Registered Nurse
Setting:Skilled nursing
Status: Full Time / PRN
Shift: day/Eve or Eve/NOC
Wage: $42+/hour DOE
Location: Avamere at Pacific Ridge - 3625 East B St. Tacoma, WA 98404
Here you will find Avamere at Pacific Ridge, a 102-bed skilled nursing community which specializes in serving seniors suffering from dementia, cognitive impairment, and psychiatric conditions. The community offers quality memory care and behavioral health programs.
Avamere at Pacific Ridge team members strive for excellence in quality care, a comfortable environment, and bringing joy to their residents. This is evident in their recognition as part of the American Health Care Association’s Quality Initiative Recognition Program.
Employee Benefits:
- Tuition assistance
- Mentorship opportunities & Career development
- Employee assistance program featuring counseling services, financial coaching, free legal services and more
- Generous employee referral program
- Paid time off/sick leave (rolls over annually)
- 401K retirement plan with employer match
- Comprehensive benefits package with medical coverage, voluntary dental, vision, and life insurance, short-term disability, and AD&D coverage
- Access up to 50% of your net earned income before payday
Responsibilities:
- Implement and maintain established nursing practice objectives and standards; Provide direct patient care to residents.
- Complete required recordkeeping while admitting, transferring, and discharging residents.
- Coordinate with nursing staff and support personnel daily to plan shift services, programs, and activities to ensure the resident’s total regimen of patient care is maintained.
- Prepare and administer medications and review medication cards for completeness and accuracy.
- Review patient care plans for appropriate resident goals, problems, approaches, and revisions based on nursing needs.
- Supervise the day-to-day nursing and caregiving activities performed by CNAs.
- Chart nurses’ notes in an informative and descriptive manner that reflects the care provided to the resident and resident’s response to care.
- Participate in facility surveys by authorized government agencies.
- Maintain confidentiality of all resident care information in accordance with HIPAA guidelines.
Qualifications:
- Must possess a nursing degree from an accredited college or university.
- Must possess a current, unencumbered, active license to practice as a RN in this state.
- Knowledgeable of nursing and medical practices and procedures, as well as laws, regulations and guidelines that pertain to nursing care facilities.
- Experience with Electronic Medical Records and computer documentation systems.
- Knowledge of reimbursement programs, Medicare and Medicaid preferred.
- Maintain confidentiality of all resident care information in accordance with HIPAA guidelines.
Avamere Living is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify
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