Registered Nurse (New Grads considered for some positions including Assistant Director of Nursing career tracks)
This RN will ensure that quality care is delivered through assessment and monitoring of staff performance, physician contact, care planning and daily resident assessment. This position also provides direct care to residents. All this is done according to nursing standards of practice, standard procedures, and established State and Federal regulations for skilled nursing facilities.
***This position has the opportunity to fast track your career path from Staff RN to Assistant Director of Nursing to Director of Nursing***
In this role, the Registered Nurse will:
- Provide routine daily direction and monitor the work of the LPNs and nursing assistants on the unit, assuring a high standard of nursing care and satisfactory completion of tasks.
- Assist in the orientation of new nursing personnel and reinforce training standards to maintain a high quality of care.
- Assist in motivating LPNs and CNAs assigned to the nursing unit.
- Provide explanation of nursing procedures and assistance to staff to assure ongoing understanding and training.
- Communicate on a regular basis with the Director of Nursing regarding assessments, observations, and suggestions of problem areas, resident and employee activities, concerns, needs, conditions, etc.
- Observe and evaluate residents' health, mental and emotional conditions and communicate significant changes to appropriate staff. When indicated is responsible for notifying the physician and family members according to prescribed procedures.
What is a Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)?
A skilled nursing facility is a special facility or part of a hospital that provides medically necessary professional services from RNs, LPNs, physical and occupational therapists, speech pathologists, and audiologists.
What is Skilled Nursing Care?
Skilled nursing care is a high level of medical care that must be provided by trained individuals, such as registered nurses (RNs), physical, speech, and occupational therapists. These services can be necessary over the short term for rehabilitation from an illness or injury, or they may be required over the long term for patients who need care on a frequent or around-the-clock basis due to a chronic medical condition.
Examples of skilled nursing services include wound care, intravenous (IV) therapy, injections, physical therapy, monitoring of vital signs, medical conditions, and equipment. Skilled nursing care is typically provided for rehabilitation patients that do not require long-term care services. This type of care is also referred to as post-acute care, in that it typically is provided following an emergency hospital stay.
What is the difference between a nursing home and a skilled nursing facility?
Skilled nursing care is typically provided for rehabilitation patients that do not require long-term care services.
A skilled nursing facility (SNFs) includes senior care, meal preparation, and non-medical assistance, but also has specialized staff such as speech-language pathologists, rehabilitation specialists, audiologists, among others. These medical professionals are not typically staffed in a nursing home.
Nursing home care provides permanent custodial assistance, whereas a skilled nursing facility is more often temporary, to solve a specific medical need or to allow recovery outside a hospital.
Nursing home care is similar in that residents receive care with the presence of certified nurses, meal preparation, and non-medical assistant like bathing; however lack the on-site licensed medical practitioners of a skilled nursing facility. Nursing home care provides permanent custodial assistance, whereas a skilled nursing facility is more often temporary, to solve a specific medical need or to allow recovery outside a hospital.
Assisted living is for seniors who do not require constant care but need assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs), such as assistance with eating, bathing, dressing, and medication management. Whereas skilled nursing is a medical setting, assisted living is a residential setting.
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