What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Education position at Maple Lawn Senior Care?
Maple Lawn Senior Care is looking for an Director of Education to join our growing team! Our mission is to provide fine quality healthcare, housing and support services for area seniors in an individualized, dignified, and homelike manner.
Benefits
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Competitive Wages
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Health Care
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HSA
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Certification Assistance
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Retirement Plan
Responsibilities
- Assist Director of Nursing, or designee, with Quality Assurance data collection, analysis, and quarterly meetings.
- Take lead role in developing nursing skills to demonstrate competency - includes hire, routine, and as needed.
- Demonstrate complex understanding and development of resident's care plans.
- Guide and support floor staff on updated clinical processes and procedures.
- Evaluate, track, and create treatment plans for wounds under direction of physician/wound specialist, when necessary.
- Communicate with physicians for various incidents, acute findings, etc.
- Understand and implement federal, state, and local regulations required under facility licensure.
- Assume on-call responsibility according to current rotation (typically every 3-5 weeks).
- If shifts are vacant and not filled internally or by an agency, management level staff are expected to fill floor shifts, when able.
- Any other assigned duties per Director of Nursing, or Campus Administrator.
Qualifications
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Current Minnesota licensure as a Registered Nurse
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Adequate to maintain licensure and as approved by the Administrator
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Understands concepts related to nursing and has ability to think and discover and propose alternative methods.
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Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office 365 products such as calendar, email, WORD, Exel, and online electronic medical records.
- Must be able to give instructions well and enjoy working with the elderly.
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Must have excellent interpersonal and management skills.
We are an equal opportunity employer and prohibit discrimination/harassment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.