RN - LTC

Registered Nurse

Citizens Health is looking for a Registered Nurse to work full-time or part-time at Prairie Senior, our Long Term Care facility, supervising and providing quality care to residents in a friendly home-like atmosphere, while allowing them to make choices.

Registered Nurses report to the Director of Nursing and are responsible for CNAs and NAs and supervision of all other staff when Administrator or their Department Leader are out of the facility.

What you'll do:

• Supervise and provide direct resident care to meet resident's needs using the nursing process.
• Utilize nursing assessment skills in evaluating needs of the resident, family, and employee.
• Develop and implement individualized plans of care.
• Evaluate resident care based on continuous needs assessments and reassessments.
• Receive and record physician orders, and administer medications and treatments in a timely and safe manner.
• Demonstrate accountability and accepts responsibility for a constant awareness of assigned residents' overall condition.
• Assist Director of Nursing with supervising all nursing service activities.
• Develop and evaluate individualized resident teaching for residents, employees and/or family members.
• Promote positive interpersonal relationships and demonstrates effective communication skills to solve problems, to carry out facility policies and procedures and coordinate resident care.
• Promote own professional growth and demonstrate professional conduct in regards to the department, professional relationships and the practice of nursing.

What you bring to the table:

• Current RN License
• Current C.P.R. certification or willing to obtain within 30 days of hire.
• Good knowledge of nursing theory and practices.
• Thorough knowledge of principles, methods and techniques involved in performing general nursing services and adapting or modifying standard nursing practices for care of specific cases.
• Ability to deal understandingly and tactfully in a professional manner with ill geriatric residents and their families.
• Ability to maintain good working relationship with personnel in other departments.
• Ability to provide direction in application of nursing process, quality improvement standard, organization and departmental goals and objectives, and the State Nurse Practice Act.

To be successful within our organization you will need to:

• Be a self-starter who takes initiative, is open minded and a team player.
• Maintain a positive attitude with good energy.
• Create a positive, supportive working atmosphere.
• Display integrity and accountability.
• Accept and respond to constructive criticism and suggestions and strives for self-improvement.
• Adhere to organization policies and procedures.
• Arrive at work on time and when scheduled.
• Demonstrate flexibility, initiative and ingenuity in performing job tasks.
• Demonstrate professional conduct and maintains professional appearance.
• Demonstrate behavior that reflects the image of the institution.

Available Benefits

Medical, dental and vision insurance available

Pre-Tax and Roth Contributions

• Automatic 6% salary deferral upon employment
• Regular and matching contributions after one-year and 1,000 hours worked

Provides Life, Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance

• Full-time coverage - equal to two times employees annual income
• Part-time coverage - one-time annual income

Differential and Certification Pay

• Eligible employees receive shift, weekend and holiday differential pay

Other Benefits

Paid time off

Student loan reimbursement

On-site child care services

Funeral leave

Health Savings Account

Dependent, Medical and Limited Purpose Flexible Spending Accounts

The Standard Group Insurance

Discounted membership rate for EagleMed

Many More!

Citizens Medical Center, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, age, sex (including sexual harassment), sexual orientation, marital status, physical or mental disability, military status or discharge history, or any other characteristic protected by law.