Clearview | Clearview
198 County Road DF
Juneau, WI 53039, USA
Description
Status: Full Time, Exempt
Starting Wage Range: $40.98/hr. - $45.16/hr.
Position Open Until Filled
Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm
Dodge County offers a generous benefits package including:
- Paid Time Off (PTO) - available for use after 30 days of employment
- 10 observed paid holidays
- Health Savings Account (HSA) - with employer contributions - HRA
- Life insurance, Long-term disability, Short-term disability and Flex spending
- Participation in the Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS) - an exceptional pension plan with employer match (upon vesting) and lifetime retirement payment.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Provides leadership in attracting, retaining and developing an engaged workforce in the delivery of superior nursing services to residents and families.
- Directs the work of and manages unit staff. Provides training, instructions, and ongoing training needs. Assigns tasks, reviews work and prepares performance evaluations. Provides staff coaching/counseling. Recommends employee transfers, disciplinary action, and discharge.
- Provides leadership and management to all assigned staff.
- Identifies staff development needs and recommends to DON/ADON.
- Directs resident care and supervision of staff providing direct care, including passing medication, providing treatment, and assessment; collaborates with outside healthcare providers and interdisciplinary team; advises/instructs Nurses, Aides, dietary workers, and unit clerks.
- Coordinates the Minimum Data Set (MDS) process; schedules MDS assessments/care planning process - including collaboration with therapy providers; oversees completion of the Care Plans by the Interdisciplinary Team.
- Assesses residents and gathers data for coding of MDS and care planning; delegates assessments to nurses as needed and sets up charting to capture care provided by staff; ensures accurate coding.
- Assists in the development of an interdisciplinary care plan to ensure the resident's physical and psychosocial needs are met; ensures the care plan remains appropriate - goals are attainable/allowing resident to be as involved in their care as possible, to attain their highest practicable level of functioning; oversees implementation of care plans.
- Reviews charting daily - surveilling for potential infectious processes; ensures appropriate measures/precautions are taken to prevent spread of infections; logs infections and completes reports for Quality Assurance; collaborates with Public Health as needed for outbreak reporting, logging/submitting reportable data to State/Federal Government through CDC database.
- Conducts resident and family conferences and provides updates, changes in condition, and instruction or education.
- Collaborates with physicians, consultants, community agencies, and institutions to improve the quality of services and to resolve identified problems.
- Plans and assists with discharge instructions and follow-up appointments, therapy instructions, etc.
- Monitors the infection control program designed to provide a safe, sanitary, and comfortable environment designed to prevent the growth and transmission of disease and infection.
- Participates in the developing, maintaining, and updating of written policies and procedures pertaining to nursing services.; revises procedures accordingly.
- Communicates and interprets policies and procedures to nursing staff, and monitors staff practices and implementation.
- Participates in daily or weekly management team meetings to discuss resident status, census changes, personnel, or resident complaints or concerns.
- Assists with staffing various units; makes needed adjustments; answers phone calls and directs as needed.
- Assists with the preparation for inspection surveys, instructing staff on matters of conduct and disclosure, being interviewed by inspectors, immediate corrections of problems noted by surveyors, etc. Reviews and reinforces important standards previously cited.
- Participates in the preparation of the Plan of Correction response to an inspection survey and implements any follow-up QA required.
- Monitors incident reports, investigations, safety programs, etc.
- Performs other duties as assigned.