What are the responsibilities and job description for the Registered Nurse position at The Colony Healthcare Center?
Overview
Join our nursing team as a Registered Nurse (RN) and deliver attentive, evidence-informed care across patient needs and care settings. You’ll assess patients, coordinate treatment, document accurately, and communicate with patients, families, and the care team. Your impact: Timely assessment and coordinated care help patients and families make informed decisions and support safer transitions between care settings.
Responsibilities
- Assess patient condition, obtain vital signs, identify changes, and escalate concerns using appropriate emergency response procedures.
- Administer medications, injections, and intravenous (IV) infusions; perform IV insertion, catheter care, and other nursing procedures within your scope and protocols.
- Coordinate patient care, intake, discharge planning, case management, and referrals with the interdisciplinary team.
- Maintain accurate medical documentation and electronic health records (EHR), protect patient privacy under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and follow infection-control and aseptic technique standards.
- Educate patients and caregivers on care plans, medications, nutrition, and health management.
Qualifications
- Required: Current registered nurse licensure for the applicable jurisdiction, basic life support (BLS), and demonstrated patient assessment, medication administration, nursing, and medical documentation skills.
- Preferred: Hospital, acute care, inpatient, outpatient, clinic, medical office, primary care, emergency medicine, intensive care unit (ICU), pediatrics, geriatrics, long-term care, home care, hospice, or senior care experience.
- Familiarity with Epic, Cerner, Athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, or other electronic medical record (EMR) and EHR systems is an asset.
- Additional relevant experience may include triage, telemetry, dialysis, cardiac catheterization, labor and delivery, operating room (OR), trauma care, behavioral health, developmental disabilities, dementia care, or assisted living.
- Knowledge of anatomy, physiology, medical terminology, diagnostic evaluation, infection control, and applicable coding or documentation standards is valued.
Work Location: In person