Charge Nurse - RN or LVN

At The Springs Healthcare & Rehabilitation, our associates are our most valuable asset! Each associate provides a service that directly or indirectly affects patients, families, other team members, and the public. We strive to excel in providing the highest quality healthcare and customer service possible, which is incumbent upon the excellence and commitment of our leaders and caregivers. We are looking for compassionate and skilled RN’s or LVN’s to become part of The Sylvan Shores clinical team! Our RN/LVN’s work to ensure that each resident attains or maintains the highest possible level of functioning by providing quality nursing care and by working with the interdisciplinary team to ensure a holistic approach to patient care.

Responsibilities

• Follow established standards of nursing practices and implement community programs, policies and procedures.
• Obtain report from the nurse being relieved and provide report to the nurse coming on duty; record sufficient information to implement appropriate follow‑up action as necessary.
• Conduct resident rounds daily, reporting problems to the supervisor and initiating corrective action.
• Identify safety hazards and initiate corrective action immediately.
• Identify resident problems and emergency situations and initiate emergency care per physician’s orders in the absence of a physician.
• Provide supervision to direct‑care associates providing resident care.
• Attend staff meetings, in‑service classes and committee meetings as assigned.
• Review the Glucometer Control Log prior to testing for blood sugar levels.
• Follow staffing guidelines and make nursing assignments according to qualifications of staff and characteristics of the resident population.
• Comply with community processes related to pain assessment, management and documentation, providing treatments and delivering medications.
• Administer and document direct resident care, medications and treatments per physicians’ orders and accurately record all care provided.
• Provide instruction for appropriate nursing care to licensed nurses and nursing assistants.
• Document assessment of residents as assigned, in accordance with licensure.
• Report untoward findings to the physician and your supervisor.
• Observe the 5 RIGHTS of medication/treatment administration.
• Promptly report changes in residents’ conditions to the physician, Director of Nursing Services and responsible party, and take follow‑up action as necessary; document notifications in the resident’s clinical record.
• Follow community admission procedures and communicate resident admission to other departments, including rehabilitation.
• Competently perform basic nursing skills as per licensure.
• Follow community discharge/transfer procedures and coordinate discharge/transfer with other departments, physicians and ancillary service providers.
• Supervise response to a resident’s call for assistance.
• Listen to resident, family, or physician concerns and initiate corrective action and/or report concerns to the Nursing Supervisor.
• Count narcotics, check the emergency kit and exchange keys each shift.
• Check meal trays and nourishment to monitor proper diet is served and residents are assisted as necessary.
• Order, receive and store medications appropriately.
• Observe community processes related to signing out narcotics and administration thereof, including shift narcotic count and documentation.
• Notify the physician, when necessary, of changes in conditions, weight, medication errors, medication unavailability, abnormal lab/X‑Ray results and any other unusual observations.
• Document daily notes on unstable residents, changes in resident condition, Medicare residents and recently admitted residents.
• Be responsible for the safety of residents and associates under supervision.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Unencumbered RN/LVN license.
• Proof of current CPR certification.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule.
• Minimum 2 years experience as an RN/LVN in a clinical setting (preferred).
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Reliable transportation.

Benefits

• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) and holidays.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Company‑paid life insurance & LTD/AD&D insurance.
• Short‑Term Disability.
• Supplemental insurances (hospital indemnity, cancer policies, legal plans, & more).

Pay

Very Competitive Pay

Schedule

• 6 a.m. – 2 p.m., Monday‑Friday
• 2 p.m. – 10 p.m., Monday‑Friday
• Double weekends, 6 a.m. – 10 p.m., full‑time