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Job Details
Job Location: Woodland Pond Inc - New Paltz, NY
Position Type: Per Diem
Salary Range: $46.97 - $51.97 Hourly
Job Shift: Varied
Job Category: Health Care
Description
Position Summary
The Charge RN is responsible to maintain the nursing philosophy, objectives, and standards of quality nursing care; and ensure compliance with standards, codes, rules and regulations, and the policies set-forth by Woodland Pond.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Administrative Functions:
- Notifies the Director of Nursing and Administrator on Call as required.
- Participates actively with IDT and follows-through on actions determined by the Team.
- Is responsible for every resident in the Health Center.
- Serves as a resident advocate and ensures resident rights are maintained.
- Supports the medical staff.
- Works collaboratively with all departments at Woodland Pond.
- Works with staff in the planning of the units services, programs, and activities.
- Ensures consistency between all units in nursing care.
- Ensures staff comply with policies and standards of care.
- Ensures completeness of Accident and Incident reports.
- Serves as a leader and resource for nursing staff.
- Participates in investigations as assigned.
- Ensures safe quality care is provided to the residents daily.
- Is a liaison with residents, families, and other departments to adequately plan for and provide resident care.
- Guides LPNs and CNAs responsibilities.
- Ensures accurate, appropriate, and complete documentation by all nursing staff.
- Ensures accuracy of Care Plan, Kardex, MDS, and Assessment.
- Completes timely as assigned.
- Effectively communicates the plan of care.
- Ensures that resident care plan is followed.
- Communication:
- Ensures appropriate and ongoing communication to the resident, family, staff, MD, IDT, etc.
- Uses communication to enhance quality of resident care and staff working environment.
- Personnel/Staff Development:
- Assists with employee evaluations, employee praise, and discipline as necessary.
- Actively participates with staff education.
- Promotes an environment of learning.
- Ensures staff attends mandatory in-services and meets minimum continuing education requirements.
- Conducts routine staff audits to ensure care is being delivered per care plan and medical staff orders.
- Ensures work consistency among staff.
- Promotes a positive, friendly work environment.
- Equipment and Supplies:
- Ensures appropriate supplies are available and monitors that supplies are utilized appropriately to avoid waste.
- Is cost-effective.
- Policy and Procedure Manuals:
- Ensures staff awareness of manuals, including other departments.
- Uses manual and assists other staff on using policies as necessary.
- Quality Assurance:
- Constantly strives to enhance the resident and staff experience.
- Reports and completes necessary paperwork for each resident incident/accident/change in condition.
- Safety/Infection Control:
- Ensures staff compliance with standards and regulations.
- Reports potential outbreaks and takes appropriate measures to control/eliminate infection control exposures.
- Staffing Coverage:
- Required to ensure appropriate coverage for the nursing department 24/7, including weekends, holidays, and off-shifts.
- Works beyond normal working hours, or in other positions temporarily when necessary.
- Is subject to callback during emergency conditions.
- Takes RN on-call as needed.
- Other Specific Requirements:
- Must have patience, tact, a cheerful disposition, and be enthusiastic.
- Must work harmoniously with others.
- Seeks out new methods and principles to incorporate into the nursing practice.
- Creates and maintains an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest, positive emphasis, as well as a calm environment.
- Able to make independent decisions.
- Able to plan, organize, develop, implement, and interpret the programs, goals, objectives, policies and procedures necessary to provide quality care.
- Promotes teamwork and collaboration among Woodland Pond staff members.
- Ongoing education:
- Must continually strive to enhance knowledge, and ensure evidence-based nursing is being practiced.
- Encouraged to attend out-of-facility continuing education seminars.
- Completes all required training and in-services.
- All other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Maintains high standards for work areas, attitude and appearance.
- Understands that honesty and ethics are essential in the performance of duties.
- Willing to learn and grow.
- Demonstrates maturity in judgment and behaviors.
- Demonstrated knowledge and skills necessary to provide care to and communicate with primarily the geriatric population.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span.
- Able to assess data reflecting the residents status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each residents requirements relative to their age-specific needs.
- Able to work a flexible schedule.
- Maintains predictable and reliable attendance.
Qualifications
- RN graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
- Minimum two years of clinical nursing experience preferred.
- Holds a current, unencumbered RN license to practice in the State of New York.
- Proficiency with computers and standard office software.
- Valid CPR certification.
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