RN/LPN Opportunities - All Shifts

CENTURY CARE MANAGEMENT INC•New Bern, NC

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse (RN)/Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) is an essential member of the interdisciplinary care team, providing direct nursing care to residents in a skilled nursing and long-term care setting. The RN/LPN administers medications and treatments, monitors residents for changes in condition, communicates clinical concerns, assists with individualized plans of care, and directs CNAs and other nursing personnel as permitted by scope of practice. The role promotes residents’ dignity, independence, safety, comfort, and quality of life. Nursing care must comply with professional standards, provider orders, facility policies and procedures, and applicable state and federal requirements. The RN/LPN is expected to demonstrate compassion, sound clinical judgment, effective communication, teamwork, accountability, and a resident-centered approach.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited program.
Valid North Carolina State Board for Nursing license.
Completion of Category II intravenous protocol.
CPR/BLS certification.
Ability to access, plan, carry out, and evaluate patient care plans.
Proficiency in medication administration, vital sign monitoring, and assisting doctors during treatment.
Ability to accurately document resident care using electronic and/or paper documentation systems.
Ability to communicate effectively and professionally with residents, families, coworkers, supervisors, and interdisciplinary team members.
Ability to maintain resident confidentiality, privacy, dignity, and rights.
Ability to work effectively on a team and assist coworkers when resident care needs require it.
Ability to manage multiple responsibilities while maintaining attention to resident safety and quality of care.
Ability to remain calm and respond appropriately in emergencies or stressful situations.
Ability to perform the physical functions needed to provide resident care, with or without reasonable accommodation, including frequent standing, walking, bending, reaching, kneeling, stooping, pushing, pulling, and assisting with resident mobility.
Ability to assist with lifting, transferring, repositioning, and transporting residents using appropriate assistance, equipment, and safe resident-handling techniques.
Ability to lift 50 pounds; moving, lifting, or transferring patients may involve lifting up to 100 pounds.
Ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry patients and to use abdominal and lower back muscles over time without fatigue.
Ability to stand for extended periods and bend, stoop, stretch, twist, sit, and reach; fine motor skills and visual acuity.

Nice To Haves

Previous experience in a skilled nursing facility, long-term care, rehabilitation, or assisted living facility is preferred.

Responsibilities

Provide direct nursing care in accordance with individualized plans of care, provider orders, facility policies, and scope of practice.
Collect and document resident information and participate in observation and assessment as permitted by scope of practice.
Monitor residents’ physical, mental, behavioral, and psychosocial condition and promptly report significant changes.
Administer medications, injections, treatments, enteral feedings, and other ordered nursing interventions within scope of practice.
Perform wound care and monitor wounds and skin integrity.
Monitor pain and residents’ responses to medications, treatments, and nursing interventions.
Obtain and monitor vital signs, blood glucose, weights, intake and output, and other clinical information.
Recognize signs and symptoms requiring further assessment or medical intervention and communicate concerns promptly.
Notify providers, responsible parties, supervisors, and care team members about changes in resident condition as required.
Implement new and revised provider orders accurately and promptly.
Monitor residents after falls, incidents, medication changes, new treatments, hospital returns, and other significant clinical events.
Assist with admissions, transfers, discharges, and transitions of care.
Assist with implementing and evaluating individualized plans of care with the RN and interdisciplinary team.
Participate in fall prevention, skin integrity, infection prevention, pain management, restorative nursing, and other clinical programs.
Respond to emergencies and initiate emergency procedures within training and scope of practice.
Follow medication administration and safety procedures, and accurately complete MARs and TARs.
Monitor medication and treatment effectiveness, side effects, adverse reactions, and other responses; report concerns according to facility policy.
Communicate medication or treatment concerns with pharmacy, providers, and nursing leadership as appropriate.
Ensure medications and treatment supplies are stored and secured according to facility procedures.
Direct and supervise CNAs and other nursing personnel as permitted by applicable requirements and facility policy.
Delegate tasks appropriately based on resident needs, staff competency, scope of practice, and applicable requirements.
Monitor assigned resident care tasks for safe, timely, and appropriate completion; serve as a resource to CNAs.
Promote teamwork, accountability, and respectful communication among nursing staff.
Assist with orientation, education, and support of newly hired nursing personnel as assigned.
Communicate staffing, resident care, and operational concerns to nursing leadership.
Serve as charge nurse when assigned and consistent with scope of practice and facility policy.