Part-Time Registered Nurse

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The RN manages and supervises resident care ensuring the highest quality of care is received in accordance with the BON standards, is guided by the Residents’ Bill of Rights and abides by the facility Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) program. Through the collection and analysis of data, the RN is accountable for performing a comprehensive assessment to establish the baseline health status of residents as well as to create a detailed Plan of Care that includes individual needs and preferences.

RNs oversee practical nurses, CNAs and nursing personnel through assessment of their knowledge, skill and capabilities; clarifying expectations and addressing behavior to ensure the safety of residents and to attain the ultimate goal of achieving and maintaining the highest practicable physical, mental and psychosocial well-being of each resident.

• Resident Health Status Assessment and Plans of Care
  • Performs comprehensive assessment through data collection from resident and family interviews, observation, review of medical records, etc., used to create an initial health status baseline.
  • Drafts an integrated, resident-centered Plan of Care, based upon comprehensive health status assessment and input from the interdisciplinary care team.
  • Facilitates Plan of Care through assigning responsibilities and clearly communicating residents’ needs.
  • Maximizes quality of living through continual monitoring and evaluation of resident care and correlated recommendations, ensuring all goals and outcomes are thoroughly and accurately documented.
• Ensuring Adequate and Proper Nursing Care
  • Ensures integration and effectiveness of resident’s Plan of Care while developing and implementing nurse interventions and evaluating correlated responses.
  • Collaborates with and coordinates the interdisciplinary care team to manage implementation of care, delegating nursing activities as needed.
  • Provides guidance on health promotion, disease prevention, care coordination and findings to the interdisciplinary care team, designing and implementing correlated resident teaching plans.
  • Supervises ongoing resident care under the scope of the Residents’ Bill of Rights, immediately reporting any suspicions, reports or witnessed events of abuse, neglect, misappropriation of resident property.
  • Maintains awareness of facility QAPI goals and abides by and promotes the QAPI program.
  • Displays and promotes a strong culture of customer service, ensuring a resident-centered experience.
  • Provides and ensures nursing activities are practiced in accordance with the BON standards while protecting residents’ dignity, privacy and autonomous decision-making whenever possible.
  • Provides the highest quality care to all residents, without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age or differences in culture.
  • Interacts regularly with resident’s family or support network, reporting any changes in health, treatment, care, or living situation.
  • Completes nursing activities indicative of RNs such as inserting PICC lines, preparing IVs, administering IV medications, accessing IV ports, drawing or administering blood, providing resident education, accepting verbal orders or determining nursing diagnoses.
  • Recognizes limits of knowledge, skill and experience; facilitates situations beyond the RN’s competency.
• Compliance – Safety, Documentation, HIPAA
  • Ensures all call lights are promptly and courteously answered or immediately facilitated.
  • Uses and guides other nursing staff on always using proper body mechanics.
  • Uses, observes, and instructs nursing staff on safe lifting and care techniques including proper use of equipment.
  • Maintains knowledge of, promotes and follows site safety policies, OSHA guidelines regarding blood borne pathogens and standard precaution infection control policies to provide safe nursing care.
  • Maintains a safe, clean environment in resident rooms and facility following procedure to bag infectious linens and equipment or proper disposal of them; proper handwashing, disinfection/cleaning schedules.
  • Ensures physician orders…