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About The Position

Requirements

• Current South Carolina LPN license in good standing.
• Must possess, as a minimum, a Nursing Degree from an accredited college or university, or be a graduate of an approved LPN/LVN program.
• Must possess a current, unencumbered, active license to practice as an LPN/LVN in this state.
• Must be able to read, write, speak, and understand the English language.
• Ability to read technical procedures.
• Ability to read and comprehend policy and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from managers and employees.
• Must be able to relate information concerning a resident’s condition.
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions to practical situations.
• Must demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age-related needs of the residents served.
• Must be a supportive team member, contribute to and be an example of team work and team concept.
• Must possess the ability to make independent decisions when circumstances warrant such action.
• Must possess the ability to deal tactfully with personnel, residents, family members, visitors, government agencies/personnel, and the general public.
• Must be knowledgeable of nursing and medical practices and procedures, as well as laws, regulations, and guidelines that pertain to nursing care facilities.
• Must possess leadership and supervisory ability and the willingness to work harmoniously with and supervise other personnel.
• Must possess the ability to plan, organize, develop, implement, and interpret the programs, goals, objectives, policies and procedures, etc., that are necessary for providing quality care.
• Must have patience, tact, a cheerful disposition and enthusiasm, as well as the willingness to handle difficult residents.
• Must be willing to seek out new methods and principles and be willing to incorporate them into existing nursing practices.
• Must not pose a direct threat to the health or safety of other individuals in the workplace.
• Current CPR certification.
• Must maintain all required continuing education/licensing.
• Must remain in good standing with the State Board of Nursing at all times.
• Must be able to move intermittently throughout the workday.
• Must be able to speak and write the English language in an understandable manner.
• Must be able to cope with the mental and emotional stress of the position.
• Must be able to see and hear or use prosthetics that will enable these senses to function adequately.
• Must function independently and have flexibility, personal integrity, and the ability to work effectively with residents, personnel, and support agencies.
• Must meet the general health requirements set forth by the policies of this facility, which include a medical and physical examination.
• Must be able to relate to and work with the ill, disabled, elderly, emotionally upset, and, at times, hostile people within the facility.
• Must be able to push, pull, move, and/or lift a minimum of 25 pounds to a minimum height of 5 feet and be able to push, pull, move, and/or carry such weight a minimum distance of 50 feet.
• May be necessary to assist in the evacuation of residents during emergency situations.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge and experience with PCC preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide skilled nursing care with compassion and professionalism.
• Administer medications and treatments.
• Monitor residents' health and communicate changes to the healthcare team.
• Collaborate with physicians, therapists, CNAs, and fellow nurses.
• Build meaningful relationships with residents and their families.
• Help create a safe, positive, and caring environment for everyone.
• Direct the day-to-day functions of the nursing assistants.
• Ensure that all nursing personnel assigned comply with written policies and procedures.
• Meet with assigned nursing staff and support personnel to plan shifts' services, programs, and activities.
• Ensure that the Nursing Service Procedures Manual is current and reflects the day-to-day nursing procedures.
• Make written and oral reports/recommendations concerning the activities of your shift.
• Cooperate with other resident services when coordinating nursing services.
• Ensure that all nursing service personnel comply with their respective job descriptions.
• Participate in the development, maintenance, and implementation of the facility’s quality assurance program for the nursing service department.
• Participate in facility surveys (inspections) made by authorized government agencies.
• Review the resident’s written discharge plan and participate in updating it.
• Assist in planning the nursing services portion of the resident’s discharge plan.
• Interpret the department’s policies and procedures to personnel, residents, visitors, and government agencies.
• Admit, transfer, and discharge residents as required.
• Complete accident/incident reports.
• Write resident charge slips and forward to the Business Office.
• Maintain the Daily Census Report and submit to the Business Office.
• Perform administrative duties such as completing medical forms, reports, evaluations, studies, charting, etc.
• Complete and file required recordkeeping forms/charts upon the resident’s admission, transfer, and/or discharge.
• Encourage attending physicians to review treatment plans, record and sign their orders, progress notes, etc.
• Receive telephone orders from physicians and record on the Physicians’ Order Form.
• Transcribe physician’s orders to resident charts, cardex, medication cards, treatment/care plans.
• Chart nurses’ notes in an informative and descriptive manner that reflects the care provided to the resident, as well as the resident’s response to the care.
• Fill out and complete accident/incident reports and submit to Director.
• Chart all reports of accidents/incidents involving residents.
• Record new/changed diet orders and forward information to the Food Services Department.
• Report all discrepancies noted concerning physician’s orders, diet change, charting error, etc., to the Nurse Supervisor.
• Fill out and complete transfer forms.
• Ensure that appropriate documentation concerning unauthorized discharges is entered in the resident’s medical record.
• Perform routine charting duties as required.
• Sign and date all entries made in the resident’s medical record.
• Prepare and administer medications as ordered by the physician.
• Verify the identity of the resident before administering the medication/treatment.
• Ensure that prescribed medication for one resident is not administered to another.
• Ensure that an adequate supply of floor stock medications, supplies, and equipment is on hand.
• Order prescribed medications, supplies, and equipment as necessary.
• Ensure that narcotic records are accurate for your shift.
• Notify the Nurse Supervisor of all drug and narcotic discrepancies.
• Review medication cards for completeness of information, accuracy in the transcription of the physician’s order, and adherence to stop order policies.
• Notify the attending physician of automatic stop orders prior to the last dosage being administered.
• Dispose of drugs and narcotics as required.
• Participate in employee performance evaluations, determining staffing requirements, and making recommendations concerning employee dismissals, transfers, etc.
• Inform the Nurse Supervisor of staffing needs when assigned personnel fail to report to work.
• Report absentee call-ins to the Nurse Supervisor.
• Develop work assignments and/or assist in completing and performing such assignments.
• Provide leadership to nursing personnel assigned to your unit/shift.
• Make daily rounds of your unit/shift to ensure that nursing service personnel are performing their work assignments.
• Ensure that all nursing assistants are enrolled in or have graduated from an approved nursing assistant training program.
• Ensure that all nurse aide trainees are under the direct supervision of a licensed nurse.
• Meet with your shift’s nursing personnel regularly to identify and correct problem areas.
• Create and maintain an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest and positive emphasis, as well as a calm environment.
• Review complaints and grievances made or filed by your assigned personnel.
• Receive/give the nursing report upon reporting in and ending shift duty hours.
• Report occupational exposures to blood, body fluids, infectious materials, and hazardous chemicals.
• Report known or suspected incidents of fraud.
• Ensure that departmental computer workstations left unattended are properly logged off or password protected.
• Inform nursing personnel of new admissions, their expected time of arrival, room assignment, etc.
• Ensure that rooms are ready for new admissions.
• Greet newly admitted residents upon admission and escort them to their rooms.
• Participate in the orientation of new residents/family members to the facility.
• Make rounds with physicians as necessary.
• Requisition and arrange for diagnostic and therapeutic services, as ordered by the physician.
• Consult with the resident’s physician in providing the resident’s care, treatment, rehabilitation, etc.
• Review the resident’s chart for specific treatments, medication orders, diets, etc.
• Implement and maintain established nursing objectives and standards.
• Make periodic checks to ensure that prescribed treatments are being properly administered and to evaluate the resident’s physical and emotional status.
• Ensure that direct nursing care is provided by a licensed nurse, a certified nursing assistant, and/or a nurse aide trainee.
• Cooperate with and coordinate social and activity programs with nursing service schedules.
• Notify the resident’s attending physician when the resident is involved in an accident or incident.
• Notify the resident’s attending physician and next-of-kin when there is a change in the resident’s condition.
• Carry out restorative and rehabilitative programs, to include self-help and care.
• Inspect the nursing service treatment areas daily to ensure they are maintained in a clean and safe manner.
• Administer professional services such as; catheterization, tube feedings, suction, applying and changing dressings/bandages, packs, colostomy, and drainage bags, taking blood, giving massages and range of motion exercises, care for the dead/dying, etc.
• Use restraints when necessary and in accordance with established policies and procedures.
• Obtain sputum, urine and other specimens for lab tests as ordered.
• Take and record TPRs, blood pressures, etc.
• Monitor seriously ill residents as necessary.
• Check foods brought into the facility by the resident’s family/visitors to ensure they are within the resident’s dietary allowances.
• Ensure that personnel providing direct care to residents are providing such care in accordance with the resident’s care plan and wishes.
• Ensure that residents who are unable to call for help are checked frequently.
• Meet with residents, and/or family members, as necessary.
• Assist in arranging transportation for discharged residents.
• Ensure that discharged residents are escorted to the pick-up area.
• Inform family members of the death of the resident.
• Call funeral homes when requested by the family and ensure that established post-mortem procedures are followed.
• Participate in developing, planning, conducting, and scheduling in-service training classes.
• Implement and maintain an effective orientation program for new employees.
• Assist in standardizing the methods in which work will be accomplished.
• Assist in training department personnel in identifying tasks that involve potential exposure to blood/body fluids.
• Assist the Director in planning clinical supervision for nurse aide trainees.
• Attend and participate in outside training programs.
• Attend and participate in annual facility in-service training programs.
• Attend and participate in advance directive in-service training programs.
• Attend and participate in continuing education programs.
• Monitor assigned personnel to ensure they are following established safety regulations.
• Ensure that established departmental policies and procedures, including dress codes, are followed.
• Assist the Director and/or Infection Control Coordinator in identifying, evaluating, and classifying routine and job-related functions to ensure that tasks with potential exposure to blood/body fluids are properly identified.
• Ensure that all personnel performing tasks with potential exposure to blood/body fluids participate in appropriate in-service training.
• Ensure that an adequate supply of personal protective equipment is available.
• Ensure that assigned work areas are maintained in a clean and sanitary manner.
• Ensure that unit’s resident care rooms, treatment areas, etc., are maintained in a clean, safe, and sanitary manner.
• Ensure that assigned personnel follow established handwashing and hand hygiene techniques.
• Ensure that assigned personnel participate in and conduct all fire safety and disaster preparedness drills.
• Participate in the development, implementation, and maintenance of the infection control program.
• Ensure that assigned personnel follow established infection control procedures when isolation precautions are necessary.
• Ensure that nursing personnel follow established procedures in the use and disposal of personal protective equipment.
• Participate in the development, implementation and maintenance of the procedures for reporting hazardous conditions or equipment.
• Ensure that all personnel wear and/or use safety equipment when lifting or moving residents.
• Report missing/illegible labels and MSDSs to the safety officer.
• Recommend equipment and supply needs to the Nurse Supervisor.
• Ensure that an adequate stock level of medications, medical supplies, equipment, etc., is maintained.
• Participate in the development and implementation of procedures for the safe operation of all nursing service equipment.
• Ensure that only trained and authorized personnel operate equipment.
• Ensure that all personnel operate nursing service equipment in a safe manner.
• Monitor nursing procedures to ensure that nursing service supplies are used efficiently.
• Ensure that appropriate MSDSs are on file for hazardous chemicals.
• Review care plans daily to ensure appropriate care is being rendered.
• Inform the Nurse Supervisor of any changes that need to be made on the care plan.
• Ensure that nurses’ notes reflect that the care plan is being followed.
• Review resident care plans for appropriate resident goals, problems, approaches, and revisions.
• Ensure that assigned CNAs are aware of the resident care plans and refer to them prior to administering daily care.
• Assist the Resident Assessment/Care Plan Coordinator in planning, scheduling, and revising the MDS.
• Report suspected or known incidence of fraud relative to false billings, cost reports, kickbacks, etc.
• Provide data to the Quality Assurance & Assessment Committee as requested.

Benefits

• Excellent medical, dental & vision insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Professional development & career advancement opportunities