About This Role
The Charge Nurse directs, administers, and records resident care within the facility, reporting to the Director of Nursing. This supervisory position involves overseeing other nursing staff and ensuring compliance with all policies and regulations.
Responsibilities
- Communicate with family members regarding resident progress
- Assist visiting physicians in rounds
- Draw blood and obtain fluids for lab work
- Record and monitor all resident progress and communicate with physicians according to facility policies
- Assist in the dining area and help with feeding
- Monitor the 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 resident care 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 with all State and federal requirements, including bloodborne pathogens, hazardous materials, infection control, and fire safety
- Monitor personal and staff compliance with resident's rights
- Ensure 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
- Required to 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 relate to and work with the ill, disabled, elderly, emotionally upset, and, at times, hostile people within the community
- Able to see and hear or use prosthetics that will enable these senses to function adequately to ensure that the requirements of this position can be fully met
Important Details
- Primary Physical Requirements:
