Registered Nurse ; Community

Position: Registered Nurse 2 (Community)
Duties Description
1. Participates in plans to consider moving individuals to Family Care by ensuring that health needs can be adequately addressed in a particular home.

• Reviews the individual's medication regimen.

• Completes Nursing Assessment.

• Provide technical assistance using knowledge and nursing skills to enable FC providers, families, and Service Coordinators to access and/or provide appropriate medical care, obtain equipment, etc. in the community.
2. Visits Family Care home on no less than a quarterly basis to ensure health needs are being met.
3. Visits and/or interfaces with community hospital staff on a weekly basis when Family Care individual is hospitalized.
4. Reviews health care documentation: physical examinations, etc. to ensure routine and/or specialized health services are provided.
5. Assist in training Family Care providers in medication administration and record keeping.
6. Assist team members in clarification of medical procedures, preventive health care, and assist with obtaining appropriate measures for individual in crisis and emergency situations.
7. Assist with obtaining consents from family members and through the Court Consent procedure.
8. Assist in planning for hospital discharges; attend discharge planning meeting to assist the team.
9. Provide on-site visits as required pertaining to individuals and alleged incidents.
10. Will participate in Individual Receiving Services move from one home to another.
11. Participate in special assignments as required

The candidate will clinically oversee a cluster of nurses and be responsible for multiple sites and may function as a RN1 as needed.

• Ensure nursing case management of multiple locations; caseload based on medical acuity.

• Oversee and supervise RNs and LPNs who will supervise the AMAP staff in providing Direct Support Assistants health care per the nurse Act Exemption.

• Ensure all medical follow-up is done timely.

Responsible for in-service on nursing plans and other staff development and oversight as required, including medication administration, which are vital activities to regular operations.

• Engage in orientation and mentoring of new RNs and LPNs.

• Complete evaluations.

• Monitor/Complete nursing audit for the cluster, work closely with the Nursing Supervisor / Director of Nursing and Team to review findings, and develop a plan of correction.

Monitors individuals' medical/health needs and services.

• Interacts with primary medical specialists, hospitals, and various clinical staff as necessary.

• Advocate for individuals' health care needs.

• Maintains ongoing communication with med liaison/designee.

• Provides support to site staff in maintaining health services for the individuals.

• Utilizes appropriate reporting mechanisms/chain of command in responding to individual and/or staff issues.

• Responds to emergency requests as soon as possible (within and outside caseload).

• Completes nursing assessments and related documentation via elect, e.g., RN Notes, nursing logbook, etc., thoroughly and within established time frames.

• Provides individual-specific nursing interventions.

• Responds to staff questions regarding individual-specific medical/nursing issues.

• PONS is current (for caseload) and signed by the staff. All PONS are maintained in EHR.

• Provides health-related training/consultation to residential staff.

• Annually, for each person in your caseload, complete: a review of the medical section Life Plan/CFA, medication audit (each home/day program).

• Participates in Nurse on call rotation.

• Obtain individual's informed consent for medications, as per BDDSO Policy.

• Completes required medication error documentation and staff medication error remediation.

Maintains professional skills.

• Attends Nursing Discipline meetings.

• Attends/completes online mandated training, as well as available discipline-specific training.

• Identifies problems and/or opportunities for personal and/or nursing department improvement (s) and contributes to developing an action plan.

• Completes special projects/assignments.

• Computer skills including Microsoft word, excel and Electronic Health Record software.

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