Registered Nurse- Community Living Center

Community Living Center Registered Nurse (RN)

The Community Living Center (CLC) Registered Nurse (RN) executes position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex resident care.

Responsibilities include:

• Collaborates in the development, implementation, evaluation, and revision of policies, procedures, and/or guidelines.
• Demonstrates performance and leadership that is broad enough to improve the care for a group of residents.
• Provides peers with formal or informal constructive feedback for improvement.
• Supports colleagues and other nurses through knowledge sharing to provide safe, quality nursing care.
• Fosters a safe and supportive environment conducive to the professional development of health care professionals.
• Evaluates outcomes of evidence-based decisions and practice changes for individuals, groups, and populations.
• Responsible for the documented outcomes at the program or service level.

The CLC RN collaborates with the Minimum Data Set (MDS) coordinator to ensure accuracy of the Resource Utilization Group (RUG) score. The responsibilities of the Registered Nurse (RN) with the competency to care for patients within the Community Living Center include, but are not limited to:

• Pain management
• Palliative Care
• RAI/MDS
• Accu-max software
• Meds and Rx via BCMA
• Geriatric Assessment Skills
• Care of Dementia Patients
• Physical Restraint Policy & Procedure
• Discharge Planning and Teaching
• Accutech Pt. Wanderer Security System
• Facilitate Inter-disciplinary Meetings
• End of Life Care Planning
• Rehabilitative Nursing
• Interacting with other therapy modalities, i.e., RT, PT, OT, Restorative Rx.
• Team building
• Safety
• Collaboration

This clinical position includes a level of physicality normally associated with direct patient care duties performed by nurses such as potentially long periods of continued walking, standing, sitting, moderate lifting, repeated bending, or kneeling. Examples may include but are not limited to:

• Significant amounts of time standing assisting assigned patients
• Utilization of safe patient handling and mobility protocols

Benefits include:

• Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards
• 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)
• Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
• Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
• 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory
• 3:00pm-11:30pm with alternating weekends and holidays
• Authorized Recruitment Incentives
• Authorized Education Debt Reduction Program