About This Role
This supervisory position involves directing, administering, and recording the care given to residents in a facility, reporting to the Director of Nursing. The role requires handling employees in a manner that assists them in functioning effectively, and working with various residents including the ill, disabled, elderly, and emotionally upset.
Responsibilities
- Communicate with family members regarding the progress of residents
- Assist visiting physicians in rounds
- Draw blood and obtain fluids for lab work
- Record and monitor all progress of residents and communicate with physicians according to facility policies
- Assist in the dining area and with feeding
- Monitor work of other nursing staff in the unit to ensure thoroughness and assist with tasks as needed
- Use telephones to communicate with physicians, arrange transportation for doctor appointments, and contact families
- Make rounds to ensure cleanliness and proper care for residents
- Coordinate care of residents in accordance with their care plans
- Effectively manage all nursing staff assigned to the unit
- Complete various reports as needed
- Monitor personal and staff compliance to all State and federal requirements including bloodborne pathogens, hazardous materials, infection control, and fire safety
- Monitor personal and staff compliance to residents
- Ensure that all medications and treatments are administered as ordered and in a timely fashion according to facility policies and schedules
- Replace nursing staff who call in sick with additional staff
- Help provide nursing services when sufficient staff cannot be attained
Requirements
- Regular worksite attendance
- Valid Kansas nursing license in good standing with the State
- Basic computer skills
- Able to read, write, speak, and understand the English language
- Able to work beyond normal working hours and on weekends and holidays when necessary
- Able to assist in the evacuation of residents during emergency situations
- Able to perform the essential position functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation
- Use a transfer/gait belt or obtain the assistance of another employee when attempting to assist residents when lifting or carrying objects in excess of 25 pounds
- Able to see and hear or use prosthetics that will enable these senses to function adequately
Physical Requirements:
- Lift up to 10 lbs: Constantly
- Lift 11 to 25 lbs: Frequently
- Lift 26 to 50 lbs: Occasionally
- Lift over 50 lbs: Occasionally
