Registered Nurse; RN) Memory Care

Vista Prairie Communities is a fast-paced and quickly-growing nonprofit senior housing and health care corporation that uses affiliated organizations to serve persons of diverse incomes by providing nurturing and homelike properties in the lifelong communities of its residents. We engage staff, residents, the local community and service providers to create the quality of life we all hope to experience.

The role of the Memory Care RN is to ensure that the health and safety of all residents are met through assessments and reassessment, development and implementation of appropriate service plans and plans of care, monitoring of resident’s services, supervision of staff and on-going training of staff and determining they are competent prior to delegating tasks to them. The RN will also ensure that the facility is in compliance with current regulations and standards.

This position reports directly to the Director of Health Services.

• Ensures residents have up-to-date care plans that address their needs and preferences, including interventions to address any areas of vulnerability and individualized medication management or treatment or therapy management plans. Reassesses the resident and modifies the service plan if necessary whenever the resident has a fall or other incident, whenever there is a significant change in the resident's condition or if the resident or the resident's representative requests a change in services.
• Responsible for educating residents and their representatives about advance directives, medications, safety of side rails or assistive devices, potential hazards in the facility and other relevant information.
• Monitors and maintains resident’s clinical charts and clinical progress notes.
• Communicates with physicians and other personnel (e.g., case manager or care coordinator) regarding changes in resident’s needs or conditions.
• For any resident receiving assistance with medications, the RN is responsible for medication management services identified in the individualized plan, such as setting up or ordering medications as well as any necessary follow-up with physicians regarding medications and/or medical conditions.
• Ensures all physicians’ orders are signed and implemented on a timely basis consistent with the resident's needs and condition.
• Ensures that proper systems, policies and procedures are developed and implemented correctly by licensed and unlicensed staff regarding the storage, set up, administration and disposal of medications, including systems to control controlled medications.
• Ensures that residents' medication records are up to date, ensures that medication administration procedures are followed properly, investigates and discusses errors and issues with staff, and implements corrective action plans as needed.
• Reviews each resident's medication record regularly for consistency with medication orders and with the facilities documentation policies.
• Communicates in resident's record any information that staff needs to know and reviews staff communications (written, voice mail or other) on a timely basis each work day.
• Ensures new medication sheets are in place by the first of each month.
• Reviews each resident’s medication sheet monthly and ensures accuracy and appropriate signatures.
• Documents disposal of medication per facility procedure and the resident's individualized medication management plan.
• Is responsible for implementing the facilities’ infection control plan, universal precautions, and TB prevention plan, and for implementing and documenting TB screening of staff and other vaccinations.
• Addresses resident and family concerns or complaints to the extent possible and follows up with appropriate staff to resolve…