Registered Nurse
: Job Details :

• Job Name- Registered Nurse
• REPORTS TO: RN Nurse Supervisor/Unit Manager/ADON/ADON-Unit/Center Nurse Executive.
• Job Type- Local contract
• Specialty- RN Nursing & Rehab
• EHR: N/A
• Must Have Skills/Experience: Active BLS/CPR, Active RN state license & 1+ year of RN experience.
• Preferred Skillset/Experience: N/A
• Work location- Onsite at 1070 Stouffer Ave. Chambersburg PA 17201
• Shift- NIGHT 10:45 PM to 7:15 AM
• Shift Details: 1st week Monday to Friday. 2nd week Monday to Friday Rotational including Saturday & Sunday.
• Weekend Hours: EOW (Every other weekend) required.
• Call Requirements: N/A
• Weekly Guaranteed Hours: 32/week.
• Contract duration- 12 week (s) of contract

POSITION SUMMARY:

• Under the direction of the RN Nursing Supervisor, Unit Manager, ADON or ADON - Unit, or Center Nurse Executive (Nurse Leader), the Registered Nurse (RN) delivers efficient and effective nursing care while achieving positive clinical outcomes and patient/family satisfaction.
• He/she operates within the scope of practice defined by the State Nurse Practice Act and delegates aspects of patient care to LPNs and CNAs consistent with their scope of practice.
• The RN manages patient care by performing nursing assessments and collaborating with the nursing team and other disciplines, patients and families to develop effective plans of care.

RESPONSIBILITIES/ACCOUNTABILITIES: Assessment:

• Collects, validates, synthesizes, and records objective and subjective data.
• Prioritizes data collection based on patient needs.
• Analyzes all data.
• Identifies actual or potential problems or needs based on data analysis.

Care Planning:

• Establishes realistic and measurable short- and long-term goals for the identified health
• problems and needs.
• Develops individualized interventions to achieve goals.
• Determines timelines within the care plan.
• Conducts a systematic and ongoing evaluation of patient outcomes.
• Reviews and revises plan of care as indicated.

Implementing Care:

• Performs nursing functions and provides care within scope of practice.
• Coordinates and delegates care as appropriate.
• Verifies that medical orders are accurately transcribed.
• Administers medications and performs treatments per physician orders.
• Communicates and documents interventions and patient response.

Managing patient care:

• Delegates care responsibilities to staff considering:
• Complexity of care.
• Competency of staff.
• Center policies.
• State's practice act.
• Supervises staff to ensure that delegated tasks and interventions are implemented
• appropriately and per policy.
• Evaluates and adjusts the plan of care to achieve patient goals and minimize re-
• Hospitalizations.
• Actively participates in Utilization Management or Interdisciplinary Care Management.

Meeting to facilitate appropriate discharge planning:

• Communicates team's recommendations for discharge to the attending physician, patient and family.
• Prepares patient/family for discharge including patient and family education.
• Communicates patient information with assigned staff during and between shifts.
• Participates in shift-to-shift communication between incoming and outgoing nursing staff.
• Uses Point Click Care (PCC) according to the Business Processes.
• Performs drug count when beginning and ending shift and whenever necessary.
• Collaborates with physicians in rounds and examination of patients, as needed.
• Collaborates and coordinates with other departments to provide timely effective care
• consistent with individual's needs, choices and preferences.
• Contributes to an environment that is respectful, team-oriented, and responsive to the
• concerns of staff, patients and families.
• Enhances nursing practice by attending all mandated in-service programs and other GHC and outside professional education programs.
• Assists with the orientation of newly hired nursing staff.
• Promotes a culture of safety to ensure a healthy practice and living environment.
• Maintains confidentiality and protects sensitive Protected Health Information (PHI) at all
• Times.
• Stays and works beyond scheduled shift if needed to meet state staffing requirements and/or needs of patients.
• Performs other duties as requested.

COMPLIANCE:

• Complies with applicable legal requirements, standards, policies and procedures including but not limited to those within the Compliance and Ethics Program, Standard/Code of Conduct, Federal False Claims Act and HIPAA.
• Participates in required orientation and training programs.
• Promptly reports concerns and suspected incidences of non-compliance to supervisor, Compliance
• Liaison or to the Compliance Officer via the Integrity Hotline.
• Cooperates with monitoring and audit functions and investigations.
• Participates, as requested, in quality assurance and process improvement activities.

SPECIFIC EDUCATIONAL/VOCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Graduate of an approved school of nursing is required.
• Must be currently licensed by the State Board of Nursing.
• Experience is preferred in rehabilitative or geriatric nursing.
• This position requires that the employee is able to read, write, speak and understand the spoken
• English language to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our patients and visitors at the work site when responding to their medical and physical needs.
• Must provide verification of TST (tuberculin skin test) as required by state law and in
• accordance with Company policy. TSTs will be administered at the work site if required.
• Maintains current BLS/CPR certification (All SNFs and Behavioral Centers; ALFs/ILFs as required by State).

JOB SKILLS:

• Current physical assessment skills and comprehensive knowledge of nursing principles
• required, including the ability to recognize and identify symptoms and manage emergency situations.
• Knowledge of medications, their proper dosage, and expected results.
• Ability to coordinate, delegate and supervise nursing functions, problem solve and make
• decisions as necessary.
• Ability to create a patient-centered environment.
• Ability of communicate in English both orally and in writing.
• Basic knowledge of computer use.