Weekend Supervisor (Registered Nurse Preferred)

Job Description

Job Description

POSITION PURPOSE:

Oversees a group of dedicatied nurses, ensuring they can provide the highest quality of care for residents.  Invoiced in monitoring skills & training.  Working with doctors, obtaining medications, & maintaining accurate records of treatement.  Ensures that resident's personal care needs are being met in accordance with Residents' wishes & Care Plan Objectives.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF POSITION:

• Supervise nursing unit & directing staff.  Coordinate effective use of personnel, supplies, equipment, & facilities; obtain mediations & medical records to provide safe, efficient, & theraputic care to residents. 
• Ensures that residents' who are unable to call for help are checked frequently. Answers signal lights, bells, or intercom system to determine residents' needs & ensures call lights are within reach of resident.
• Gives direct resident care such as bathing, dressing, and grooming of residents.
• Explains procedures to residents.
• Assists residents as necessary in their activities of daily living.
• Assists residents with bowel & bladder functions, Assists residents in preparation for & transporting to appointments, activities & social programs.
• Assists with lifting, positioning & transporting residents into & out of beds, chairs, bathtubs, wheelchairs, lifts, etc., in keeping with specific resident safety needs.
• Provides incontinent care as needed. Dresses resident appropriate to the current weather
• Notifies Supervisor if resident needs clothing.
• Changes bed linens.
• Handles linens according to infection control guidelines.
• Feeds residents requiring help & records meal intake.
• Delivers & documents all snacks & supplements.
• Offers fluids to residents frequently to ensure that residents are hydrated where designated by care plan.
• Reviews & implements daily nursing needs as outlined by resident Care Plan or nurse managers.
• Transports residents or assists residents with mobility needs.
• Turns & repositions bedfast residents, alone or with assistance.
• Takes & records temperatures, blood pressure, pulse rates, respiration rates, height, weight, food, fluid intake & output, as directed.
• Monitors resident's activities and reports any irregularities of resident performance to nurse managers, DON, LNHA.
• Participates in & receives nursing report upon reporting & departing to/from work.
• Reports all changes in residents' conditions to supervisor, DON, LNHA.
• Cleans instruments & equipment and returns to proper area after use.
• Maintains cleanliness of residents units, central bathing area, treatment & supply rooms, workrooms, & linen closets.
• Provides post-mortem care as instructed.
• Accurately records all care as directed.
• Participates & attends periodic in-services & staff meetings.
• Ensures med techs & nurse aides are providing care & following guide lines & policies.
• Understands & adheres to the guidelines of "Residents Rights".
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

EDUCATION / REQUIREMENTS:

Current State Licensed Nurse or Registered Nuse with a minimum of 2 years related eperiences; or equivalent comination of education & experience.  Ability to communicate, speak, read, & write English with residents & nursing staff. Prior experience as LTC nursing assistant preferred; or equivalent combination of education & experience. Successful completion of State Approved Nursing Assistant Training & Competency Evaluation Program. Good standing in the state registry is required.