Full and Part-time

Wage DOE: $32.80-$44.14

General Purpose

The primary purpose of your job position is to provide direct nursing care to the residents.

Essential Duties

Every effort has been made to identify the essential functions of this position. However, it in no way states or implies that these are the only duties you will be required to perform. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or is an essential function of the position.

Administrative Functions

• Direct the day-to-day functions of the nursing assistants in accordance with current rules, regulations, and guidelines that govern the long-term care facility.

• Ensure that all nursing personnel assigned to you comply with the written policies and procedures established by this facility.

• Cooperate with other resident services when coordinating nursing services to ensure that the resident's total regimen of care is maintained.

• Periodically review the resident's written discharge plan. Participate in the updating of the resident's written discharge plan as required.

• Assist in planning the nursing services portion of the resident's discharge plan as necessary.

• Admit, transfer, and discharge residents as required.

• Complete accident/incident reports as necessary.

• Perform administrative duties such as completing medical forms, reports, evaluations, studies, charting, etc., as necessary.

• Agree not to disclose assigned user ID code and password for accessing resident/facility information and promptly report suspected or known violations of such disclosure to the Administrator.

• Agree not to disclose resident's protected health information and promptly report suspected or known violations of such disclosure to the Administrator.

• Report any known or suspected unauthorized attempt to access facility's information system.

Charting and Documentation

• Complete and file required recordkeeping forms/charts upon the resident's admission, transfer, and/or discharge.

• Receive telephone orders from physicians and record on the Physicians' Order Form.

• Transcribe physician's orders to resident charts, treatment/care plans, as required.

• Chart nurses' notes in an informative and descriptive manner that reflects the care provided to the resident, as well as the resident's response to the care.

• Fill out and complete accident/incident reports. Submit to Director as required.

• Chart all reports of accidents/incidents involving residents. Follow established procedures.

• Record new/changed diet orders. Forward information to the Food Services Department.

• Report all discrepancies noted concerning physician's orders, diet change, charting error, etc., to the Nurse Supervisor.

• Ensure that appropriate documentation concerning unauthorized discharges is entered in the resident's medical record in accordance with established procedures.

• Perform routine charting duties as required and in accordance with established charting and documentation policies and procedures.

• Sign and date all entries made in the resident's medical record.

Drug Administration Functions

• Prepare and administer medications as ordered by the physician.

• Verify the identity of the resident before administering the medication/treatment.

• Ensure that prescribed medication for one resident is not administered to another.

• Ensure that an adequate supply of floor stock medications, supplies, and equipment is on hand to meet the nursing needs of the residents.

• Order prescribed medications, supplies, and equipment as necessary, and in accordance with established policies.

• Ensure that narcotic records are accurate for your shift.

• Notify the Nurse Supervisor of all drug and narcotic discrepancies noted on your shift.

• Review medication cards for completeness of information, accuracy in the transcription of the physician's order, and adherence to stop order policies.

• Notify the attending physician of automatic stop orders prior to the last dosage being administered.

• Dispose of drugs and narcotics as required, and in accordance with established procedures.

Personnel Functions

• Inform the Nurse Supervisor of staffing needs when assigned personnel fail to report to work.

• Report absentee call-ins to the Nurse Supervisor.

• Provide leadership to nursing personnel assigned to your unit/shift.

• Make daily rounds of your unit/shift to ensure that nursing service personnel are performing their work assignments in accordance with acceptable nursing standards. Report problem areas to the Nurse Supervisor.

• Create and maintain an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest and positive emphasis, as well as a calm environment throughout the unit and shift.

• Receive/give the nursing report upon reporting in and ending shift duty hours.

• Report occupational exposures to blood, body fluids, infectious materials, and hazardous chemicals in accordance with the facility's policies and procedures governing accidents and incidents.

• Report known or suspected incidents of fraud to the Administrator. • Ensure that departmental computer workstations left unattended are properly logged off or the password protected automatic screen-saver activates within established facility policy guidelines.

Nursing Care Functions

• Inform nursing personnel of new admissions, their expected time of arrival, room assignment, etc.

• Ensure that rooms are ready for new admissions.

• Greet newly admitted residents upon admission. Escort them to their rooms as necessary.

• Participate in the orientation of new residents/family members to the facility.

• Make rounds with physicians as necessary.

• Requisition and arrange for diagnostic and therapeutic services, as ordered by the physician, and in accordance with our established procedures.

• Consult with the resident's physician in providing the resident's care, treatment, rehabilitation, etc., as necessary.

• Review the resident's chart for specific treatments, medication orders, diets, etc., as necessary.

• Implement and maintain established nursing objectives and standards.

• Cooperate with and coordinate social and activity programs with nursing service schedules.

• Notify the resident's attending physician when the resident is involved in an accident or incident.

• Notify the resident's attending physician and next-of-kin when there is a change in the resident's condition.

• Administer professional services such as; catheterization, tube feedings, suction, applying and changing dressings/bandages, packs, colostomy, and drainage bags, taking blood, giving massages and range of motion exercises, care for the dead/dying, etc., as required.

• Obtain sputum, urine and other specimens for lab tests as ordered

• Take and record TPRs, blood pressures, etc., as necessary.

• Monitor seriously ill residents as necessary.

• Check foods brought into the facility by the resident's family/visitors to ensure that it is within the resident's dietary allowances. Report problem areas to the Nurse Supervisor and Dietary Supervisor.

• Ensure that residents who are unable to call for help are checked frequently.

• Meet with residents, and/or family members, as necessary. Report problem areas to the Nurse Supervisor

• Admit, transfer and discharge residents as necessary.

• Ensure that discharged residents are escorted to the pick-up area.

• Inform family members of the death of the resident.

• Call funeral homes when requested by the family. Ensure that established post-mortem procedures are followed.

Safety and Sanitation

• Monitor your assigned personnel to ensure that they are following established safety regulations in the use of equipment and supplies.

• Ensure that established departmental policies and procedures, including dress codes, are followed by your assigned nursing personnel.

• Assist the Director and/or Infection Control Coordinator in identifying, evaluating, and classifying routine and job-related functions to ensure that tasks in which there is potential exposure to blood/body fluids are properly identified and recorded.

• Ensure that all personnel performing tasks that involve potential exposure to blood/body fluids participate in appropriate in-service training programs prior to performing such tasks.

• Ensure that an adequate supply of personal protective equipment are on hand and are readily available to personnel who perform procedures that involve exposure to blood or body fluids.

• Ensure that your assigned work areas (i.e., nurses' stations, medicine preparation rooms, etc.) are maintained in a clean and sanitary manner.

• Ensure that your unit's resident care rooms, treatment areas, etc., are maintained in a clean, safe, and sanitary manner.

• Ensure that your assigned personnel follow established handwashing and hand hygiene technique in the administering of nursing care procedures.

• Ensure that your assigned personnel participate in and conduct all fire safety and disaster preparedness drills in a safe and professional manner.

• Ensure that your assigned personnel follow established infection control procedures when isolation precautions become necessary.

• Ensure that nursing personnel follow established procedures in the use and disposal of personal protective equipment.

• Ensure that all personnel wear and/or use safety equipment and supplies (e.g., back brace, mechanical lifts, etc.) when lifting or moving residents.

• Report missing/illegible labels and MSDSs to the safety officer or other designated person.

Equipment and Supply Functions

• Recommend to the Nurse Supervisor the equipment and supply needs of your unit/shift.

• Ensure that an adequate stock level of medications, medical supplies, equipment, etc., is maintained on your unit/shift at all times to meet the needs of the residents.

Care Plan and Assessment Functions

• Review care plans daily to ensure that appropriate care is being rendered.

• Ensure that your nurses' notes reflect that the care plan is being followed when administering nursing care or treatment.

• Review resident care plans for appropriate resident goals, problems, approaches, and revisions based on nursing needs.

• Ensure that your assigned certified nursing assistants (CNAs) are aware of the resident care plans. Ensure that the CNAs refer to the resident's care plan prior to administering daily care to the resident.

Qualification

Education and/or Experience

Must possess, as a minimum, a Nursing Degree from an accredited college or university, or be a graduate of an approved LPN/LVN program.

Must possess a current, unencumbered, active license to practice as an LPN/LVN in this state.

Language Skills

Must be able to read, write, speak, and understand the English language.

Ability to read technical procedures.

Ability to read and comprehend policy and procedure manuals.

Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from managers and employees.

Must be able to relate information concerning a resident's condition.

Physical Demands

Must be able to move intermittently throughout the workday.

Must be able to speak and write the English language in an understandable manner.

Must be able to cope with the mental and emotional stress of the position.

Must be able to see and hear or use prosthetics that will enable these senses to function adequately to ensure that the requirements of this position can be fully met.

Must function independently and have flexibility, personal integrity, and the ability to work effectively with residents, personnel, and support agencies.

Must meet the general health requirements set forth by the policies of this facility, which include a medical and physical examination.

Must be able to relate to and work with the ill, disabled, elderly, emotionally upset, and, at times, hostile people within the facility.

Must be able to push, pull, move, and/or lift a minimum of 25 pounds to a minimum height of 5 feet and be able to push, pull, move, and/or carry such weight a minimum distance of 50 feet.

May be necessary to assist in the evacuation of residents during emergency situations.

Summary of Benefits

We are proud to offer our staff low monthly premium payments for employees and dependents will be as follows:

Medical, Dental, Vision

401(k) plan with employer match

Generous paid time off for vacation accruing at 4 hours a month, 48 FT or 40 PT annually recurring sick day hours prorated based on hire date, and 7 paid Holidays each year.