Interim Quality Assurance Registered Nurse

Job Details

Job Location:

LOS ANGELES, CA 90041

Position Type:
Full Time Education Level: High School Salary Range: $54.00 - $58.00 Hourly

Travel Percentage :
None

Job Shift: Day Job Category:
Health Care Hiring immediately for Interim position to support the Nursing Staff with Quality Measures, PCC Charting. Work Directly with the Director of Nursing and the Licensed Nurses on the Floor to ensure all charting is completed timely and accurately.

Must be familiar with QAPI, in serving floor staff and room rounds.

$1500.00 Sign on Bonus

JOB SUMMARY:

Assists Solheim Senior Community (“Solheim”) to the success of Solheim by effectively assessing, planning, implementing, evaluating, and coordinating nursing services that result in the provision of effective and high-quality care for our residents. Works in unison with all other departments to ensure the highest degree of resident and family satisfaction. Ensure staff compliance with Federal, State and local regulations. Ensure staff compliance and participation in the promotion of the Mission, Vision and Wellness philosophies.

• Makes daily rounds and obtains report from the Charge Nurses and Certified Nursing Aides (CNA) and Restorative Nurse Aides (RNA) regarding resident change of condition and current resident clinical needs or concerns. Ensures staff performs shift to shift reports and follow narcotic management and accounting procedures.
• Responds to all resident urgent or emergent situations. Provide clinical and administrative support to staff. Ensure that the Emergency Medical System (EMS) is activated in an appropriate and timely manner.
• Monitors and observes daily care delivery; ordered treatments, management of pain, medication administration, medication storage management, as well as behavioral care and psychotropic medication use; for quality and compliance in keeping with community care standards, regulatory standards and Solheim policies/procedures.
• Participates in medication administration and treatment delivery as needed.
• Acts as role model, guide and facilitator for care needs and special concerns related to residents suffering from memory loss.
• Participates in incident reporting and processing procedures. Assists staff in or performs resident physical assessment. Monitors, observes for and assesses resident personal safety needs. Consults with team. Ensures needed changes for preventive or reductive care are implemented, documented and communicated. Monitors and re-evaluates plan of care effectiveness. Performs environmental and room checks during rounds.
• Reports concerns, condition or status changes to the Asst. Director of Nursing and/or the Director of Nursing Services. In the absence of the DNS; reports to the Skilled Nursing Administrator/Executive Director.
• Demonstrates understanding of role and duties as a State Mandated Reporter for Abuse. Follows Abuse Prevention Protocols; participates in monitoring and identification, resident protection, investigations, reporting procedures, training and application of preventive measures.
• Ensures documentation is accurate, timely and in accordance with policy and procedure. Performs chart and other audits as assigned.
• Ensures physician orders are in compliance with policies and procedures; are complete, appropriate, and are accurately re-capped and reconciled. Audits and ensures MARs, logs, QA checks and forms are accurate, complete and done as assigned. Ensures appropriate destruction of discontinued medications is done as assigned.
• Assist in providing telehealth services.
• Ensures recommendations from the pharmacy consultant, behavior management team, weight variance committee, rehabilitation team and the Interdisciplinary Care Plan team are followed up on.
• Responds to resident needs and requests promptly and appropriately. Acts as a “person centered” facilitator for the resident, responsible party, family, staff and other healthcare providers/vendors.
• Follows infection control policies, procedures and standards of care. Provides guidance and monitoring for needed infection control and related procedures to the team. Reports concerns to the Asst. DON and/or DNS.
• Monitors,…