Charge Nurse RN

Registered Nurse - Charge RN

• Full-Time and Part-Time positions available
• 7a-7p and 7p-7a
• Competitive Salary - New Hire Rate
• Personnel Benefits for Full-Time (3 shifts per week) employees
• Flexible schedule
• Convenient Location right off 195 - 1 mile from Taunton Ave. Exit.

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All applicants must possess applicable license and/or certifications, state and federal regulatory requirements, as well as our professional experience and references requirements.
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Job Purpose:
Promotes and restores patients' health by completing the nursing process; collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary team members; providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families; supervising assigned team members.

Duties:
•Identifies patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a position to understand care requirements.
•Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.
•Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals; teaching patient, friends, and family to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills; answering questions.
•Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments; following hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations.
•Resolves patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.
•Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations; calling for assistance from health care support personnel.
•Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.
•Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.
•Maintains continuity among nursing teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs.
•Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.
•Ensures operation of equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements; following manufacturer's instructions; troubleshooting malfunctions; calling for repairs; maintaining equipment inventories; evaluating new equipment and techniques.
•Maintains nursing supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed supplies; placing and expediting orders for supplies; verifying receipt of supplies; using equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish job results.
•Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
•Maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information; responding to requests; building rapport; participating in team problem-solving methods.
•Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Skills/Qualifications:
Clinical Skills, Bedside Manner, Infection Control, Nursing Skills, Physiological Knowledge, Administering Medication, Medical Teamwork, Multi-tasking, Listening, Verbal Communication, Health Promotion and Maintenance

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Harris Health Center is a family owned and operated skilled nursing facility that has provided quality care in a homelike environment since 1958. Evelyn C. Harris founded Harris Health Center to fill the need for compassionate, quality care for elderly Rhode Island families.

Through three generations of quality care, Harris Health Center has maintained its ability to offer the most advanced medical care available in a small, personable environment. Harris Health Center has become known among local health providers as a competent and comprehensive source of rehabilitative and complex medical care. Conveniently located in the heart of East Providence, the Harris family invites those in need of nursing home care to schedule a tour to discover all that Harris Health Center has to offer.