Registered Nurse; RN

Key Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide direct nursing care to residents.
• Supervise the day‑to‑day nursing activities performed by nursing assistants, ensuring compliance with federal, state, and local regulations and community policies.
• Maintain the highest level of quality care in accordance with current rules, guidelines, and requirements from the RCC or Unit Manager.
• Ensure all nursing personnel adhere to written policies, procedures, and job descriptions; conduct meetings to plan shift services, programs, and activities.
• Cooperate with resident services to coordinate nursing services and preserve the resident’s total care regimen.
• Participate in community surveys and inspections by authorized government agencies; review and update resident discharge plans as needed.
• Interpret and communicate departmental policies and procedures to personnel, residents, visitors, and government agencies.
• Administer professional nursing services including catheterization, tube feedings, suction, dressing changes, colostomy care, blood draws, ranges of motion, and end‑of‑life support; perform vital signs and routine monitoring per the care plan.
• Admit, transfer, and discharge residents as required.
• Complete administrative duties such as medical forms, reports, evaluations, studies, charting, and other documentation in accordance with established policies.
• Encourage physicians to review treatment plans and record their orders and progress notes.
• Receive telephone orders from physicians and transcribe them onto the Physicians' Order Form.
• Chart nursing notes in an informative, descriptive manner reflecting the care provided and the resident’s response.
• Complete accident/incident reports following community policy and submit them to the RCC or Unit Manager.
• Record new or changed diet orders and forward information to the Dietary Department.
• Perform routine charting duties and notify the Nurse Supervisor of staffing needs when scheduled personnel fail to report to work.
• Report absentee call‑ins, no‑call no‑show incidents, and staff staffing needs to the RCC and/or Scheduling Coordinator.
• Evaluate department workforce, recommend staffing adjustments, develop work assignments, and assist in assignment completion.
• Make rounds of the unit/shift to ensure staff are performing their responsibilities as expected.
• Maintain a good working rapport with coworkers and other departments, review complaints and grievances, and report them to the RCC and/or Unit Manager.
• Record occupational exposures to blood, body fluids, infectious materials, and hazardous chemicals per community policies.
• Monitor personnel to ensure adherence to safety regulations when using equipment and supplies; recommend equipment and supply needs to the Nurse Supervisor.
• Review care plans daily to ensure appropriate care is rendered and maintain confidentiality of all resident care information.

• Regular worksite attendance.
• Must possess a valid RN license in good standing with the State.
• Must have basic computer skills.
• Must be able to read, write, speak, and understand English.
• Must be willing to work beyond normal hours, including weekends and holidays when necessary.
• Must assist in the evacuation of residents during emergencies.
• Must perform essential functions with, or without, reasonable accommodation.
• Must utilize transfer/gait belts or obtain assistance when lifting/​carrying objects over 25 lbs; awareness of routine body movements required.
• Lift up to 10 lbs:
  Frequently; 11‑25 lbs:
  Rarely; 26‑50 lbs:
  Rarely; over 50 lbs:
  Rarely.
• Carry up to 10 lbs:
  Occasionally; 11‑25 lbs:
  Rarely; 26‑50 lbs:
  Rarely; over 50 lbs:
  Rarely.
• Reach above shoulder height:
  Frequently; at shoulder height:
  Constantly; below shoulder height:
  Frequently.
• Push or pull:
  Constantly.
• Hand manipulation:
  Grasping and handling constant; torquing and fingering rarely.
• Twisting, bending, crawling, squatting, kneeling, crouching, climbing, and balancing required.
• Employees may be required to operate an automobile and various games.
• Must relate to and work with ill, disabled, elderly, emotionally upset, and hostile individuals.
• Must see and hear, or use prosthetics enabling adequate sensory function for job performance.