Job Type
Full-time
Description
Charge Nurse (RN) Full Time Facility: Medilodge of Zeeland
Starting Wages: $49.40-$57.52 per hour
Sign-On Bonus: $1,500 for Full-Time Employees (two-year payout, limited time availability)
Shift: 6PM-6AM or 6AM-6PM with every other weekend rotation
Requirements
Qualifications: Education: - Graduate of accredited RN School of Nursing.
Licenses/Certification: - Valid RN license in the state employed.
- Valid CPR certification.
Experience: - One year of nursing experience preferred.
Job Functions: - Initiates and leads team conferences in development of individualized nursing care plans.
- Assesses and documents the resident's condition and nursing needs.
- Accurately and promptly implements physicians' orders.
- Assigns nursing care to team members in accordance with the resident's needs and the person's capabilities and qualifications.
- Supervises, directs and evaluates LPNs and CNAs.
- Administers medications, starts IVs and performs treatments for assigned residents, and documents that treatment as required company, and local, state and federal rules and regulations.
- Participates in orientation and in-service training for personnel.
- Assists physicians with special tests and procedures within the scope of state specified Nursing Practice Act.
- Ensures that supplies are utilized economically and that equipment is clean and maintained in a safe manner.
- Reports and records pertinent observations and reactions regarding residents.
- Coordinates nursing care of residents when scheduled for therapy or procedures by other departments.
- Interviews applicants and recommends hires. Participates in counseling, disciplinary action, and termination of staff, to extent permitted by state practice act.
- Supervises nursing unit, which includes scheduling and directing the nursing staff to extent permitted by state practice act.
- Performs other tasks as assigned.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: - Skilled in directing and motivating the workforce.
- Ability to work cooperatively as a member of a team.
- Ability to communicate effectively with residents and their family members, and at all levels of the organization.
- Ability to react decisively and quickly in emergency situations.
- Knowledge of training techniques for clinical staff.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality.
