Registered Nurse, RN

Job Description

A skilled nursing facility that provides resident care in accordance with current federal, state, and local standards, employing nurses and nursing assistants to deliver routine daily nursing care including assessments, medication administration, wound care, IV insertion, and coordination with physicians, while maintaining infection control policies and occupational safety protocols. The purpose of your job position is to provide each resident with routine daily nursing care in accordance with current federal, state, and local standards that govern the facility and as directed by your supervisors. Essential duties include assessment and development of resident care plans, ensuring privacy, checking vital signs, dressing wounds, passing medications, assisting with admissions, making rounds with physicians, starting IVs, listening to residents and families, addressing concerns, performing charting, providing assistance to LVNs and CNAs, ensuring equipment functionality, monitoring fall risk residents, collecting lab samples, abiding by facility policies, following infection control procedures, reporting occupational exposures, attending training programs, and completing other assignments as requested by management.