Registered Nurse (New Grads considered for some positions including Assistant Director of Nursing career tracks)
This RN will ensure that quality care is
delivered through assessment and monitoring of staff performance,
physician contact, care planning and daily resident assessment. This
position also provides direct care to residents. All this is done
according to nursing standards of practice, standard procedures, and
established State and Federal regulations for skilled nursing
facilities.
***This position has the opportunity to fast track your career path from Staff RN to Assistant Director of Nursing to Director of Nursing***
In this role, the Registered Nurse will:
- Provide routine daily direction and monitor the work of the LPNs and nursing assistants on the unit, assuring a high standard of nursing care and satisfactory completion of tasks.
- Assist in the orientation of new nursing personnel and reinforce training standards to maintain a high quality of care.
- Assist in motivating LPNs and CNAs assigned to the nursing unit.
- Provide explanation of nursing procedures and assistance to staff to assure ongoing understanding and training.
- Communicate on a regular basis with the Director of Nursing regarding assessments, observations, and suggestions of problem areas, resident and employee activities, concerns, needs, conditions, etc.
- Observe and evaluate residents' health, mental and emotional conditions and communicate significant changes to appropriate staff. When indicated is responsible for notifying the physician and family members according to prescribed procedures.
What is a Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)?
A skilled nursing facility is a special facility or part of a hospital that provides medically necessary professional services
from RNs, LPNs, physical and occupational therapists, speech pathologists,
and audiologists.
What is Skilled Nursing Care?
Skilled nursing care is a high
level of medical care that must be provided by trained individuals, such as
registered nurses (RNs), physical, speech, and occupational therapists. These
services can be necessary over the short term for rehabilitation from an
illness or injury, or they may be required over the long term for patients who
need care on a frequent or around-the-clock basis due to a chronic medical
condition.
Examples of skilled nursing
services include wound care, intravenous (IV) therapy, injections, physical
therapy, monitoring of vital signs, medical conditions, and equipment. Skilled nursing care is typically
provided for rehabilitation patients that do not require long-term care
services. This type of care is also referred to as post-acute care, in that it
typically is provided following an emergency hospital stay.
What is the difference between a
nursing home and a skilled nursing facility?
Skilled nursing care is typically provided for rehabilitation patients that do not require
long-term care services.
A skilled
nursing facility (SNFs)includes senior care, meal preparation,
and non-medical assistance, but also has specialized staff such as
speech-language pathologists, rehabilitation specialists, audiologists, among
others. These medical professionals are not typically staffed in a nursing
home.
Nursing home care provides permanent
custodial assistance, whereas a skilled nursing facility is more often
temporary, to solve a specific medical need or to allow recovery outside a
hospital.
Nursing
home careis similar in that residents receive care with
the presence of certified nurses, meal preparation, and non-medical assistant
like bathing; however lack the
on-site licensed medical practitioners of a skilled nursing facility. Nursing
home care provides permanent custodial assistance, whereas a skilled nursing
facility is more often temporary, to solve a specific medical need or to allow
recovery outside a hospital.
Assisted living is for seniors who do not require constant care but need
assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs), such as assistance
with eating, bathing, dressing, and medication management. Whereas skilled
nursing is a medical setting, assisted living is a residential
setting.
Requirements
The ideal candidate will have:
- Graduate of an approved school of nursing.
- Current license as a Registered Nurse in the State.
- Current CGFNS VisaScreen (apply at www.cgfns.org)
- Current US or Canadian passport
- One year nursing experience necessary.
- Devotion to standards and principles of professional nursing.
- Skill in assessing problems, planning and evaluating solutions in relationship to routine supervision of LPNs and nursing assistant and resident needs.
- Understanding, patience and tact in dealing with people.
- Must be tactful and possess excellent communication skills (written and verbal, English).
- Genuine compassion for senior adults and the disabled.
- Requires good human relation skills and the ability to monitor and direct the activities of others.
- Availability when necessary to work beyond normal working hours and in other related positions on a temporary basis; as well as availability on weekends and holidays, or on days and shifts other than those for which hired.
Benefits
For full time employees, we offer a generous benefits package that includes:
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Employer paid group term life and disability
- Paid Time Off (PTO) & six paid holidays
- 403(b) with a 3% employer match
- Various voluntary benefits:
- Life, AD&D
- Tuition assistance and scholarships
- Employee assistance program
- Legal services, home/auto insurance, discount purchasing program
- Pet Insurance
- Fitness center use at most facilities.