Licensed Practical Nurse

The primary purpose of your job position is to provide direct nursing care to the residents and to supervise the day-to-day nursing activities performed by nursing assistants. Such supervision must be in accordance with current federal, state, and local standards, guidelines, and regulations that govern Mountainside Residential Care Center, and as may be required by the Director of Nursing Services or Nurse Supervisor to ensure that the highest degree of quality care is maintained at all times.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Administrative functions:

• Notifies the RN on-call, Director of Nursing, and Administrator on call as required.
• Participates actively with IDT and follows-through on actions determined by the Team.
• Serves as a resident advocate and ensures resident rights are maintained.
• Supports the medical staff.
• Works collaboratively with all departments at Mountainside and MMH.
• Works with staff in the planning of the units services, programs, and activities.
• Ensures consistency between both floors in nursing care.
• Ensures staff comply with polices and standards of care.
• Ensures completeness of Accident and Incident reports.
• Promotes mission and values of Mountainside.
• Serves as a leader and resource for nursing staff.
• Participates in investigations as assigned.
• Ensures safe quality care is provided to the residents daily, and essential information is communicated to provide appropriate continuity of care from admission to discharge.
• Is a liaison with residents, families, and other departments to adequately plan for and provide resident care.
• Ensures accurate, appropriate, and complete documentation by all nursing staff.
• Medications and treatments as assigned.
• Documents according to policies.

Care Plan, Kardex, MDS,

• Ensures accuracy of each.
• Effectively communicates the plan of care.

Communication:

• Ensures appropriate and ongoing communication to the resident, family, staff, MD, IDT, etc.
• Uses communication to enhance quality of resident care and staff working environment.

Personnel/Staff Development

• Responsible for employee praise and discipline as necessary.
• Actively participates with staff education.
• Promotes an environment of learning.
• Ensures staff attends mandatory inservices and meets minimum continuing education requirements.
• Conducts routine staff audits to ensure care is being delivered per care plan and medical staff orders.
• Ensures work consistency among staff.
• Promotes a positive, friendly work environment.

Equipment and Supplies:

• Ensures appropriate equipment and supplies are available and monitors that supplies are utilized appropriately to avoid waste.

Quality Assurance:

• Constantly strives to enhance the resident and staff experience.
• Follows MRCC policies and procedures, including HIPAA.
• Immediately reports unusual problem/accident/incident regarding resident care to RN.

Safety/Infection Control:

• Ensures staff compliance with standards and regulations.
• Reports potential outbreaks and takes appropriate measures to control/eliminate infection control exposures.

Staffing Coverage

• Assists with staffing and finding coverage for call-ins.

Other specific requirements:

• Must have patience, tact, a cheerful disposition, and be enthusiastic.
• Must work harmoniously with others.
• Seeks out new methods and principles to incorporate into the nursing practice.
• Creates and maintains an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest, positive emphasis, as well as a calm environment.
• Able to make independent decisions.
• Able to plan, organize, develop, implement, and interpret the programs, goals, objectives, policies and procedures necessary to provide quality care.
• Promotes teamwork and collaboration among Mountainside staff members.

Ongoing education

• Encouraged to pursue ongoing education.

Other job duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS

EXPERIENCE

• One year experience preferred

EDUCATION

• LPN

LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS

• NYS LPN License; BLS certification

OTHER

• Motivated, self-directed, compassionate