10PM-6AM Charge Nurse

Cedar Lake Wellness & Rehabilitation; Malakoff (TX); In loco; USD 65.000 - 85.000; Tempo pieno

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Cedar Lake Wellness & Rehabilitation is seeking a Charge Nurse (RN or LPN) to lead nursing care on the unit. You will plan and direct nursing functions, assign tasks, record vital signs, and ensure safety and confidentiality for residents.

The role requires strong clinical assessment, quick problem-solving, and adherence to infection-control policies. Responsibilities include implementing physician orders, maintaining care standards, coordinating with nursing and medical staff, and fostering a

Competenze

• Must be licensed as RN or LPN.
• Ability to understand and follow verbal or written instructions in English.
• Must complete assignments in a timely manner.
• Flexibility and positive attitude with interruptions.

Mansioni

• Ensure resident safety.
• Plan, organize, and direct nursing functions for patients in the unit.
• Assign nursing tasks appropriate to staff skill levels.
• Maintain acceptable standards of patient care.
• Identify problems and guide personnel to solutions.
• Provide growth and job satisfaction for staff.
• Promptly implement physicians' orders.
• Enforce infection-control policies.
• Maintain confidentiality and professional conduct.
• Coordinate with nursing, medical staff and other departments.
• Obtain and document comprehensive nursing history.
• Perform basic patient assessment with anatomy/physiology knowledge.
• Record vital signs and monitor changes.
• Notify physician of condition changes.
• Develop care plans for incoming staff transfers at end of shift.
• Use care plans to provide safe, therapeutic care.
• Follow standards, policies, and procedures consistently.
• Accept accountability for care of assigned patients and supervision.
• Communicate with patient/family and health-care team to meet care goals.
• Promote positive patient relations and professionalism.
• Use appropriate workplace behavior and dress code.

Conoscenze

English proficiency

Timely task completion

Flexibility & positivity

Formazione

RN or LPN license

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About Charge Nurse

Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) or Registered Nurse (RN)

QUALIFICATIONS

• Must have a current RN/ LPN license
• Ability to understand, remember and carry out verbal or written instructions in English
• Ability to complete assignments in a timely manner
• Ability to be flexible and positive with intermittent interruptions

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• To assure resident safety.
• Provides the best possible nursing care by planning, organizing, and directing the nursing functions of patients in the unit
• Makes nursing assignments appropriate to the skill level of employees
• Maintains acceptable standards of patient care
• Identifies problems and guides personnel to their solution
• Creates a working climate that provides growth and job satisfaction of personnel
• Accurately and promptly implements physicians' orders
• Supports and enforces infection-control policies and procedures
• Maintains a professional approach with confidentiality
• Cooperates and maintains good rapport with nursing staff, medical staff, other departments, and visitors
• Obtains and documents nursing history from the patient and/or significant other that is comprehensive of present condition and prior problems
• Performs basic assessment of the patient, indicating adequate knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and pathology
• Records vital signs, notes changes, and pursues more-specific investigation as needed
• Assesses for and notifies physician and other appropriate parties of changes in condition
• Uses assessment information to develop a care plan before the end of duty time that communicates enough information for incoming personnel to adequately care for the patient
• Uses care plans as a basis for providing safe and therapeutic care to patients
• Consistently follows established standards, policies, and procedures in providing nursing care
• Accepts accountability for clinical care of assigned patients, including supervision of nonprofessional personnel
• Communicates with the patient and his or her family and other members of the health care team in carrying out the goals of the care plan
• Promotes positive public relations with patients, residents, family members and guests
• Uses tactful, appropriate communications in sensitive and emotional situations
• Use appropriate work place behavior and adhere to dress code at all times #CedarLakeZZ