Registered Nurse

Summary

The Registered Nurse will deliver care to patients using the nursing process of assessment, planning, intervention, implementation, and evaluation. Responsibilities include interacting effectively with patients, significant others, and other healthcare team members.

Essential Functions

• Assigns tasks to nursing personnel and supervises their performance.
• Develops and coordinates a plan of care for each resident, collaborating with allied health professionals.
• Administers prescribed medications and provides treatments and nursing care as needed.
• Notifies physicians, families, and staff about resident conditions and needs.
• Aids LPNs and CNAs in acquiring knowledge through direct instruction and discussions.
• Documents relevant information accurately in the resident’s medical record.
• Carries out restorative nursing activities and instructs staff, residents, and families as necessary.
• Assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates nursing care to meet immediate and long-range needs.
• Monitors resident care quality and ensures orders are carried out.
• Alerts supervisor if staffing issues arise.
• Pursues further knowledge and professional growth in long-term care and geriatric nursing.
• Observes and reports potential or existing dangers to staff and supervisors.
• Maintains compliance with departmental policies, state and federal regulations, and fire/disaster plans.
• Collaborates with other departments to ensure comprehensive care for residents.
• Demonstrates concern for and preserves the dignity of all individuals.
• Incorporates Green House concepts into care provided and interactions.
• Reports for duty promptly and reviews previous shift’s resident information.

Competencies

• Client Focus
• Teamwork Orientation
• Problem Solving/Analysis
• Communication Proficiency
• Learning Orientation
• Ethical Conduct
• Stress Management/Composure
• Discretion

Work Environment

The incumbent will be exposed to virus, disease, and infection from patients and specimens. Extended work periods may be required. Traumatic situations, including psychiatric, dismembered, and deceased patients, may occur.

Physical Demands

Regularly talks and hears. Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. The position requires intermittent physical activity, including standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, and crouching, as well as lifting and supporting patients.

Physical Activity Level

Moderate physical activity performing somewhat strenuous daily activities of a primarily productive/technical nature.

Required Education and Experience

- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing. - Valid registration as a Registered Nurse in the state of Wisconsin. - Knowledge of the nursing process and its application, including assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of nursing care.

Preferred Education and Experience

- Previous experience in a skilled nursing facility.

Reasoning Ability

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Planning/Organization

Handles multiple tasks simultaneously.

AAP/EEO Statement

Miravida Living is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.