What are the responsibilities and job description for the Registered Nurse (RN) position at Tampico Healthcare Center?
Full-Time: NOC shift
QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS:
QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS:
- 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 IV’s.
- 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 demonstrates the ability to identify therapeutic resident care issues/problems and determines measures and interventions to promote, maintain, and/or restore health of residents.
- Assures that the rights of residents are respected and maintained by allowing for privacy and dignity in the provision of care.
- Identifies resident/family educational needs; initiates and provides individualized teaching which considers the functional/developmental age and needs of the resident. Evaluates and documents the effectiveness of the education provided.
- Demonstrates knowledge of age specific care, including but not limited to identifying safety measures, physiological normal values/reading; and assessing skin integrity, behavior, motor skills and/or activities that place the residents at risk as well as communicates effectively in a clear, concise, and understandable manner.
- Demonstrates knowledge and appropriate assessment of signs/symptoms of abuse and/or neglect of residents. Reports and documents suspected abuse/neglect in accordance with facility policy and regulatory guidelines.
- Demonstrates good oral and written communication skills with residents, families, physicians, additional healthcare providers, and co-workers.
- Timely, accurately, and thoroughly prepares documentation in a manner that conforms to prescribed style and format, and to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community.