Registered Nurse

Job Description

Job Description

Discover the StoneRidge Difference

$5.00/hour weekend differentials for FT, PT, and PRN!

Are you still looking for a company that values and appreciates all of your hard work? At StoneRidge Retirement Living Communities, we recognize that our dedicated team is the heart of our communities, and we offer an incredible comprehensive "we care about you" ADVANTAGES benefits package to show our appreciation.

As a valued team member, you'll enjoy caring for you & your family, ADVANTAGES like COMPANY-PAID medical, vision, and dental insurance for you and your dependents - that's 100% paid premiums for you and your dependent children. Plus, we offer company-paid HSA contributions, giving you free money back in your pocket to help cover medical costs. We also offer referral incentives!

Full-time Team Members - With 20 days of paid time off and 7 days of holidays that you start earning on day one, you'll have plenty of time to refresh and recharge.

All team members enjoy participation in our company-matched 401k and company-paid telemedicine through Revive with no copay. This will help you have peace of mind knowing you're taken care of.

But we don't just care about your benefits - we care about you as a person. You'll have the opportunity to work with compassionate leaders who value teamwork, work-life balance, and patient care. We provide a family-oriented culture and want you to have a voice.

Join our team at StoneRidge Retirement Living Communities and discover make a meaningful difference in the lives of our patients and our team members. If you want to feel valued and appreciated for your hard work, apply today!

Job Summary

A licensed registered nurse works to promote resident health using assessment skills. Coordinates and communicates as a resident advocate to the physician. Oversees the licensed nurses and nurse aides of all resident care. Serves as nursing administration designee. Candidates will be required to work every other weekend and every other holiday and will be required to assist with medication administration as part of their daily responsibilities. 

• Directs nursing services for residents on the unit assigned.
• Plans, develops, organizes, and implements nursing services, in the absence of the Director of Nursing.
• Ensures compliance with current applicable federal, state and local regulations and facility policies and procedures.
• Reviews complaints and grievances made or filed by staff.  Makes appropriate reports to the Director of Nursing as required or as necessary.
• Ensures an adequate stock of medications, medical supplies, equipment, etc., is maintained on the unit at all times to adequately meet the needs of the resident and notifies appropriate personnel of needs.
• Assists in the development of written preliminary and comprehensive assessments of the nursing needs of each resident.
• Makes nursing/aide assignments as indicated.
• Encourages staff to attend and participate in outside training programs and schedules times as appropriate.
• Review nurses’ notes to ensure they are informative and descriptive of the nursing care being provided, that they reflect the resident’s response to the care, and that such care is provided in accordance with the resident’s wishes.
• Directs the daily activities of the licensed practical/vocational nurse and certified nursing assistants in accordance with current federal, state and local regulations and guidelines and established facility policies and procedures.
• Follows the nursing model to promote holistic care for the residents.
• Ensures that policies and procedures are complied with by nursing personnel assigned.
• Participates in the admission, discharge and transfers of residents as required.
• Assesses for changes in residents’ status, notifying the physician and resident’s family or representative and documenting accordingly.
• Transcribes physician orders to medical record and carries out orders as written.
• Prepares and administers medications as per physicians’ orders and observes for adverse effects as indicated.
• Performs wound treatments as per physicians’ orders, observes for changes and documents accordingly as indicated.
• Schedules follow up appointments for residents and transportation needs as indicated.
• Provides nursing leadership to nursing personnel assigned to the unit.
• Provides direct care skills such as colostomy changes, tube feedings, wound care, suctioning, IV administration, etc. in accordance with current policies and procedures, as assigned.
• Performs rounds to ensure resident needs are being met and personnel are performing their assigned duties.
• Collaborates with other members of the interdisciplinary team as needed to ensure residents’ needs are holistically met.
• Participates in management team meetings as indicated to discuss census changes, resident changes in status or care need, or complaints or concerns.
• May assist in evaluating work performance of nursing personnel and implements discipline according to operational policies and as directed.
• Informs appropriate departments of concerns or complaints and files grievances as necessary.
• Reports any incidents or unusual occurrences to the unit manager, assistant director or nursing or director of nursing and participates in the investigative process as needed.
• Participates in end of life care as required.
• Ensures that there is adequate stock of medications, supplies, equipment and notifies appropriate personnel of needs.
• Initiates, reviews and updates care plans as required.
• Promotes teamwork, mutual respect, and effective communication.
• Participates in the survey process when inspection surveys arise.
• May participate in QAPI activities as needed or assigned.
• Ensures that infection control principles are followed and helps correct deficiencies in practice as noted.
• Other duties as assigned.
• All other duties as assigned.