Bay Shore Services, Inc.
Job Description
Job Title: Registered Nurse
Department: Nursing
Reports To: Administrator
Summary: Manages, supervises, and coordinates the nursing clinical care required for eligible people by performing the following duties personally or through subordinate staff.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
Provides and supervises clinical care services.
Selects, schedules, assigns, trains, and evaluates staff.
Orients and trains new staff.
Conducts education programs related to patient care and identifying health concerns.
Coordinates clinical activities and work assignments of staff members.
Evaluates clinical activities to ensure consumer care, staff relations, and service efficiency.
Provide nursing assessments for all consumers.
Observes and instructs the nursing care of clinical staff members to ensure that nursing care and treatment are administered in accordance with physician instructions and program regulations.
Develops, implements, and evaluates clinical procedures, goals, and objectives.
Participates in infection control, care planning, utilization review, case management, and quality assessment activities and analysis.
Interprets and enforces department and agency policies and good practice standards.
Performs chart audits and makes modifications as needed.
Coordinates clinical services with other medical professionals.
Keeps informed on special orders concerning consumers.
Orders or directs ordering of drugs, solutions, and equipment and maintains records on narcotics.
Refers unusual problems to supervisor.
Documents all services, treatments, medications, professional orders, therapies, staff intervention, etc.
Reviews care records, staff notes, treatment records, medical reports, etc.
Supervisory Responsibilities: Manage subordinate staff. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees, planning assigning and directing work, appraising performance, rewarding and disciplining employees, addressing complaints and resolving problems.
Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Customer Service: Manages difficult or emotional customer situations, responds promptly to customer needs, solicits customer feedback to improve service, responds to requests for service and assistance, meets commitments
Interpersonal Skills: Focuses on solving conflict, not blaming; maintains confidentiality, listens to others without interrupting, keeps emotions under control, remains open to others ideas and tries new things
Oral Communication: Speaks clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations, listens and gets clarification, responds well to questions, demonstrates group presentation skills, participates in meetings
Written Communication: Writes clearly and informatively, edits work for spelling and grammar, varies writing style to meet needs, presents numerical data effectively, able to read and interpret written information
Teamwork: Balances team and individual responsibilities, exhibits objectivity and openness to others’ views, gives and welcomes feedback, contributes to building a positive team spirit, puts success of team above own interests, able to build morale and group commitments to goals and objectives, supports everyone’s efforts to succeed
Visionary Leadership: Displays passion and optimism, inspires respect and trust, mobilizes others to fulfill the vision, provides vision and inspiration to peers and subordinates
Change Management: Develops workable implementation plans, communicates changes effectively, builds commitment and overcomes resistance, prepares and supports those affected by change, monitors transition and evaluates results
Delegation: Delegates work assignments, matches the responsibility to the person, gives authority to work independently, sets expectations and monitors delegated activities, provides recognition for results
Leadership: Exhibits confidence in self and others, inspires and motivates others to perform well, effectively influence actions and opinions of others, accepts feedback from others, gives appropriate recognition to others
Other Skills and Abilities: Knowledge of people with disabilities and chronic long-term illness. Some knowledge of post-operative care, post-operative dental care preferred
Driver’s Licenses and Proof of Insurance:
A valid driver’s license, with less than 4 points, and proof of insurance are required for this position.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
Individual Professional Liability Insurance, current CPR certification, RN license
Other Qualifications:
This position requires reliable transportation, pre-employment and random drug screenings, criminal background check, annual TB test, and travel, pre-employment, and random drug testing. Weekend and evening work may be required. Current CPR and First Aid certification and bloodborne pathogen training documentation.
Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, feel, or handle, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, talk or hear, and taste or smell. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds to 100 pounds maximum patient transfer. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, outside weather conditions, and risk of radiation. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. The employee is frequently exposed to bloodborne pathogens and communicable diseases.
Pay: $41.00 - $41.25 per hour
Benefits:
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Vision insurance
Education:
- High school or equivalent (Required)
Experience:
- Nursing: 2 years (Preferred)
License/Certification:
- BLS Certification (Preferred)
- RN (Preferred)
Work Location: In person
