Registered Nurse

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This range is provided by NYS Office for People With Developmental Disabilities. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

$96,147.00/yr - $/yr

• Monitors individual’s medical/health needs and services.
• Visits each assigned home weekly (minimally) to provide nursing oversight and complete review of items.
• Interacts with primary, medical specialists, various clinical staff as necessary.
• Advocate for individuals’ health care needs.
• Maintains ongoing communication with medical liaison/designee.
• Provides support to residential staff in maintaining health services for the individuals.
• Utilizes appropriate reporting mechanisms/chain of command in responding to individual and/or staff issues.
• Completes follow‑up including documentation for individuals post ER/hospital visit follow‑up.
• Reviews, comments, initials and dates lab, x‑ray, consults, etc. If indicated completes follow‑up with practitioner.
• Provides necessary documentation regarding home visits within established time frames.
• Follows pressure wound policy and documentation requirements.
• Provides appropriate nursing services and support/oversight to Residential/Day Hab. Staff.
• Responds to emergency requests as soon as possible (within and outside caseload).
• Completes nursing assessments and related documentation e.g. RN Notes, nursing log book, etc. thoroughly and within established time frames.
• Provides individual‑specific nursing interventions.
• Responds to staff questions regarding individual specific medical/nursing issues.
• PONS are current (for caseload) and signed by staff. All PONS are maintained in computer files.
• Provides health related training/consultation to day program, IES, residential staff.
• Annually for everyone in your caseload, completes: review of medical section ISP, medication audit (each home).
• Keeps up to date regarding changes to medical section on ISP.
• Responsible for obtaining individual’s informed consent for medications, as per BDDSOO Policy.
• Provides adequate nursing assessment/supervision of DSAs competency regarding individual –specific nursing delegated procedures including medication administration.
• Completes initial medication certification and conducts annual clinical performance evaluations for DSAS for procedures that include but not limited to medication administration (Annual Clinical Nursing Evaluation of Nursing Delegated Tasks).
• Provides training for all staff as needed on new/revised medication/policies.
• Provides CMHN, NA and NPC’ with certification/recertification information for data base in a timely manner.
• Completes required medication error documentation and staff medication error remediation.
• Provides clinical supervision to LPNs.
• Provides adequate nursing supervision and completes performance evaluations (as assigned) regarding individual‑specific nursing procedures.
• Maintains professional skills.
• Attends Nursing Discipline meetings.
• Attends/completes on‑line mandated DDSO training, as well as available discipline specific training.
• Identifies problems and/or opportunities for personal and/or nursing department improvement (s) and contributes to the development of an action plan.
• Completes special projects/assignments.

Must have a license and a current registration as a registered professional nurse in New York State.

This title is part of the New York Hiring for Emergency Limited Placement Statewide Program (NY HELPS). HELPS Program titles may be filled via a non‑competitive appointment. This means that you do not need to take an exam to qualify, but you do need to meet the minimum qualifications of the title.

At a future date (within one year of permanent appointment), employees hired under NY HELPS are expected to have their permanent non‑competitive employment status converted to permanent competitive status. You will not have to take an exam to gain permanent competitive status.

• Please note that starting salary for this title reflects the increased hiring salary and geographic…