Staff Registered Nurse

Registered Nurse

Job Title: Registered Nurse / RN LTC or Home Healthcare

Location: NYS Veterans Home at St. Albans, 178-50 Linden Blvd, Jamaica, NY 11434

Facility: NYS Veterans Home

Shift Slots Available:

• Morning Shift
• Evening Shift
• Night Shift

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Monitors individual's medical/health needs and services.
• Interacts with primary, medical specialists, various clinical staff as necessary.
• Advocate for individuals' health care needs.
• Maintains ongoing communication with med liaison/designee.
• Provides support to residential staff in maintaining health services for the individuals.
• Utilizes appropriate reporting mechanisms/chain of command in responding to individual and/or staff issues.
• Completes follow-up including documentation for individuals post ER/hospital visit follow-up.
• Reviews, comments, initials and dates lab, x-ray, consults, etc. If indicated completes follow-up with practitioner.
• Provides necessary documentation regarding home visits within established time frames.
• Follows pressure wound policy and documentation requirements.

Provides appropriate nursing services and support/oversight to Residential/Day Hab. Staff:

• Responds to emergency requests as soon as possible (within and outside caseload).
• Completes nursing assessments and related documentation e.g. RN Notes, nursing log book, etc. thoroughly and within established time frames.
• Provides individual-specific nursing interventions.
• Responds to staff questions regarding individual specific medical/nursing issues.
• PONS are current (for caseload) and signed by staff. All PONS are maintained in computer files.
• Provides health related training/consultation to day program, IES, residential staff.
• Annually for everyone in your caseload, completes: review of medical section ISP, medication audit (each home).
• Keeps up to date regarding changes to medical section on ISP.
• Responsible for obtaining individual's informed consent for medications, as per BDDSOO Policy.

Provides adequate nursing assessment/supervision of DSAs competency regarding individualspecific nursing delegated procedures including medication administration:

• Completes initial medication certification and conducts annual clinical performance evaluations for DSAS for procedures that include but not limited to medication administration (Annual Clinical Nursing Evaluation of Nursing Delegated Tasks).
• Provides training for all staff as needed on new/revised medication/policies.
• Provides CMHN, NA and NPC' with certification/recertification information for data base in a timely manner.
• Completes required medication error documentation and staff medication error remediation.

Provides clinical supervision to LPNs:

• Provides adequate nursing supervision and completes performance evaluations (as assigned) regarding individual-specific nursing procedures.

Maintains professional skills:

• Attends Nursing Discipline meetings.
• Attends/completes on-line mandated DDSO training, as well as available discipline specific training.
• Identifies problems and/or opportunities for personal and/or nursing department improvement(s) and contributes to the development of an action plan.
• Completes special projects/assignments.