Registered Nurse-Day Shift Full Time

Shady Lawn•Vicksburg, MS

12h

About The Position

The Registered Nurse provides direct nursing care to residents and supervises the day-to-day nursing activities performed by licensed practical nurses and nursing assistants. The role includes coordinating resident care, administering medications and treatments, maintaining accurate clinical documentation, and supporting the facility’s care plans, quality assurance, safety, and infection-control programs. The nurse organizes and assigns shift work, provides leadership and guidance to nursing personnel, monitors care and staff performance, and communicates with residents, families, physicians, facility leadership, and other departments. The position also supports resident admissions, transfers, and discharges; participates in assessments and care-plan updates; and helps ensure residents’ rights, dignity, privacy, and individual care needs are respected. The role is based across office and nursing-service areas, including drug rooms, nurses’ stations, and resident rooms. Work involves frequent movement and interruptions, interaction with residents and visitors in varied circumstances, and possible exposure to infectious materials, hazardous chemicals, and other workplace hazards. Work beyond normal hours, temporary work in other positions, and emergency callback may be required.

Requirements

Nursing degree from an accredited college or university, or graduation from an approved school of professional nursing.
Current, active, unencumbered license to practice as an RN in the state.
At least one year of nursing experience.
At least six months of experience as a staff nurse in a long-term care facility.
Supervisory experience with nursing assistants.
Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English.
Knowledge of nursing and medical practices and procedures, and laws, regulations, and guidelines applicable to long-term care.
Ability to deal tactfully with personnel, residents, families, visitors, government agency personnel, and the public.
Ability and willingness to work harmoniously with, coach, and supervise other personnel.
Ability to plan, organize, develop, implement, and interpret programs, goals, objectives, policies, and procedures for quality care.
Patience, tact, a cheerful disposition, enthusiasm, and willingness to handle difficult personnel matters.
Willingness to seek out new methods and principles and incorporate them into nursing practices.
Ability to communicate information about a resident’s condition.
Ability to move intermittently during the workday and cope with the mental and emotional stress of the position.
Ability to see and hear, or use prosthetics that enable these senses to function adequately for the position.
Ability to work independently and demonstrate flexibility and personal integrity.
Ability to work with ill, disabled, elderly, emotionally upset, and sometimes hostile people.
Must meet the facility’s general health requirements, including medical and physical examination.
Ability to push, pull, move, or lift at least five pounds to a height of three feet and carry or move it at least five feet.
Ability to assist with resident evacuation during emergencies.
Must not pose a direct threat to the health or safety of others in the workplace.

Nice To Haves

Long-term care and MDS/RAI experience are strongly desired.

Responsibilities

Organize and assign shift duties to distribute workload according to staff qualifications and facility needs.
Implement facility policies and procedures, and ensure assigned nursing personnel follow them.
Coordinate nursing services with other resident services and support the residents’ individual care plans.
Participate in quality assurance activities, facility surveys, discharge planning, and resident admissions, transfers, and discharges.
Communicate with physicians, residents, families, the Director of Nursing, the Assistant Director of Nursing, and other facility personnel as needed.
Maintain accurate nursing notes, resident status documentation, monthly and quarterly summaries, physician orders, medication and treatment records, transfer forms, and incident reports.
Review resident records and care plans, ensure documentation reflects care provided, and report discrepancies or significant changes to nursing leadership.
Prepare and administer prescribed medications, injections, IV fluid therapy, and treatments; supervise treatments and maintain accurate narcotic records.
Monitor medication, supply, and equipment stocks and order items as necessary under facility policy.
Make regular rounds to check resident care and the work of nursing assistants, and observe and report changes in residents’ physical or emotional condition.
Provide or coordinate nursing procedures and services, including catheterization, tube feedings, suction, dressing changes, specimen collection, vital signs, and care of seriously ill or dying residents, as required.
Notify physicians and next of kin about accidents, incidents, or significant changes in resident condition, as appropriate.
Ensure resident care follows care plans and residents’ wishes, and that residents who cannot call for assistance are checked frequently.
Support restorative and rehabilitative programs, social and activity schedules, and resident and family communication.
Develop work assignments, orient and coach staff, participate in training, conduct performance evaluations, address complaints, and recommend staffing or workforce changes.
Promote respectful, private, and dignified care; uphold resident rights and confidentiality; and report and investigate allegations of abuse or misappropriation of property.
Monitor safety, sanitation, universal precautions, infection-control practices, fire and disaster preparedness, and safe equipment use.
Assist with MDS, RAPS, triggers, resident assessments, and care-plan scheduling and revisions.
Attend continuing education and in-service programs and report occupational exposures in accordance with facility procedures.
Assist in evacuating residents during emergencies.