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About The Position

Requirements

• Registered professional nurse, who is licensed in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
• Educated in rehabilitative and restorative nursing techniques.
• Professional with integrity, an achiever, and a leader.
• Basic computer knowledge required.
• Criminal history background clearance: Act 169 and Act 13.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of Medicare, Medicaid, OBRA, and state nursing home regulations preferred.
• Computer care plan and scheduling preferred.

Responsibilities

• Presents self as a role model to achieve the mission of Rest Haven-York. Is a creative, positive, enthusiastic, confidential, team playing, problem solving, and interactive professional.
• Leads – Sets high and positive standards for staff. Promotes and creates a work community. Shapes staff to be future leaders through: training, education, evaluation, and guidance.
• Communicates effectively in both verbal (staff, physician, resident, and guests) and written prose (policy, procedure, Medicare/medical assistance form, chart, care plan, cardex, etc…)
• Assesses quality of resident care-makes rounds, performs chart review, and conducts inspection tours.
• Knowledge of and ability to interpret and implement state and federal regulations.
• Manages and supervises the nursing operation for the nursing service to include scheduling, evaluating, counseling, and commending employees.
• Ensures compliance with all established regulatory and organizational standards.
• Provides supervision, support, consultation, and evaluation to nursing staff, supervises N.A. trainees in the clinical setting.
• Follows and promotes resident care as defined in the plan of care for each resident.
• Participates in the development and implementation of clinical and administrative policies and standards of performance.
• Remains current in field by attending meetings, seminars, inservices, conferences, workshops, and/or higher education courses and by reading professional journals, newsletters, and bulletins.
• When sole RN in building and department heads & administrators are not here, will need to manage or make decisions concerning other departments, their employees, and issues normally handled by others. Emergency call list is available for follow-up with administration and all department heads.
• Recognize your role as part of the QAPI efforts of your organization.
• Attend trainings to build understanding and capacity to undertake QAPI work.
• Carry out QAPI roles and responsibilities as assigned.
• Follow established policies and procedures in support of QAPI efforts.
• Look for and share with leadership ideas for improvement in the organization.
• Communicate to leadership upon witnessing a positive outcome of a QAPI project or detecting barriers preventing project success.
• Support QAPI efforts both verbally and non-verbally (i.e., via actions and attitude). Including performance and practice in accordance with QAPI initiatives and findings.
• Recognize your role for Trauma Informed Care: Promotes a culture of safety, empowerment and healing; recognizes that everyone who interacts at Rest Haven may have past traumatic experience and protects trauma survivors from being re-traumatized.
• Recognize your role for Compliance and Ethics: Participates in annual compliance and ethics training. Follows code of conduct reporting any compliance and ethics concerns.