RN 12 hour shifts - eve/noc shift

 

The primary responsibility of a Registered Nurse is to implement and maintain established nursing objectives and standards, provide direct nursing care to the residents and supervise the day-to-day nursing activities performed by the CNA’s.

 Duties and Responsibilities:

• Implement and maintain established nursing practice objectives and standards.
• Complete required recordkeeping while admitting, transferring, and discharging residents.
• Coordinate with nursing staff and support personnel daily to plan shift services, programs, and activities to ensure the resident’s total regimen of patient care is maintained.
• Provide direct patient care to residents.
• Prepare and administer medications and review medication cards for completeness and accuracy.
• Review patient care plans for appropriate resident goals, problems, approaches, and revisions based on nursing needs.
• Plan, organize, develop, implement, and interpret programs, goals, objectives, policies, and procedures necessary for providing quality patient care.
• Supervise the day-to-day nursing and caregiving activities performed by CNAs.
• Provide guidance and leadership to nursing personnel and make daily rounds of your unit to ensure staff are providing direct care in accordance with resident’s care plan and wishes.
• Develop and maintain rapport and employee culture with nursing staff, other department personnel, patients and residents, family members, and all other individuals involved in patient care.
• Chart nurses’ notes in an informative and descriptive manner that reflects the care provided to the resident and resident’s response to care.
• Participate in facility surveys by authorized government agencies.
• Maintain confidentiality of all resident care information in accordance with HIPAA guidelines.

Education: 

• Nursing degree from an accredited college or university.
• Current, unencumbered, active license to practice as an RN in this state.

Experience:

• Knowledge of nursing and medical practices and procedures, as well as laws, regulations, and guidelines that pertain to nursing care communities.
• Experience with electronic medical records and computer documentation systems.

Avamere Living is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify.