Treatment Nurse

Skilled Nursing Professionals•Harlingen, TX

22h•Onsite

About The Position

Golden Palms Rehabilitation and Retirement is seeking a Treatment Nurse (RN/LVN) for a Full Time Day Shift position. This role involves maintaining department supplies and equipment, organizing and filing medical records, assisting with resident transport, and serving as an information resource for patients, families, physicians, and outside reviewers. The position also includes clerical duties for admissions, discharges, transfers, and deaths, such as transcribing orders, ordering medications, and managing dietary and therapy changes. Data entry for lab and special examination requisitions is also part of the role. The ideal candidate will greet visitors and new admissions with warmth and friendliness, assist with any needs, and ensure admission orders and daily doctor's telephone orders are transcribed and verified promptly. Completing medical records by reviewing and assembling paperwork into a permanent folder is essential. The role also involves ordering necessary labs and ultrasounds for new admissions. The Treatment Nurse will assist the Director of Nursing Services in managing the Nursing Services Department, conferring with the Director of Nursing Services and/or other licensed nursing personnel regarding dermatologic disorders, and consulting with the Care Planning Team on assessment evaluations and skin care treatment plans. They will initiate requests for consultation or referral, respond to requests from residents, physicians, or nursing staff, and examine residents and their records to identify and manage skin disorders. The nurse will implement and maintain policies and procedures related to skin care treatments, interpret these to relevant parties, and make reports/recommendations to the attending physician, Medical Director, or DON. Participation in the interdisciplinary Care Plan Team is expected. Specific duties include identifying, managing, and treating skin disorders and lesions, providing assessment and diagnostic services, performing quarterly physical dermatologic examinations, and providing therapeutic services under physician supervision. Ensuring residents with decubitus ulcers receive appropriate care, giving direct nursing care in emergencies, assisting with resident admissions/discharges, and participating in resident rehabilitation activities are also key responsibilities. The role includes providing preventive health care services, making recommendations on nutrition and skin disorder prevention, and educating residents and families on health maintenance. Participation in in-service training and educational programs for residents and families regarding skin care is also required. The facility is committed to a culture of compassion, integrity, innovation, and learning, as embodied by their CAPLICO principles (Customer Second, Accountability, Passion For Learning, Love One Another, Intelligent Risk Taking, Celebration, Ownership).

Requirements

RN/LVN
Eager to make a difference
Pledge to live CAPLICO

Nice To Haves

Mentorship and training for new graduates
Career advancement opportunities

Responsibilities

Maintain department’s supplies and keeps equipment operational.
Organize, label and file charts and medical records.
Help transport residents as needed.
Act as an information resource for patients, families, visitors, physicians, and outside reviewers in person and/or via telephone.
Complete clerical duties for admissions, discharges, transfers, deaths and passes such as transcribing orders to medication/treatment sheets, ordering medications, dietary changes, therapies etc.
Complete lab and special examination requisitions and data entry, as it pertains to the medical records department.
Greet visitors, doctors, and new admissions with warmth and friendliness; helping with any assistance needed.
Transcribe and verify admission orders and daily doctor’s telephone orders will be verified and transcribed in a timely manner.
Complete medical records by reviewing and assembling paperwork in proper order into a permanent folder.
Order labs, ultrasounds etc. required for new admissions.
Assists the Director of Nursing Services in managing and directing the Nursing Services Department.
Confer with the Director of Nursing Services and/or other licensed nursing personnel regarding dermatologic disorders of residents in the facility.
Consult with the Care Planning Team concerning assessment evaluations and assist in planning and developing the skin care treatment to be performed for the resident.
Initiate requests for consultation or referral.
Respond to requests from the resident, physician, or nursing staff.
Examine the resident and his/her records and charts, and discriminate between normal and abnormal findings, in order to recognize when to refer the resident to a physician for evaluation, supervision, or directions.
Implement and maintain established policies and procedures relative to skin care treatments.
Interpret these to the physician, resident family members, and public as appropriate.
Make written and oral reports/recommendations to the attending physician, Medical Director, or the DON concerning the status and care of the residents.
Serve on the interdisciplinary Care Plan Team and work with the Interdisciplinary Care Plan Team in developing a comprehensive assessment and care plan for assigned residents.
Identify, manage, and treat specific skin disorders and primary and secondary lesions, such as skin abrasions, foot problems such as corns and calluses, decubitus ulcers, bacterial, parasitic and viral skin infections, scaling popular diseases, and benign tumors.
Provide assessment and diagnostic services to residents.
Perform an assessment evaluation using techniques including observation, inspection and palpation.
Complete a quarterly physical dermatologic examination of the resident and record the results with the assessment.
Provide therapeutic services.
Confer with the Care Planning Team in the development of the care plan.
Provide, within established protocols and under the supervision of the physician, treatment for uncomplicated dermatologic disorders as directed by the attending physician or Medical Director.
Ensure that residents with decubitus ulcers receive appropriate prophylaxis and treatment, such as daily inspection, turning and activity, a well-planned diet, and maintaining a clean, dry bed.
Give direct physical and psychological nursing care in emergencies, as well as in the presence of illness or disability in order to maintain life, provide comfort, reduce stress, and enhance the resident’s ability to cope.
Assist in the admission or discharge of residents.
Work with other health agencies and family members in the physical and emotional transitions of admission, care, and discharge of residents as necessary.
Assist in resident rehabilitation activities. Where required, perform range of motion, assist in ambulation, provide emotional support.
Monitor the results of physical therapy activities.
Provide preventive health care services.
Make recommendations to the resident concerning nutrition, prevention of common skin disorders, etc.
Provide information to resident and family members of prevention techniques and other ways to maintain or improve the general health and psychosocial status of the resident.
Participate as requested by the Medical Director or Director of Nursing Services in the planning and conducting of in-service training classes concerning dermatologic nursing skills and procedures used within the facility.
Participate in educational programs for residents and their family members relative to skin care when a resident is being discharged to home.
Ensures that nursing department employment actions are administered fairly and in compliance with the facility’s Policy Against Discrimination, Harassment and Retaliation.