RN Campus Supervisor - PT - 7am-7pm - 7pm-7am

About the role

The Georgia War Veterans Home is seeking a RN Campus Supervisor to provide nursing leadership and skilled nursing care to residents under the medical direction of the residents' attending physician.

Responsibilities

• Make rounds throughout the campus ensuring that all nursing staff are performing tasks as scheduled.
• Ensure appropriate staffing levels throughout the facility and make staffing assignments as needed.
• Address emergent situations on the campus of GWVH.
• Oversee Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) and licensed nurses.
• Consult and coordinate with the interdisciplinary team (IDT) and healthcare professionals to assess, plan, implement and evaluate individualized resident care plans.
• Initiate requests for consultations or referrals as requested.
• Report any suspicion of a crime that may have been committed against a resident in the facility.
• Perform administrative duties by completing medical forms, reports, evaluations, studies, charting, etc.
• Participate in quality committees including QAPI, infection control, safety, risk management, etc.
• Serve on, participate in and attend various other committees of the facility as required and as appointed by the Administrator.
• Provide nursing services to residents in accordance with scope of practice, facility policies and professional standards of care.
• Maintain documentation of all nursing care and services provided to the residents; use nurse’s notes, flow sheets and electronic medical records according to facility protocol.
• Collaborate with hospice services to provide end-of-life palliative care as needed.
• Promote the facility falls prevention practices to maximize resident safety.
• Provide first aid to residents as necessary and according to facility protocols.
• Adhere to the facility infection prevention and control practices.
• Administer medications according to practitioner orders and report adverse consequences, side effects or any medication errors.
• Transcribe telephone, verbal, and telemedicine orders from providers as appropriate.
• Assess for and address resident pain as necessary and appropriate and consistent with provider orders.
• Provide support and assistance with resident personal care and activities of daily living (ADLs) as needed.
• Help bed-bound or chair-bound residents reposition and turn as scheduled.
• Maintain the skin health of the resident; provide preventative skin care; administer wound treatments as ordered.
• Collect and submit specimens for laboratory analysis as ordered.
• Provide nursing care that is trauma-informed and sensitive to individual experiences and triggers.
• Cooperate with other personnel to achieve department objectives and maintain good employee, interdepartmental and public relations.
• Contribute to the orientation, training and development of new nursing team members as requested.
• Attend continuing education and in-service training programs as required to provide person-centered and competent care.
• Ensure the resident environment remains as free of accident hazards as possible.
• Ensure each resident receives adequate supervision and assistive devices to prevent accidents.
• Be familiar with and use as appropriate all items of personal protective equipment (PPE) offered by the facility including masks, gowns, gloves, back brace to be worn when lifting, etc.

Requirements

• Current unencumbered active license to practice as an RN in the state of Georgia.
• Nursing degree from an accredited college or university or graduate of an approved Licensed Registered Nurse (RN) program.
• Two (2) years of experience as an RN preferred.
• One year of experience in a leadership role preferred.
• Training in rehabilitative and restorative nursing practices.
• Able to obtain and maintain an active American Heart Association BLS certification.

Qualifications

• Knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age-related needs of the residents served.
• Supportive team member, contributes to and is an example of teamwork and team concept.
• Knowledgeable of nursing and medical practices and procedures as well as laws, regulations, and guidelines that pertain to long-term care.
• Leadership and supervisory ability and willingness to work harmoniously with and supervise other personnel.
• Ability to plan, organize, develop, implement and interpret the programs, goals, objectives, policies, procedures, etc., that are necessary for providing quality care.
• Patience, tact, a cheerful disposition and enthusiasm as well as the willingness to handle difficult residents.
• Willingness to seek out new methods and principles and incorporate them into existing nursing practices.
• Ability to relate information concerning a resident's condition.
• Not posing a direct threat to the health or safety of other individuals in the workplace through words and actions.

Skills

• Reading, writing, speaking, and understanding the English language.
• Knowledge of nursing and medical practices and procedures as well as laws, regulations, and guidelines that pertain to long-term care.
• Leadership and supervisory ability.
• Patience, tact, a cheerful disposition and enthusiasm as well as the willingness to handle difficult residents.
• Ability to relate information concerning a resident's condition.
• Not posing a direct threat to the health or safety of other individuals in the workplace through words and actions.

Benefits

Details about benefits will be provided upon interview.

Pay

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Schedule

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