Nurse Coordinator

Description

Come Join our Team!

We are seeking a Nurse Coordinator to support coordinated, person-centered care in a Assisted Living location. Nurse Coordinator is responsible for ensuring the general well-being of the tenants through the delivery of high quality services in a manner that is consistent with the philosophy of assisted living and complies with applicable state laws and regulations. He/she is responsible to coordinate the plan of care for all tenants with the tenant associates.

Responsibilities

1. Provide quality tenant care. Motivate, train, and assist with evaluating staff to ensure the provision of quality care to the tenants in a manner that is consistent with the philosophy of assisted living.

2. Assist with ongoing tenant assessments & screenings, medication assistance & administration, setting up plan of care and making quarterly revisions. Conducts team meetings regularly with tenant associates to implement changes in tenant services. 3. Assist with orientation of new tenants to the facility.

4. Demonstrate an appreciation of the values and tradition of the Jewish faith and an understanding of the aging process.

5. Assist in investigating tenant and employee incident reports, identifies safety hazards, and institutes corrective action in a timely manner. Shares in the responsibility for providing and maintaining an environment that is conducive to the safety and physical and emotional well being of the tenants and personnel.

6. Monitors and maintains records reflecting tenants' physical and mental condition. Reports significant changes to Director, RN supervisor if applicable, tenants' physician and/or families. Performs yearly and quarterly evaluations on tenants or as needed when changes are noted.

7. Coordinates tenant/family teaching/inservices, assists on outings as needed, including delegating staff to assist on outings.

8. Assist director in policy & procedure changes and form development for tenant evaluations.

9. The Nurse Coordinator will assume call coverage when the Director is out of town/on vacation.

10. Ongoing training of tenant associates and nursing staff and delegation of dues within the employee’s scope of practice.

11. Monitors responsibilities of tenant associates and changes as necessary. Assist with scheduling and securing coverage as necessary.

Benefits include: 

• Free JCC Membership
• 403(b) Retirement plan with company match after one year
• Health, Dental and Vision
• Supplemental insurances
• PTO

*Must be able to pass a drug test and background check. 

Requirements

• Must be a licensed nurse possessing experience in geriatrics and demonstrating good assessment skills and experience in medication administration.
• Should possess excellent people skills and ability to relate to high functioning seniors in a caring, sensitive, professional manner as well as dealing with seniors as level of functioning decreases.