Registered Nurse (RN) Job West Frankfort, IL PETERSEN HEALTH CARE

Petersen Health Care - West Frankfort, IL

Full-time

West Frankfort, IL

Nursing and Residential Care Facilities

About the position

The Registered Nurse (RN) at Petersen Health Care is a vital healthcare professional responsible for providing comprehensive nursing care to residents. This role involves assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating resident care while ensuring effective communication and collaboration with interdisciplinary teams. The RN is also tasked with directing personnel and adapting care to meet the individual needs of residents and their families during health and illness.

Responsibilities

• Completes the nursing admission assessment on admission or assigned residents per procedure utilizing proper techniques, tools and history.
• Utilizes the admission assessment for information in caring for each resident as assigned.
• Makes appropriate situational decisions with information received from assessments.
• Notifies and consults with physicians and supervisors.
• Makes appropriate referrals or social service contacts.
• Consults with other departments as required or needed.
• Initiates a nursing care plan on each assigned admission based on nursing assessments and identification of nursing problems.
• Reviews physician orders on assigned residents prior to care and requests physician's orders when appropriate to plan resident's care.
• Encourages participation of residents/families in plans of care.
• Integrates therapeutic plans of care in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
• Executes procedures consistent with interdisciplinary nursing care plans, the regulatory manual and the Petersen Health Care Policy and Procedures Manuals that are within the scope of the role of the RN.
• Consistently demonstrates proficiency in skills applicable to nursing.
• Provides for the safety and security needs of assigned residents through appropriate explanations and use of restraints.
• Maintains communication devices and provides basic comfort care measures including pain control.
• Utilizes all techniques of infection control appropriately.
• Provides for the psycho-social needs of residents by anticipating fears and listening to resident/family anxieties.
• Coordinates development of a realistic comprehensive resident/family education plan in conjunction with the interdisciplinary team.
• Reviews plans of care of assigned residents on a day-to-day basis updating as necessary when outcomes cannot be realized or problems arise.
• Obtains pertinent data in an objective and professional manner by interviewing residents/families and seeking information from physicians appropriately.
• Communicates pertinent information and seeks assistance regarding resident care throughout the tour of duty and at change of shift.
• Articulates and utilizes factual data for problem solving in a positive and cooperative manner.
• Contributes constructively in staff meetings and Resident Care Conferences.
• Documents clearly and completely the various aspects of the nursing process on medical records and other appropriate forms.
• Identifies areas appropriate for change and facilitates the change process in a positive manner.

Requirements

• Be of legal working age.
• Be able to read and follow written directions.
• Be able to communicate with residents and co-workers in English.
• Must possess the ability to deal tactfully with personnel, residents, family members, visitors, government agencies/personnel and the general public.
• Work overtime as necessary.
• Must possess a general knowledge and understanding of state and federal laws as they pertain to long term care.
• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Current license in good standing in the state in which the facility is located.
• Must have the current federally required vaccines or proof of a valid exemption.