Nurse Manager; RN

Overview

Join a Team That Changes Lives

For more than 170 years, Elwyn has been leading the way in supporting children, teens, and adults with autism, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and behavioral health challenges. As a mission-driven nonprofit, we're here to create real change - helping people lead meaningful, fulfilling lives.

Now, we're looking for passionate team members to join us. Here, your work will change lives - including your own. You'll make an impact every day, find purpose in what you do, and grow in a career that truly matters.

At Elwyn, we take care of you while you care for others. We offer:

• Generous Paid Time Off
• Comprehensive Medical/Dental/Vision Benefit Packages
• Earned Wage Access/On-Demand Pay
• Paid On-the-Job Training
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Career Advancement Opportunities and Growth
• Flexible Schedules
• Retirement Savings Plan

Join us and be a part of something bigger. Apply today.

As a key member of the Media Campus nursing leadership team, the Nurse Manager provides and supports other nursing team members in providing normalized, empathetic, therapeutic, and preventative health care to individuals with intellectual disabilities. The Nurse Manager oversees the functions associated with managing the nursing needs of individuals in residence(s), care coordination, and the delivery of nursing services while ensuring that both regulatory and clinical practice standards are met.

• Ensures that ongoing clinical assessment, coordination, and interdisciplinary collaboration necessary to meet client health care needs are performed by nursing staff assigned to the unit/s they manage
• Ensures that appropriate health care assessments are completed as directed by the interdisciplinary treatment team, policy and procedures, and regulatory requirements through tasks including but not limited to quarterly and annual assessments or during initial assessments at the time of admission to the unit
• Ensures that client assessments and reports are accurate and complete
• Presents data collected through direct observation, interview, clinical assessment, and records and presents review to the physician and larger interdisciplinary team
• Obtains Certified Investigator (CI) designation and conducts investigations of incidents as necessary, e.g. death investigations, medication errors, etc.
• Sets health care priorities, including but not limited to medication administration, vital sign monitoring and wound care in accordance with professional judgment
• Supervises the nursing staff, assigned to the residences they are managing, in the implementation of the nursing process by providing assistance/support/oversight in identifying alternate interventions to promote the general health and wellness of the client
• Provides supervision of assigned staff in the areas including, but not limited to, recruitment, selection, leadership, coaching, training, performance management, promotion, discipline, and termination
• Completes the Annual Health Summary for the person's served in the programs they are managing, and presents to the larger interdisciplinary team ensuring that all health care needs have been addressed
• Works closely with family members/legal guardians/health care decision-makers for the individuals supported in the residences they are managing to identify and communicate client health care needs and actions being taken to address them
• Serves as a resource person for questions related to health and wellness, including but not limited to vital sign values, infection treatments and illness/wound status
• Ensures appropriate follow-up and documentation of all recommendations for specialized services/consultations has been completed
• Reviews recommendations of consulting pharmacist and liaisons with physicians and care providers for necessary review and follow-up activities, including but not limited to medication change, medication administration times, and alteration of medication dosages
• Monitors physician's orders, Medication Administration Records (MARs), and relevant documentation related to compliance with medication administration to ensure that medications are properly and safely administered to reduce the risk of medication errors and injuries
• Reviews critical incidents related to the health and safety needs of the consumers and ensures that there is accurate, detailed, and timely follow-up and documentation of such via daily progress notes and communication, whether in person, via phone or through email, with the Nursing Supervisor for addition to the Nursing Supervisor Shift Report
• Liaisons with external pharmacies, durable medical equipment (DME) providers, vendors, specialists, community-based providers, and insurers to ensure that client-specific needs are met in a clinically prudent and fiscally-sound manner
• Provides clinical leadership, direction, and support to the extended care team to ensure that consumer health and safety needs are adequately addressed
• Assists in…