Job Description
Position pay range is $37.60 - $46.45 per hour + $4 differential. (pay range is based on relevant years of experience)
Ready for a nursing adventure? Buckle up for these exciting responsibilities:
- Become the master architect of resident-centered care plans! Continuously fine-tune these blueprints with input from our awesome residents, their families, and our stellar care planning team.
- Channel your inner detective to listen for resident, family, and physician concerns. Then, leap into action with your superhero cape of corrective interventions!
- Sharpen your Spidey senses to recognize and identify signs and symptoms. Use your initiative and proper judgment to coordinate interventions like a pro!
- Be the ultimate communication guru! Connect with nursing staff, physicians, pharmacists, residents, and family members to keep everyone in the loop about our residents' status.
- Guard resident privacy and confidentiality like a fortress protector. No villains allowed!
- Embrace your inner tech wizard by ensuring documentation is done via electronic medical record platforms with pinpoint accuracy.
- Transform into a medication maestro! Prepare, administer, and document medications according to physician orders and selected resident service packages. Keep the medicine cabinet stocked and bid farewell to expired meds per protocol.
- Be the town crier for resident concerns, incidents, and progress. Spread the word to all relevant parties!
- Chronicle your heroic deeds by documenting assessment findings, interventions, and follow-ups.
- Don your coaching hat to supervise, mentor, and (when necessary) discipline nursing support staff. Be the go-to person for reporting staff concerns to the Director of Nursing or designee.
- Be ready to tackle any other exciting quests that come your way in this nursing adventure!
Remember, as a Flex Team RN, you're the Swiss Army knife of our nursing squad! You'll be filling in for a minimum of 2 shifts per month, mostly 12-hour shifts. This PRN position lets you choose your own adventure across multiple locations, dates, and shifts. Our Community Staffing Team will be your trusty sidekick, working closely with you to match your preferences with CLC's needs. Get ready for a wild ride in the world of flexible nursing!
Qualifications
Essential Duties
- Responsible for initiating resident-centered care plans. Continuously evaluates and updates resident-centered care plans with input from the residents, families, and the care planning team.
- Listens to resident, family, and/or physician concerns and initiates corrective action.
- Recognizes and identifies signs and symptoms and uses initiative and proper judgment in coordinating interventions.
- Communicates with other nursing staff, physician, pharmacist, resident, family member and others with need to know on resident’s status.
- Ensures protection of resident privacy and confidentiality.
- Must ensure documentation is done via electronic medical record platforms, and is accurate.
- Prepares, administers, and documents medications according to physician orders and selected resident service packages. Ensures that needed medications are available and expired medications are destroyed per protocol.
- Communicates any concerns, incidents, and progress of residents to all relevant parties.
- Documents assessment findings, interventions, and follow-up.
- Supervises, coaches, and disciplines nursing support staff and reports staff concerns to the Director of Nursing, or designee.
- Other duties as assigned.
Basic Qualifications & Experience
- Registered Nurse licensed in the State of Colorado that is active and in good standing.
- 1-2 years experience in an assisted living or skilled nursing setting preferred.
- Experience in caring for residents with dementia a plus.
- Advanced relevant education or certification required. Examples include: Eden Associates or Alzheimer’s and dementia certifications, wound care programs, management education preferred.
- 1 year experience in a supervisory capacity preferred.
- 1 year experience using electronic medical record platforms preferred.
- Must be able to read, write and speak the English language.
- Must possess excellent customer service and communication skills.
- Must have computer word processing, email management and database skills.
Working Conditions / Physical Requirements
- Light physical effort required by handling objects up to 20 pounds occasionally and/or up to 10 pounds frequently.
- Sits, stands, bends, and moves intermittently during working hours.
- Is subject to frequent interruptions.
- Interacts with residents, family members, visitors frequently.
Additional Information
If you are considering a position at Christian Living Communities | Cappella Living Solutions, we have a wide range of benefits to consider! These may vary based on the status of the role (PT, FT, or PRN).
• Health Coverage
• Health Savings Accounts
• Retirement (with match)
• Dental, Vision, Disability & Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off plan
We envision a warm and welcoming environment for all residents, team members, family members, and members of our communities – a place of belonging. Please let us know if you require accommodation during the interview process.
We ask all applicants to carefully review the hiring salary range for each posted job opportunity, as we will not hire outside the predetermined range. This position will be accepting applications on an ongoing basis.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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