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This job was posted by https://www.kansasworks.com : For more information, please see: https://www.kansasworks.com/jobs/12882818

Qualifications & Details:

To qualify for the position, you will need:

• Certification as a Registered Nurse (RN)
• A caring & loving personality and demeanor.
• Leadership and mentorship skills.
• The ability to work your scheduled shift.
• The ability to read, write & speak English.

As a Registered Nurse you are responsible for providing exceptional nursing care in accordance with our policies and procedures in combination with state guidelines. You will have an abundance of resources and support to provide the highest degree of quality care, including our Assistant Director of Nursing, Director of Nursing and Administrator.

Responsibilities of the RN include:

• Preparing and administering medications as ordered by the physician.
• Being a team leader and navigating your shift to success.
• Timely attendance.
• Enhancing the clinical care and quality of life of our residents. And ensuring that all resident rights are protected.
• Checking all residents daily to ensure that prescribed treatment is being properly administered by nursing personnel/assistants and to evaluate their physical and emotional status.
• Keeping the DON informed about the status of residents, staff and related matters.
• Implementing recommended changes as directed by the Director of Nursing.
• Administering professional services such as: catheterization, tube feeding, suction, applying and changing dressings/bandages, packs, colostomy and drainage bags, taking blood, sputum, and urine specimens, etc., as established by the facilitys policies and procedures.
• Completing all Registered Nurse required record keeping forms/charts upon the residents admission, discharge, transfer, etc. File in the residents chart and/or forward to the appropriate department.
• Giving and receiving nursing reports upon reporting in and ending shift duty hours.
• Investigating complaints and grievances and making necessary oral/written reports to the Assistant to or Director of Nursing.
• Presenting in a professional image to residents and families through dress, behavior and speech.
• Adhering to our policies and standards.

Drug test will be done.