RN- Per Diem

Poway Healthcare Center in; Poway (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Poway Healthcare Center is seeking a nursing leader to supervise the day-to-day nursing activities during tours of duty, ensuring care quality and adherence to federal, state, and local standards.

The role includes directing nursing functions, maintaining current policies, reporting to the Director of Nursing Services, and participating in quality assurance and committee activities to coordinate resident care.

Qualifications

Responsibilities

• Supervise the day-to-day nursing activities during the tour of duty in accordance with federal, state, and local standards and regulations.
• Assist in directing day-to-day nursing functions and ensure policies and procedures are current and followed.
• Maintain nursing service procedures and ensure staff compliance with the Nursing Service Procedures Manual.
• Provide written and oral reports to the Director of Nursing Services and participate in reviews and revisions of policies and procedures.
• Participate in quality assurance activities and coordinate nursing services with other resident services.
• Plan and participate in the discharge planning process and in staff development.
• Attend committee meetings such as Infection Control, Policy Advisory, Pharmaceutical, and Quality Assessment as required.

Job description

The primary responsibility of your job position is to supervise the day-to-day nursing activities of the facility during your tour of duty. Such supervision must be accordance with current federal, state, and local standards, guidelines and regulations that govern the facility and may be required by the Director of Nursing (DON)and or/Assistant Director of Nursing (ADON) when applicable, to ensure that the highest degree of quality care is maintained at all times.

Every effort has been made to identify the essential functions of this position. However, it in no way states or implies that these are the only duties you will be required to perform. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or is an essential function of the position.

Administrative Functions

• Assist the Director of Nursing Services in directing the day-to-day functions of the nursing activities in accordance with current rules, regulations, and guidelines that govern the long-term care facility.
• Participate in developing, maintaining, and updating written policies and procedures that govern the day-to-day functions of the nursing service department.
• Ensure that reference material (i.e., PDR'S, regulations, professional standards of practice, etc.) maintained at the nurses' stations is current. Recommend written material that will assist the nursing service department in meeting the day-to-day needs of the resident.
• Ensure that the Nursing Service Procedures Manual is current and reflects the day-to-day nursing procedures performed in this facility.
• Ensure that all nursing service personnel comply with the procedures set forth in the Nursing Service Procedures Manual.
• Make written and oral reports/recommendations to the Director as necessary/required, concerning the operation of the nursing service department.
• Periodically review the department's policies, procedure manuals, job descriptions, etc. Make recommendations for revisions to the Director.
• Assist in developing methods for coordinating nursing services with other resident services to ensure the continuity of the residents' total regimen of care.
• Ensure that all nursing service personnel are in compliance with their respective job descriptions.
• Participate in the development, maintenance and implementation of the facility's quality assurance program for the nursing service department.
• Participate in facility surveys (inspections) made by authorized government agencies as requested by the Administrator or Director of Nursing Services.
• Periodically review the resident's written discharge plan. Participate in the updating of the resident's written discharge plan as required.
• Assist the Director in planning the nursing services portion of the resident's discharge plan as necessary.
• Meet with the nursing staff, as well as support personnel, in planning the department's services, programs, and activities.
• Admit, transfer, and discharge residents as required.
• Complete accident/incident reports as necessary.
• Interpret the department's policies and procedures to personnel, residents, visitors, and government agencies as required.
• Perform administrative duties such as completing medical forms, reports, evaluations, studies, charting, etc., asnecessary.
• Agree not to disclose assigned user ID code and password for accessing resident/facility information and promptly report suspected or known violations of such disclosure to the Administrator.
• Agree not to disclose resident's protected health information and promptly report suspected or known violations of such disclosure to the Administrator.
• Report any known or suspected unauthorized attempt to access facility's information system.

Committee Functions

• Attend various committee meetings of the facility (i.e., Infection Control, Policy Advisory, Pharmaceutical, Quality Assessment, etc.) as required.