Residential Nurse

Job Description

Job Description

Summary/Objective

Provide nursing services to consumers of The Arc Southwest Indiana and occupational nursing to employees for work related injuries.

Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Participate in annual Individual Program Plan team meetings.
• Establish and maintain a professional working relationship with all Physicians, Therapists and Individuals who provide a service to the consumer or the agency.
• Schedule all necessary and important medical appointments when schedule permits, in order to ensure and monitor that all paperwork is thoroughly completed and all orders are implemented.
• Based on the consumer care plan, counsels’ consumers with psychological issues relating to their disabilities to work towards rehabilitation and resumption of a healthy lifestyle as needed.
• Monitors and records all vitals.
• Pull all labs and other testing ordered.
• Ensure consumers adaptive equipment is in good working condition.
• Keeps records of consumer’s care.
• Implements appropriate protective and preventative health measures.
• Implementation of all nursing care as prescribed by a physician or as identified by consumer needs.
• Administer Core A and B training, TB skin tests, and drug tests as needed.
• Participation in State Board of Health (SBOH) and Bureau of Quality Improvement Services (BQIS) surveys.
• Complete and file all necessary paperwork.
• Control of communicable disease and infection.
• Participate in all new-hire final medication passes, supervised medication passes, and medication error retraining as needed.
• Work with physicians if medication is not covered by Medicaid.
• Audit count sheets, exchange sheets, MARs and Buddy Lists, when applicable.
• Assist in the ongoing training of staff by monitoring and scheduling in-service training as required by governing bodies.
• To participate in all surveys and coordinate the medical dept. per regulation.
• Incident report and follow up.
• Attend consumer admittance meetings, as required.
• Assess work related injuries for staff during office hours within 24 hours, complete necessary documentation and communicate steps to be taken to the Human Resources Director.
• Actively participates as a part of the Management Team, attending various team meetings on a monthly basis and to attend all home team meetings, training staff on various issues pertinent to consumer medical situations.
• Assist with Medication exchange and rewrite
• Monitor medication supplies and expired meds.
• Performs all other duties as deemed necessary and/or assigned by the Executive Director and/or Departmental Directors.
• All other duties as deemed necessary.