RN Citizens Shoreham ICF

AHRC Nassau•Shoreham, NY

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Under the direction of the Assistant Director of Nursing, the RN is responsible for ensuring the proper delivery of nursing services in compliance with OPWDD and DOH regulation. This role practices and promotes the agency’s mission statement in every interaction. The RN provides hands-on clinical support to people supported, including assessments, medication administration, responding to emergencies, and performing nursing skills within their scope of practice. They provide clinical direction to LPN & AMAP staff, ensuring nursing skills are performed to standards. The RN ensures the implementation of proper principles of primary nursing, in accordance with OPWDD and DOH regulation, ensuring that all people’s health needs are met in the home in which they are assigned. This position is on call for the program on a rotating 24/7 basis to assist with triage of medical concerns when an RN isn’t immediately on site. The RN completes a plan of nursing services (PONS) for each person supported on their caseload and ensures that all required documents are thorough, complete, and up to date (e.g., CFA, PONS, Braden scale). Training is initiated and completed every time there is a change in a person’s status and no less than annually. The RN ensures that all consultations, lab work, medical visits, medications, etc., are completed as ordered for a designated caseload. They participate in all nursing staff meetings and attend team meetings, administrative and management meetings to communicate medical information as needed and seek recommendations to improve medical care to individuals in each program. The RN ensures that the nursing department adheres to all ICF regulations and participates in ongoing surveys by OPWDD. They confer with individuals who receive supports and services and their family members/correspondents by telephone and scheduled treatment team meetings to serve as an insightful resource and to discuss their specific questions related to their medical concerns. The RN ensures that work-related safety procedures are in place and are being adhered to by staff as it relates to workplace safety and infection control. This position requires regular and substantial unsupervised or unrestricted physical contact with people receiving services and, therefore, is subject to successful completion of a fingerprint/criminal background check. The RN reports to Justice Center as a mandated reporter if there is reasonable cause to suspect abuse or neglect or a potentially hazardous work environment. Additionally, they follow all agency incident policy and procedures. The RN adheres to all regulations, agency policy and procedures, the employee handbook, and agency and program training requirements. Performs other duties as instructed by supervisor.

Requirements

NYS Registered Nurse License
1 year experience preferred but not required

Responsibilities

Practices and promotes Citizens mission statement in every interaction.
Through family and community engagement, Citizens supports People to live the life they choose.
Provides hands on clinical support to people supported including but not limited to assessments, medication administration, responding to emergencies, nursing skills within scope of practice.
Provides clinical direction to LPN & AMAP staff and ensure that nursing skills are be performed to standards.
Ensures the implementation of proper principles of primary nursing, in accordance with OPWDD and DOH regulation, ensuring that all people’s health needs are met in the home in which they are assigned.
Is on call to the program on a rotating 24/7 to assist with triage of medical concerns when an RN isn’t immediately on site.
Completes a plan of nursing services (PONS) for each person supported on their caseload and ensures that all required documents are thorough, complete and up to date (i.e. CFA, PONS, Braden scale).
Initiate and complete training every time there is a change in a person’s status and no less than annually.
Ensures that all consultations, lab work, medical visits, medications etc are completed as ordered for a designated caseload.
Participate in all nursing staff meetings & attend team meetings, administrative and management meetings to communicate medical information as needed and seek recommendations to improve medical care to individuals in each program.
Ensures that nursing department adherence to all ICF regulations and participates in ongoing surveys by OPWDD.
Confers with individuals who receive supports and services and their family members/correspondents by telephone and scheduled treatment team meetings to serve as an insightful resource and to discuss their specific questions related to their medical concerns.
Ensure that work-related safety procedures are in place and are being adhered to by staff as it relates to workplace safety and infection control.
Reports to Justice Center as a mandated reporter if there is reasonable cause to suspect abuse or neglect or a potentially hazardous work environment.
Follows all agency incident policy and procedures.
Adheres to all regulations, agency policy and procedures, the employee handbook, and agency and program training requirements.
Performs other duties as instructed by supervisor.