Night shift Registered Nurse (RN)

Registered Nurse Full time Nights

Position Summary :

The Registered Nurse is responsible for performing a variety of duties to provide quality nursing care to residents and to coordinate total nursing care for residents; for participating with the Director of Nursing and the Unit Managers in establishing specific goals; for ensuring compliance with all operating policies and procedures and Michigan Department of Health & Human Services regulations and Federal Health Care Administration regulations; for communicating with and supervising appropriate personnel; for providing daily reports and other periodic reports; and for performing all the duties of a Certified Nurse Aide when required.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities :

• Assess resident conditions to implement intervention and develop Care Plans. Accurately record resident observations in PCC and follow through on Care Plans. Assure facility medical records policies and procedures are adhered to.
• Make regular rounds of residents independently and with a physician; observe and evaluate resident symptoms, progress, and reactions to treatments and medications and implements interventions as necessary.
• Provide preventative, supportive, maintenance, and rehabilitative care directed to the physiologic and psychosocial needs and well-being of residents.
• Provide care to residents by performing a variety of treatments, including changing dressing, cleansing and / or irrigating wounds and incisions, performing Foley Catheter irrigations, IV therapy, and administering tube feedings, chest tubes and peritoneal dialysis.
• Request and assure supplies and medical equipment are available to perform care and treatments as required by the resident.

Schedule appointments, physicians, therapy, and consults. Document in appointment book.

Admit, transfer, and discharge residents.

Weekly skin assessment to monitor occurrence of pressure injuries or other skin conditions, providing the Director of Nursing written data on the number of occurrences.

Know and support facility philosophy, standards, policies and procedures.

Inform Director of Nursing when staffing requirements are not met.

Adheres to the Nurse Practice Act.

Required / Desired Qualifications :

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