Charge Nurse Leader (RN/LPN) — Patient Care

Fiesta Park Wellness and Rehabilitation; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Fiesta Park Wellness & Rehabilitation is seeking a Charge Nurse (RN or LPN) to lead nursing care in a resident unit. You will plan, organize, and direct nursing functions, assign staff by skill, and ensure safety and high-quality care.

Responsibilities include implementing physicians' orders promptly, maintaining infection-control standards, documenting history and vital signs, and collaborating with the care team to develop effective care plans.

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

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Ability to understand, remember and 0

Education

Current RN or LPN license

Job description

Fiesta Park Wellness & Rehabilitation is seeking a Charge Nurse (RN or LPN) to lead nursing care in a resident unit. You will plan, organize, and direct nursing functions, assign staff by skill, and ensure safety and high-quality care.

Responsibilities include implementing physicians' orders promptly, maintaining infection-control standards, documenting history and vital signs, and collaborating with the care team to develop effective care plans.