Charge RN (58117)

Position Summary
The Charge RN is responsible to maintain the nursing philosophy, objectives, and standards of quality nursing care; and ensure compliance with standards, codes, rules and regulations, and the policies set-forth by Woodland Pond

Administrative Functions:

• Notifies the Director of Nursing and Administrator on Call as required (*CF)
• Participates actively with IDT and follows-through on actions determined by the Team
• Is responsible for every resident in the Health Center (*CF)
• Serves as a resident advocate and ensures resident rights are maintained
• Supports the medical staff
• Works collaboratively with all departments at Woodland Pond
• Works with staff in the planning of the units services, programs, and activities
• Ensures consistency between all units in nursing care
• Ensures staff comply with polices and standards of care (*CF)
• Ensures completeness of Accident and Incident reports
• Serves as a leader and resource for nursing staff
• Participates in investigations as assigned (*CF)
• Ensures safe quality care is provided to the residents daily, and essential information is communicated to provide appropriate continuity of care from admission to discharge (*CF)
• Is a liaison with residents, families, and other departments to adequately plan for and provide resident care
• Guides LPNs and CNAs responsibilities (*CF)
• Assists with resident care as needed (*CF)
• Ensures accurate, appropriate, and complete documentation by all nursing staff

Care Plan, Kardex, MDS, and Assessment

• Ensures accuracy of each
• Completes timely as assigned
• Effectively communicates the plan of care
• Ensures that resident care plan is followed (*CF)

Communication

• Ensures appropriate and ongoing communication to the resident, family, staff, MD, IDT, etc. (*CF)
• Uses communication to enhance quality of resident care and staff working environment

Personnel/Staff Development

• Assists with employee evaluations, employee praise, and discipline as necessary (*CF)
• Actively participates with staff education
• Promotes an environment of learning
• Ensures staff attends mandatory in-services and meets minimum continuing education requirements
• Conducts routine staff audits to ensure care is being delivered per care plan and medical staff orders (*CF)
• Ensures work consistency among staff
• Promotes a positive, friendly work environment

Equipment and Supplies

• Ensures appropriate are available and monitors that supplies are utilized appropriately to avoid waste
• Is cost-effective

Policy and Procedure Manuals

• Ensures staff awareness of manuals, including other departments (e.g. SDS, emergency protocols)
• Uses manual and assists other staff on using policies as necessary (*CF)

Quality Assurance

• Constantly strives to enhance the resident and staff experience
• Reports and completes necessary paperwork for each resident incident/accident/change in condition (*CF)

Safety/Infection Control

• Ensures staff compliance with standards and regulations
• Reports potential outbreaks and takes appropriate measures to control/eliminate infection control exposures

Staffing Coverage

• Required to ensure appropriate coverage for the nursing department 24/7, including weekends, holidays, and off-shifts (*CF)
• Works beyond normal working hours, or in other positions temporarily when necessary (e.g. administers medications) (*CF)
• Is subject to callback during emergency conditions
• Takes RN on-call as needed

Other Specific Requirements

• Must have patience, tact, a cheerful disposition, and be enthusiastic
• Must work harmoniously with others
• Seeks out new methods and principles to incorporate into the nursing practice
• Creates and maintains an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest, positive emphasis, as well as a calm environment (*CF)
• Able to make independent decisions
• Able to plan, organize, develop, implement, and interpret the programs, goals, objectives, policies and procedures necessary to provide quality care
• Promotes teamwork and collaboration among Woodland Pond staff members

Ongoing education

• Must continually strive to enhance knowledge, and ensure evidenced-based nursing is being practiced
• Encouraged to attend an out-of-facility continuing education seminars
• Completes all required training and in-services
• All other duties as assigned

GENERAL SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Maintains high standards for work areas, attitude and appearance
• Understands that honesty and ethics are essential in the performance of duties
• Willing to learn and grow
• Demonstrates maturity in judgment and behaviors
• Demonstrated knowledge and skills necessary to provide care to and communicate with primarily the geriatric population
• Demonstrated knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span
• Able to assess data reflecting the residents status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each residents requirements relative to their age-specific needs
• Able to work a flexible schedule  
• Maintains predictable and reliable attendance

1. RN graduate of an accredited school of nursing
2. Minimum two years of clinical nursing experience preferred
3. Holds a current, unencumbered RN license to practice in the State of New York
4. Proficiency with computers and standard office software
5. Valid CPR certification