RN/LPN - FT (24 Hours) - Countryside - Nights

Job description

Description Job Summary: Responsible for providing high-quality, direct patient care in the Countryside Care and Rehabilitation department. Responsible for pleasant and effective communication with the patients, with coworkers, supervisors and the public. Duties and Responsibilities: · Ability to follow established standards of nursing practices and implement facility policies and procedures. · Ability to conduct patient rounds daily, reporting problems to nursing supervisor and initiating corrective action. · Ability to identify patients problems and emergency situations and initiate immediate "life saving" measures in the absence of a physician. · Ability to follow, supervise and evaluate the implementation of a Patient's Rights Program. · Ability to attend staff meeting, in-service classes and committee meetings as assigned. · Ability to complete report for facility committees as assigned. · Ability to perform and document comprehensive assessment of each patient. · Ability to follow facility discharge/transfer procedure and coordinate discharge/transfer with other departments, physicians and ancillary service providers. · Ability to assess patient needs and initiate development...