fondness for working with the elderly or a seasoned nurse seeking a shift of pace from the hospital setting.

If doctors and patients are the major players on the mainstage of professional healthcare, nurses are the stage managers, light designers, and supporting cast. Nurses are the friendly faces and steady hands of health care and without them the experience of creating healthy lives would be cold, sterile and ultimately unsuccessful.

Just as universities have been forced to move away from holding in-person classes, so too have nursing schools. As a result, nursing schools have adopted online and hybrid formats for educating nursing students.

At Brooks, our bedside rehabilitation nurses collaborate with their peers and leadership from all disciplines acting as key drivers dedicated to improving outcomes and the patient experience. Not only is the role of the rehabilitation nurse to help patients reach their highest level of recovery and restore independence; but they also act as an advocate, educator and caregiver.

Our nurses at Brooks Rehabilitation lead with passion and are committed to excellence. They offer mission-driven, patient-centered care. Rehabilitation nurses make a difference in the lives of our patients, their families and our employees. They are servant leaders, working together to provide the best patient care.

Nurses at Brooks are offered several career growth opportunities from the moment they walk through the door. With supporting managers and executive leaders, nurses at Brooks are given many avenues to excel and grow within their roles.

At Brooks, you are not just another number. You are a part of a team and a family. The relationships our nurses form with our patients, their families and fellow employees are critical to our success.

The Mission at Brooks Rehabilitation is to empower people to achieve their highest level of recovery and participation in life through excellence in rehabilitation. Our nurses are a critical element in enabling the best outcome for our patients. They are a part of the recovery journey from the very beginning.

On this episode we talk all about rehabilitation nursing! We are joined by our SVP of Nursing, Joanne Hoertz as well as physicians, therapists and nurses to help paint the picture on how Brooks Rehabilitation approaches patient care through nursing.