RN C.N.A instructor / floor nurse

Employment Type:
Full timeShift:
Day Shift

Description:

RN Instructor / floor nurse hybrid (Long Term Care Sub-Acute) - Our Lady on Mercy Life Center - Guilderland, NY

If you are looking for a unique RN position, to meet your schedule as full time, this could be your opportunity. Here at St. Peter's Health Partner's, we care for more people in more places.

Our Lady of Mercy Life Center is committed to providing quality services with the outstanding compassion for which St. Peter's is renowned. Our well-trained staff's devotion to our residents leads to better outcomes and higher ratings in resident and family satisfaction surveys.

Divided into four units of 40 residents each, four private rooms and 18 semiprivate rooms, Our Lady strives to maintain the intimacy of a homelike setting. To help foster a sense of community and friendship among the residents, each unit has its own distinctively decorated dining room.

Position Highlights:

• Top Class Care: Facility ranked in the top of nursing homes nationally in 2020 and 2021
• Quality of Life: Where career opportunities and quality of life converge
• Advancement: Strong orientation program, tuition assistance and career development
• Work/Life: Leadership team tries to be as accommodating with schedule as possible
• Flexible schedule: Work schedule has some flexibility as team understand real world hurdles
• Unique / hybrid role: This is a new position built to help accommodate training the C.N.A program when in session and assisting on the floor when not
• Team engagement: Leadership team engaged on the floor and utilizes team suggestions for innovative decision making
• No mandating: Team does not mandate their nursing staff
• Close to home: Location that is an easy commute from Schenectady, Rotterdam, Albany and Latham

What you will do:

• As C.N.A instructor will be responsible for implementing the facility's training program in accordance with the facility's policies and procedures and State and Federal Requirements. As floor nurse will be responsible and accountable to utilizing the nursing process to diagnose and treat human responses to actual or potential problems of individuals or groups.

Responsibilities:

• Teach Certified Nursing Assistant Program clinical courses in a manner consistent with the established curriculum.
• Supervises students in clinical settings.
• Evaluate and assess mastery of knowledge and skills through administration and grading of examinations, assignments, skills assessments, and clinical evaluations.
• Ensures rules and/or policies governing student conduct and standards of behavior are maintained in all academic settings.
• Require satisfactory performance of all critical knowledge and skills to ensure students are competent before performing health care related activities.
• Prepare students for the NYS Cert. Nurse Aid Exam composed of both computer based written exam and a clinical skills exam monitored by a registered nurse evaluator. Deliver and facilitate training to address all areas of care rendered to a given population (i.e. geriatric) within the scope of practice of a Certified Nurse Aide. This will encompass biological, psychological and social elements at a beginning level in a health care setting where aides are employed.
• Admission assessment consistent with guidelines and interview resident/significant others to complete health history
• Utilize resources to assess residents with conditions that are new, unfamiliar or not commonly seen on unit
• Interpret overt/covert assessment data to determine when resident is at acute psychological and/or psychosocial risk then report and record the interpretation
• Inform and educate resident what care or service is to be provided
• Develop and contribute to a plan of care based on potentially existing problems, expected resident response and the medical plan of care
• Communicate the plan of care by using methods that include action plans, goals and time frames

What you will need:

Required:

• A current license to practice as a Registered Nurse (RN) in the State of New York
• Associate's degree in nursing or Degree of Nursing from an accredited school
• 1 year or more of experience in a skilled nursing setting as a RN
• Demonstrated ability to teach adult learners as evidenced and documented by at least one of the following is required;
  • Completion of a professionally recognized course in teaching adult learners or New York State Education Department teacher certification
  • Two (2) years of experience teaching nursing or nursing related programs to adults in an academic setting approved by the Stated Education Department or other recognized accrediting body
  • Two (2) years of experience teaching nurse aides in a nursing home.

Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree of nursing
• Registered Nurses at Our Lady of Mercy must possess a passion for caring for patients and demonstrate a respectful, caring, professional demeanor
• The RN must have excellent time management and organizational skills
• The RN must be able to communicate effectively, verbally and written and possess strong critical thinking skills to problem solve

Trinity Health's Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health employs about 133,000 colleagues at dozens of hospitals and hundreds of health centers in 22 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.

Trinity Health's dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.