As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery.
Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.
To be successful in this role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.
- LEARNING ABOUT THE PERSON SUPPORTED
- Builds a positive rapport with people by learning their wants, needs, and desires
- Provides oversight of the healthcare needs to people supported as assigned
- Provides healthcare consults and/or assessments as deemed necessary by the interdisciplinary team
- Provides healthcare plans and assists people to maintain/achieve their desired healthcare goals
- Uses the person’s plan, Personal Outcome Measures/Basic Assurance information and other assessments to learn about each person’s goals and dreams. Supports each person to direct their own services, achieve their goals and dreams, and remove barriers that hinder the accomplishment of the person’s goals and dreams
- Ensures people supported are involved in their own healthcare decisions
- SPECIFIC JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provides oversight to the health and medical needs for the people on his/her caseload
- Coordinates all medical appointments for assigned caseload which may include general health, dental, psychiatric, vision, OT/PT, etc.
- Maintains appropriate documentation in medical records
- Ensures appropriate medications and MARs are current and up to date at each site
- Participates in interdisciplinary team meetings and provides guidance and medical recommendations for each person supported on his/her caseload
- Facilitates communication with medical professionals, pharmacies, and other relevant medical resources
- Assists people to advocate on behalf of themselves which includes making their own doctor appointments, choosing their own doctors, and being involved in their own self-medication administration
- Ensures responsiveness with all incident management matters for each person on their caseload (i.e., bruises of unknown origin, med errors, etc.)
- Provides training to people supported and employees on relevant medical topics
- Provides training and guidance to LPNs
- Trains staff on med certification and annual education as assigned
- Provides input on the agency Medical Administration Manual, medication certification expectations, medication administration practices and other agency medical procedures
- Participates in quarterly North Dakota nursing meetings as assigned.
- Analyzes healthcare data for each person on his/her caseload and recommends changes as needed
- Conducts health services audits, reviews, and observations to ensure optimal health care supports are in place
- INTEGRATION AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT
- Supports and assists people to remain connected to their natural supports (family, close friends, boyfriend, girlfriend, etc.)
- Maintains a valid driver’s license, vehicle insurance, and has access to a vehicle
- HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE OF THE PERSON SUPPORTED
- Learns about the best possible health needs (including physical and mental health) for the person you are supporting, including knowledge of medications taken by the person and the effects of the medications
- Maintains current First Aid and CPR certification
- Assists people to have a safe and clean environment in which to live and work
- FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT OF DEPARTMENT
- Uses department’s procurement (P) card appropriately
- SYSTEM ADVOCACY
- Assists and supports people to learn about their rights, due process, and fair treatment
- Ensures people we support are free of abuse, neglect, mistreatment and exploitation. This includes providing support, dignity and respect during any sensitive situation/conversation
- Serve as a personal advocate for people and teach members of the community to treat people we support with dignity and respect through respectful communication and interactions
- Advocate with employers, community members, families and other stakeholders to develop needed supports and services.
