Schedule:
Overnight Shift - 11pm - 7am
Week 1: Sunday, Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Week 2: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Hours: 40 hours
Responsibilities:
- Participate in and assist supervisor in the day-to-day functions of the Nursing Center.
- Write progress notes, enter orders, identify advanced directives, and print necessary paperwork for appointments utilizing Sigmacare.
- Complete admission orders, nursing history, and assessments and set schedules for Coumadin and sliding scale insulin.
- Modify C.N.A. assignments and pull off appropriate reports.
- Retrieve messages and reset passwords in Sigmacare.
- Assist in developing methods for coordinating nursing services with other services to ensure the continuity of the residents' total regimen of care.
- Ensure that all nursing service personnel are following their respective job description.
- Perform administrative duties such as completing medical forms, reports, evaluation, studies, charting, etc., as necessary.
- Create and maintain an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest and positive emphasis, as well as a calm environment throughout the department and facility.
- Meet with shift staff on a regularly scheduled basis to assist in identifying and correcting problems areas, and/or the involvement of services.
- Make periodic rounds of the unit to assess resident needs.
- Participate in the development of written preliminary and comprehensive assessments of the nursing needs of each resident as necessary.
- Review resident care plans for appropriate resident goals, problems, approaches, and revisions based on nursing needs.
- Ensure that all personnel involved in providing care to the resident are aware of the care plan and that care plans are used in administering daily care to the resident.
- Write nursing progress notes to support the care plan.
- Ability to monitor medication oversight & treatment schedules to assure that medications are being taken as ordered and that treatments are provided as scheduled.
- Assist in finding coverage for sick calls on your shift.
- Report potential problems to the Director of Nursing Services and assist in developing and implementing corrective action.
- Keep the Nursing Supervisor informed of the status of residents and other related matters through written/oral reports.
- Meet with residents, and/or family members, as necessary. Report problem areas to the Nursing Supervisor.
- Consult with the resident's physician in planning resident care, treatment, rehabilitation, etc., as necessary.
- Work with the facility's consultants and implement those changes authorized by the Nursing Supervisor.
- Make independent decisions concerning nursing care.
- Obtain sputum, urine and other lab tests as ordered. Take TPR, blood pressures, etc., as necessary. Participate in completing treatments and administering medications as per physician order.
- Respond to emergency calls to Residential apartments when assigned.
- Assist with QAPI process as assigned.
- Other related duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Hold current nursing license in Commonwealth of Massachusetts (LPN or RN).
- Experience working in a nursing setting with the elderly preferred.
- Attention to detail and the ability to provide compassionate care required.
- Must be able to show compassion, understanding, and patience when dealing with residents.
