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Per Diem Rn

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Essential functions/responsibilities:

• Participates as a member of the interdisciplinary team to provide nursing recommendations related to the individuals overall plan of care.
• Monitors and coordinates the delivery of preventive and routine health care for individuals with developmental disabilities.
• Adheres to and ensures facility compliance with all physicians, np, pa, etc. orders.
• Ensures adequate scheduling and completion of health-related exams, appointments, laboratory/diagnostic testing as ordered or required.
• Accompanies individuals on appointments, if deemed necessary.
• Assists the site management in the coordination of medical program needs with community services, medical providers and other related agencies.
• Coordinates and provides health services training for staff.
• Completes nursing responsibilities as indicated on the nursing responsibility checklist for residential programs.
• Monitors for completion of delegated health related tasks to direct support staff and lpns.
• Based upon the independent judgment of the rn, the rn has the authority to suspend and/or revoke the responsibility of a direct support staff or lpn to perform or complete any delegated task.
• Monitors medication administration in the facility.
• Flexes schedule to provide medication practicums as required by regulation for direct support staff and lpn as needed or deemed necessary by rn supervisor.
• Supervises medication administration responsibilities completed by direct support staff and lpns, and ensures that staff who are passing medications are current in their certification.
• Evaluates staff medication errors.
• Ensures that the plan of correction and retraining follows the medication error point system.
• Based upon the independent judgment of the rn, the rn has the authority to suspend and/or revoke medication certifications and medication administration of the direct support staff or lpn.
• Completes a thorough semi-annual medication review (non-icf) or ensures a pharmacist completes a quarterly medication review.
• Updates the plans of nursing services as health status and diagnosis change.
• Within each month, completes a monthly breast exam on female individuals if ordered.
• Utilizes technology and software approved by the agency to provide care planning and documentation related to individual care.
• Provides phone triage to sites on caseload during working hours.
• Flexes schedule to provide services to individuals/sites as deemed necessary by the rn supervisor.
• Participates in various nursing workgroups as assigned.
• Maintains compliance with all applicable state/federal regulations and agency policy and procedure.
• Communicates issues and carries out all directives from nursing administration.
• Presents to the assigned site when notified that state or federal survey has arrived.
• Participates in any plan of correction related to medical citations resulting from any internal or external survey.
• Maintains communication with lpn (as applicable), senior residential supervisor, residential managers, service coordination, nursing supervisor, and other staff as necessary.
• Provides nursing coverage to all people inc programs as directed by nursing administration.
• Maintains cpr certification and performs cpr when necessary.
• Provides agency training related to nursing services as required.
• Complies with all agency policies and procedures.
• Other duties as assigned by nursing administration.

Minimum qualifications:

• current nys license to practice as a registered nurse.
• driver's license that meets agency policy.
• cpr certification.
• physical agility and ability to react to emergency situations, including strategies for crisis intervention and prevention (scip-r) certification as per regulatory guidelines.
• ability to meet physical requirements of the position when performing the following: standing, walking, sitting, bending, stooping, squatting, kneeling and climbing.

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