Registered Nurse; RN

Overview

Current, valid, Registered Nurse licensure to practice in the State of California. Current BLS certification. Full-Time: NOC shift.

• Licensure/Certification:
• Current, valid, Registered Nurse licensure to practice in the State of California
• Current BLS certification

• Requires at least six months prior RN experience in the past two years in a general acute care hospital setting or acquired equivalent competency appropriate to the type of sub-acute residents that the facility provides care to.

• Must be able to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical information, and to be easily understood through verbal communication in the English language.

• Must be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to perform these operations using units of weight measurement, and volume.
• Ability to perform upper-level mathematical operations.

• Check daily staffing and assure staffing needs are addressed - updating schedule for call-off and/or additions as needed. Assures daily staffing record is correct with census and staff numbers within 1 hour of start of shift.
• Supervises and administers direct nursing care when more than routine care is indicated. Evaluates all residents with COC to assure residents’ needs are being met. Provide support/education to staff, residents and families.
• Makes rounds twice each shift to assure proper care and a safe, clean resident environment throughout the facility.
• Meets with all new admissions to assure core needs are being met.
• Assures accuracy and completeness of medical records. Reviews resident record for all new admissions to assure complete per facility policies and procedures. Review all event reports for completion.
• Assists with admissions, resident care plans and resident assessments and responsible for all IV needs of residents. Assists with Pharmacy and Dietary recommendations. To assure F/U with 72 hrs. Assures meal trays are delivered in timely manner.

• Performs assigned resident care duties in a manner that provides for the physical, psycho-social, and spiritual needs of the chronically ill and technologically dependent resident, incorporating cultural and ethnic factors.
• Completes initial and ongoing assessments in a timely manner, incorporating functional/development age factors into the assessment process.
• Correctly differentiates between normal and abnormal clinical findings and intervenes in accordance with clinical standards of practice and per physician orders.
• Works collaboratively with the resident/family and interdisciplinary team members to develop an individualized plan of care for each resident.
• Demonstrates sound clinical judgment in the implementation, and evaluation of the nursing aspects of interdisciplinary resident care plan of care.
• Proficiently and accurately evaluates, assists with treatments, and reports resident condition changes to the attending physician, family, interdisciplinary team members and nursing personnel.
• Directs and coordinates the care of each resident to meet their overall individualized needs.
• Administers medications in a proficient manner, including IV therapy and pain management. Is able to accurately calculate dosage and solutions appropriate to resident’s age, as needed, including IV therapy, IV pain management, and TPN/PPN. Is able to provide care and treatment to residents with Central Lines, PICC lines, and peripheral IVs.
• Provides treatment administration in a proficient manner per direction from the physician, which includes but is not limited to: wound packing, irrigation, indwelling catheter care, etc.
• Proficiently provides and manages the care of technologically dependent residents, including but not limited to:
• Ventilator dependency
• Ostomies such as, but not limited to: tracheostomy, ileostomy, urostomy, gastrostomy etc.
• Enteral feeding tubes
• Tracheostomy Care
• Suctioning
• Proficiently provides care in emergency situations and follows established emergency procedures and practices.
• Maintains knowledge of and…