Career Details
Full Time - 40 hrs/wk (6a-2p) St. Marys Posted on 8/13/2021
- Monitor residents’ status including vital signs, significant lab values, nutrition, and activity.
- Completes nursing assessments according to facility policies and procedures and standards of nursing care.
- Record all significant observation in the nurses notes.
- Receives all new orders and follows up appropriately.
- Inform the dietary department of any new admission or dietary change of a current resident via the communication slip.
- Completes incident report when incidents occur on their shift; notifies physician and family members: and, starts incident investigation.
- Administers medications per physician orders, documents on the resident MAR and completes any other needed monitoring such as required blood pressures with medicine administration.
- Communicates with the interdisciplinary care plan team to insure that residents needs are appropriately planned for in the care plan and the plan is resident directed.
- Completes skilled admission and discharge sheets including contacting appropriate pharmacy.
- Maintains a safe environment for residents, visitors and staff and is knowledgeable of OSHA, state and other regulatory requirements.
- Reduces the risk of health care acquired infections through compliance with current CDC hand hygiene guidelines and use of Standard Precautions.
- Ensures nursing procedures are followed by nursing service personnel, and it reflects the day to day nursing care procedures used by the facility.
- Directs the day-to-day functions of the nursing activities in accordance with current rules, regulations, and guidelines that govern the facility, including making of work assignments to nursing assistants.