CHARGE NURSE (RN/ LPN)

Come join this collaborative and innovated team. At Integritus Healthcare, you will enjoy generous time off, exceptional health insurance and the ability to grow in your career. Integritus Healthcare wants you to join the team!

At North Adams Commons, we have been caring for area families since 1981, providing top-quality skilled nursing care for short-term rehabilitation and long-term care. We focus on maximizing patient recovery, comfort and independence for the highest possible quality of life. From post-surgery and post-hospital rehabilitation to long-term care for a chronic illness, our highly skilled care teams provide compassionate attention and specialized care every step of the way.

Essential Job Functions:  

• Direct nursing assistants in accordance with current rules, regulations, & guidelines governing long-term care. 
• Ensure that all nursing personnel assigned to you comply with the written policies and meet with your assigned nursing staff, as well as support personnel, in planning the shifts' services, programs, and activities.
• Ensure that all nursing service personnel comply with the procedures set forth in the Nursing Service Procedures Manual.
• Cooperate with other resident services to ensure that the resident's total regimen of care is maintained.
• Ensure that all nursing service personnel are in compliance with their respective job descriptions.
• Assist in planning the nursing services portion of the resident's discharge plan as necessary.
• Admit, transfer, and discharge residents as required.
• Complete accident/incident reports as necessary.
• Write resident charge slips and forward to the Business Office.
• Maintain the Daily Census Report and submit to the Business Office as required.
• Perform administrative duties such as completing medical forms, reports, evaluations, studies, charting, etc., as necessary.
• Transcribe physician's orders to resident charts, cardex, medication cards, treatment/care plans, as required.
• Chart all reports of accidents/incidents involving residents. Follow established procedures.
• Record new/changed diet orders. Forward information to the Dietary Department.
• Perform routine charting in accordance with charting and documentation policies and procedures.
• Prepare and administer medications as ordered by the physician.
• Ensure adequate medications, supplies, and equipment is on hand to meet nursing needs.  
• Provide leadership to nursing personnel assigned to your unit/shift.
• Make rounds to ensure that personnel are performing in accordance w/ nursing standards. 
• Maintain an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest & positive emphasis, and a calm environment.
• Inform nursing personnel of new admissions, their expected time of arrival, room assignment, etc.
• Ensure that rooms are ready for new admissions.
• Greet newly admitted residents upon admission. Escort them to their rooms as necessary.
• Participate in the orientation of new residents/family members to the facility.
• Make rounds with physicians as necessary.
• Notify the resident's attending physician and next-of-kin when there is a change in the resident's condition.
• Administer services such as catheterization, tube feedings, applying and changing dressings/bandages, packs, colostomy, etc.
• Obtain sputum, urine and other specimens for lab tests as ordered.
• Take and record TPRs, blood pressures, etc., as necessary.  Monitor AccuChecks Pulse Oximetry as ordered.
• Review care plans daily to ensure that appropriate care is being rendered.
• Inform the Nurse Supervisor of any changes that need to be made on the care plan.
• Ensure CNAs are aware of care plans and that they refer to care plans prior to administering care to the resident.

Qualifications: 

• Must possess, as a minimum, a Nursing Degree from an accredited college or university, or be a graduate of an approved LPN or RN program.
• Must possess a current, unencumbered, active license to practice as an LPN or RN in this state.
• Must be able to read, write, speak, and understand the English language.
• Must possess the ability to make independent decisions when circumstances warrant such action.
• Must possess the ability to deal tactfully with personnel, residents, visitors and the general public.
• Must be knowledgeable of medical terminology.
• Must possess the ability to work harmoniously with other personnel.
• Must possess the ability to minimize waste of supplies, misuse of equipment, etc.
• Must have patience, tact, cheerful disposition and enthusiasm, as well as to be willing to handle residents, staff and visitors based on whatever maturity level they are currently functioning.

Job Type: Monday - Friday with Weekend Call

Salary: 74,000k-84,000k

(based on years of experience and classification)