• Full Time and Part Time Positions Available

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``` - Part Time , 3p-11p,  Swing bed and acute care unit.   - Part Time, 7a-3p, Charge Nurse - Full Time-12 hour/8 hour mixed shift, Swing Bed Unit

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``` - 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. - Ensure that the nursing service personnel comply with the procedures set forth in the Nursing Service Procedures Manual. - Make written and oral reports/recommendations concerning the activities of your shift as required. - Cooperate with other resident services when coordinating nursing services to ensure that the residents total regimen of care is maintained. - Ensure that all nursing service personnel are in compliance with their respective job descriptions. - Participate in the development, maintenance, and implementation of the facility's quality assurance program for the nursing service department. - Participate in surveys (inspections) made by authorized government agencies as may be requested. - Interpret the department policies and procedures to personnel, residents, visitors, and government agencies as required. - Admit, transfer, and discharge residents as required per policies and procedures. - Complete accident/incident reports as necessary per policies and procedures. - Perform administrative duties such as completing medical forms, reports, evaluations, studies, charting, etc., as necessary. - Complete and file required recordkeeping forms/charts upon the resident admission, transfer, and/or discharge. - Receive telephone orders from physicians and record on the Physicians Order Form. - Transcribe physicians orders to resident charts, cardex, medication cards, 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 response to care. - Record new/changed diet orders. Forward information to the Dietary Department. - Report all discrepancies noted concerning physician orders, diet change, charting error, etc., to the Nurse Manager and/or the Director of Nursing. - Inform the Director of Nursing of staffing needs when assigned personnel fail to report to work. Report absentee call-ins to the Director of Nursing. - Develop work assignments and/or assist in completing and performing such assignments. 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 Director of Nursing. - Develop and maintain a good working rapport with inter-departmental personnel, as well as other departments within the facility to ensure that nursing services and activities can be adequately maintained to meet the needs of the residents. - Create and maintain an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest and positive emphasis, as well as a calm environment throughout the unit and shift. - Ensure that disciplinary action is administered fairly and without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, age, sex, religion, handicap, or marital status. - Inform appropriate personnel of new admissions, their expected time of arrival, room assignment, etc. - 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 - Review the resident chart for specific treatments, medication orders, diets, etc., as necessary - Make periodic checks to ensure that prescribed treatments are being properly administered by certified nursing assistants and to evaluate the resident physical and emotional status. - Notify the resident attending physician and next-of-kin when there is a change in the resident condition/death. - Inspect the nursing service treatment areas daily to ensure that they are maintained in a clean and safe manner. - Administer professional services such as; catheterization, tube feedings, suction, applying and changing dressings/bandages, packs, colostomy, and drainage bags, glucometers, and range of motion exercises, end of life patient care - Obtain sputum, urine and other specimens for lab tests as ordered. - Take and record TPRs, blood pressures, etc., as necessary. - Administer medications per facility protocols. - Monitor seriously ill residents as necessary. - Ensure that personnel providing direct care to residents are providing such care in accordance with the resident care plan and wishes. - Ensure that residents who are unable to call for help are checked frequently. - Call funeral homes when requested by the family. - Ensure that established post-mortem procedures are followed. - Ensure that your assigned work areas (i.e., nurse stations, medicine preparation rooms, etc.) are maintained in a clean and sanitary manner. - Ensure that your assigned personnel follow established hand-washing techniques in the administering of nursing care procedures. - Ensure that your assigned personnel follow established infection control procedures when isolation precautions become necessary. - Inform the Director of Nursing of any changes that need to be made on the care plan. - Ensure that your nurses notes reflect that the care plan is being followed when administering nursing care or treatment. - Ensure that your assigned certified nursing assistants (CNAs) are aware of the resident care plans - Maintain the confidentiality of all resident care information. - Monitor nursing care to ensure that all residents are treated fairly, and with kindness, dignity, and respect. - Ensure that all nursing care is provided in privacy and that nursing service personnel knock before entering the resident's room. - Ensure that all nursing service personnel are knowledgeable of the resident's responsibilities and rights including the right to refuse treatment. - Review complaints and grievances made by the resident and make a written/oral report to the Director of Nursing indicating what action(s) were taken to resolve the complaint or grievance. - Report and investigate all allegations of resident abuse and/or misappropriation of resident property. - Ensure that nursing staff personnel honor the resident refusal of treatment request. - Provide data to the Quality Assurance & Assessment committee as requested. - Delegate responsibilities as deemed necessary, ensuring it is within the receiving staff's scope of practice.