Details
Posted: 01-Jan-25
Location: Margaretville, New York
Categories:
General Nursing
Summary of Job Purpose
- The RCC is responsible to maintain the nursing philosophy, objectives, and standards of quality nursing care; and ensure compliance with standards, codes, rules and regulations, and the policies set-forth by Mountainside.
Essential Job Responsibilities Administrative functions:
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- Notifies the Director of Nursing and Administrator on call as required.
- Participates actively with IDT and follows-through on actions determined by the Team.
- Is responsible for every resident in the facility.
- Serves as a resident advocate and ensures resident rights are maintained.
- Supports the medical staff.
- Works collaboratively with all departments at Mountainside and MMH.
- Works with staff in the planning of the unit's services, programs, and activities.
- Ensures consistency between both floors in nursing care.
- Ensures staff comply with polices and standards of care.
- Ensures completeness of Accident and Incident reports.
- Promotes mission and values of Mountainside.
- Serves as a leader and resource for nursing staff.
- Participates in investigations as assigned.
- Ensures safe quality care is provided to the resident's daily, and essential information is communicated to provide appropriate continuity of care from admission to discharge.
- Is a liaison with residents, families, and other departments to adequately plan for and provide resident care.
- Guides RN Supervisors and LPN Nurse Managers responsibilities.
- Ensures accurate, appropriate, and complete documentation by all nursing staff.
Care Plan, Kardex,MDS, and Assessment
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- Ensures accuracy of each.
- Completes timely as assigned.
- Effectively communicates the plan of care.
- Ensures that resident care plan is followed.
Communication:
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- Uses communication to enhance quality of resident care and staff working environment.
- Ensures appropriate and ongoing communication to the resident, family, staff, MD, IDT, etc.
- Holds regularly scheduled staff meetings - on all shifts for CNA's and LPN's (forwarding written documentation to the DON).
Personnel/Staff Development
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- Responsible for employee evaluations, employee praise, and discipline as necessary.
- Promotes an environment of learning.
- Actively participates with staff education.
- Ensures staff attends mandatory in services and meets minimum continuing education requirements.
- Conducts routine staff audits to ensure care is being delivered per care plan and medical staff orders.
- Ensures work consistency among staff.
- Promotes a positive, friendly work environment.
Equipment and Supplies:
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- Ensures appropriate are available and monitors that supplies are utilized appropriately to avoid waste.
- Is cost-effective.
- Works with DON to obtain supplies or equipment not stocked.
Policy and Procedure Manuals:
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- Ensures nursing manual is kept up to date and reflects current nursing practices.
- Ensures other manuals are available and up to date for staff (e.g. MSDS, emergency protocols).
Quality Assurance:
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- Constantly strives to enhance the resident and staff experience.
- Reports quality indicators at committee meetings. Based on findings, implements actions for areas needing improvement.
- Determines quality indicator monitors.
- Reports and completes necessary paperwork for each resident incident/accident/change in condition.
Safety/Infection Control:
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- Ensures staff compliance with standards and regulations.
- Reports potential outbreaks and takes appropriate measures to control/eliminate infection control exposures.
Staffing Coverage
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- Required to ensure appropriate coverage for the nursing department 24/7, including weekends, holidays, and off-shifts.
- Is RN on-call when there is not an RN in-house.
- Works a variety of hours to monitor care of residents on off shifts.
- Is available to staff on all shifts to ensure 24/7 continuity of care.
- Works beyond normal working hours, or in other positions temporarily when necessary (e.g. administers medications).
- Is subject to callback during emergency conditions.
Other specific requirements:
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- Must have patience, tact, a cheerful disposition, and be enthusiastic.
- Must work harmoniously with others.
- Seeks out new methods and principles to incorporate into the nursing practice.
- Creates and maintains an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest, positive emphasis, as well as a calm environment.
- Able to make independent decisions and is self-motivated.
- Able to plan, organize, develop, implement, and interpret the programs, goals, objectives, policies and procedures necessary to provide quality care.
- Promotes teamwork and collaboration among Mountainside staff members.
Ongoing education
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- Must continually strive to enhance knowledge, and ensure evidenced-based nursing is being practiced.
- Must attend an out-of-facility continuing education seminar at least annually to maintain RCC position (approved by DON).
Other job duties as assigned. Essential Job Qualifications
Education:
- Graduate of an accredited school of professional nursing as a RN
Experience:
- 1-year supervisory experience, 2 years clinical experience, acute care experience preferred
Training/License:
Other:
- BLS, basic computer skills
About Us:
Mountainside Residential Care Center
Join the team at Mountainside Residential Care Center, our award-winning 82-bed enhanced care facility. We have received a 5-Star rating from Medicare's "Nursing Home Compare" and 5-star ratings in U.S. News & World Report's Best Nursing Homes 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 issues. Not only is Mountainside Residential Care Center rated as one of the top nursing homes nationwide for providing excellence in care -- we are also setting the pace for outstanding care and quality services.
Benefits:
We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package that includes:
- Health Insurance
- Dental
- Vision
- Retirement Savings Plan
- Flexible Savings Account
- Paid Time Off
- Holidays
- Tuition Reimbursement
