Nurse ; PCN

Position: Nurse 3 (PCN 027110)
Job Description

This position is open to Alaska Residents only.

Please check our residency definition to determine if you qualify.

The mission of the Division of the Alaska Pioneer Homes is: "Providing elder Alaskans a home and community, celebrating life through its final breath."

This position is a member of an outstanding nursing and direct care staff at the Sitka Pioneer Home and plays a vital role in providing care and support in a safe environment for up to sixty-five (65) elders.

Our division values are:

* Positive Attitude: "We enjoy what we do." Optimism inspires open-mindedness and creativity.

* Love: "We love who we serve." Out of love and respect for our residents, we put their needs before staff convenience.

* Accountability: "We do what we say." We are accountable to our residents, to their families and to each other. Accepting responsibility is essential as we plan and deliver care.

* Trust: "We say what we mean." Open and honest communication is crucial to earning the trust of our residents, their families and our coworkers.

* Excellence: "We provide excellent care, every resident, every day every time." Our own excellence inspires excellence in others, including residents, families and our coworkers.

What you will be doing:
Provide high quality care to assisted living home residents in a warm, supportive, and caring manner. This position provides clinical and medication administration to residents and clinical support to the care teams. Focus will be on quality resident care, the growth, development, and empowerment of health care teams, and the promotion of assisted living philosophy and statutes.

The benefits to joining our team:
This position is part of an amazing team with opportunities to make a positive impact on the quality of life for our Alaskan elders by providing excellent person-centered loving care and services. This position is surrounded by elder residents with many years of experience and wisdom who are in varying stages of their life journey.

The working environment you can expect:
This job is located in the Sitka Pioneer Home, an assisted living home in the heart of downtown at 120 Katlian Street in Sitka, Alaska. Imagine working in an environment on a beautiful waterfront campus, renowned for its gorgeous and aromatic rose hedges and scenic views

Who we are looking for:

Position-specific knowledge, skills and abilities that are desired or contribute to success in this position:

Medicine:
Knowledge of the diagnosis and treatment of injuries, disease, and deformities, including deformities, including preventive health care measures

Leadership:
Influences, motivates, and challenges others; adapts leadership styles to a variety of situations.

Accountability:
Holds self and others accountable for measurable high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results. Determines objectives, sets priorities, and delegates work. Accepts responsibility for own actions and decisions. Complies with established control systems and rules.

Oral and Written Communication:
Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral and written presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately

Evidence-Based Practice:
Integrates best research practices with clinical and/or subject matter expertise and patient values for optimum care and participates in learning and research activities to the extent feasible.

Other Job information:

* This position is in support of the Pioneer Home, which is a 24-hour facility.

* This Pioneer Home is an Eden Alternative facility, where the environment includes contact with plants, flowers, and pets including cats, dogs, fish and birds.

* Employees of the Pioneer Home receive continual screening for tuberculosis and criminal history.

A cover letter is NOT required for this position. Your complete application, [including supplemental questions], will be used to determine which applicants will advance to the interview phase of the recruitment and selection process.

To view the general description and example of duties for the Nurse III positions, please go to the following link:

Minimum Qualifications

Eligibility for licensure to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of Alaska.

AND

Two years of professional experience as a Registered Nurse, one of which must have been at the full performance/journey level. Examples of this latter experience include but are not exclusively limited to prior service as a Nurse II, Corrections Nurse II, or Psychiatric Nurse II with the State of Alaska or its equivalent with another employer.

Substitution:

Combinations of prior training and experience in other specializations of nursing care (e.g., Psychiatric, Corrections, Public Health, Critical Care, Surgical) will be evaluated for comparability on a case-by-case basis.

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