Registered Nurse

Iconma Portal•Columbus, GA

About The Position

Our client, a healthcare company, is seeking a Registered Nurse for its Columbus, Georgia location. The Registered Nurse assesses the health of people served, implements care plans, supports health maintenance and disease prevention, and may provide case management. Daily assignments may also involve supervising care plans and staff members. The role supports people who are well or chronically or acutely ill in a community or small-facility setting, and works with other health professionals and providers to plan, implement, and evaluate services addressing their health needs.

Requirements

HCHB experience or knowledge.
OASIS experience or knowledge.
Wound vac experience or knowledge.
Home care experience.

Responsibilities

Observe, assess, plan, implement, and evaluate nursing support for well, chronically ill, or acutely ill individuals in a community or small-facility setting.
Work with other health professionals and providers to plan, implement, and evaluate programs and services addressing the health needs of people served.
Coordinate communications and actions across disciplines regarding health and safety supports.
Ensure medications are ordered, reviewed, monitored, discontinued, and, when necessary, disposed of as prescribed by physicians.
Ensure policies address medication administration, errors, storage and access, and destruction; review them at least annually and revise as needed.
Report changes in clients’ conditions to physicians.
Transcribe or ensure transcription of physician phone orders and other medically related reports.
Complete required daily, monthly, quarterly, and annual nursing documents.
Document individuals’ health status routinely in nurses’ notes.
Maintain furnishings, equipment, and supplies according to guidelines for preventing the spread of disease.
Direct and supervise licensed practical or vocational nurses as needed.
Ensure health-related appointments are scheduled and completed, and that appropriate responses to findings are implemented promptly.
Communicate with inpatient nursing staff and discharge coordinators when individuals served are hospitalized.
Provide new-employee training and annual recertification training on health- and safety-related topics.
Ensure unlicensed staff are trained on person-specific health maintenance, safety, and disease-prevention needs.
Assess the health of people served and implement their care plans.
Ensure health maintenance and disease prevention and/or provide case management.
Supervise care plans and staff members as needed.