Rn Jobs in Los Angeles, TX

About The Position

Requirements

• Current, unencumbered license to practice as an RN or LPN in Illinois and/or Wisconsin.
• Current CPR certificate, or obtain certification within two weeks of employment.
• Knowledge of nursing and medical practices and procedures.
• Ability to read, write, and speak English understandably.
• Ability to make independent decisions when circumstances warrant.
• Ability to deal tactfully with customers, families, visitors, personnel, government agencies, and the public.
• Leadership and supervisory ability and willingness to work harmoniously with other personnel.
• Personable, enthusiastic, and resourceful.
• Ability to function independently and work effectively with customers, families, personnel, and support agencies.
• Ability to relate to and work with ill, disabled, elderly, emotionally upset, and at times hostile people.
• Ability to move intermittently throughout the workday and cope with the mental and emotional stress of the position.
• Adequate sight and hearing, with or without prosthetics, to perform the position’s requirements.
• Good general health and emotional stability.

Nice To Haves

• Interest in and/or knowledge of care of the aged.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct nursing care to customers and supervise nursing assistants.
• Plan, organize, implement, evaluate, and direct nursing activities for the assigned unit.
• Ensure nursing procedures, protocols, and departmental policies are followed.
• Instruct nursing personnel and support their job knowledge; counsel or discipline personnel as appropriate.
• Assist in developing written customer care plans and participate in care plan conferences.
• Make daily rounds on nursing personnel and customers, and make rounds with physicians as necessary.
• Report customer or family concerns and complaints to the Administrator.
• Maintain a warm, calm, and positive department environment.
• Attend continuing education programs and staff meetings.
• Recommend departmental equipment and supply needs to the Director of Nursing and place medication and treatment orders as necessary within budgetary guidelines.
• Use the PCC 24-hour summary for recommendations and concerns related to customer care.
• Complete accident and incident reports.
• Encourage physicians to review treatment plans and document and sign orders and progress notes.
• Document nursing care and customer responses in nurses’ notes and complete routine charting and monthly summaries.
• Complete customer assessments and admission, discharge, and transfer processes.
• Receive and document physician telephone orders, record diet orders, and forward diet information to the Dietary Department.
• Prepare and administer medications and treatments as ordered, when appropriate, and review medication records for completeness, accuracy, and compliance with stop-order policies.
• Provide professional nursing services such as catheterization, tube feedings, suctioning, dressing changes, ostomy and drainage-bag care, and care of the dying, as required.
• Orient new customers and family members to the facility.
• Arrange physician-ordered diagnostic and therapeutic services and obtain ordered laboratory specimens.
• Notify attending physicians and families of changes in customer condition.
• Take and record temperature, pulse, respirations, blood pressure, blood glucose checks, and other measurements as necessary.
• Contact physicians about changes in condition, medication orders or changes, incidents, abnormal laboratory or X-ray results, and other matters relevant to customer care.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Paid holidays
• Paid sick time
• Paid time off
• Retirement / pension plan
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Vision insurance