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Registered Nurse - Long Term Care
Location: Watertown, New York
Date Posted: 23 Apr, 2024
Job Duties:
Maintaining accurate, complete health care records and reports.
Administering medications to patients and monitoring them for side effects and reactions.
Prescribing assistive medical devices and related treatments.
Recording patient vital signs and medical information.
Ordering medical diagnostic and clinical tests.
Monitoring, reporting, and recording symptoms or changes in patient conditions.
Administering non-intravenous medications.
Assessing, implementing, planning, or evaluating patient nursing care plans by working with healthcare team members.
Modifying patient health treatment plans as indicated by patient conditions and responses.
272 bed LTC Post acute care
7 units includes
(2 secure dementia units)
Post acute rehab – a lot of pts from hospital (2,3, 5, 7 mix short term rehab )
1 person on 10L Continuous bipap, no vents, no new trachs, tube feeds, foleys, IVs, PICCs, ports, fresh post op hips/knees/ elective surgeries, wound care, neb treatments
No admissions past 3 pm
RN supervisor (they are alone on off shift (nights, weekend, holidays) so they are tending to any acute change like a fall, need to go ER, Head to toe assessment, calling provider, getting them over to ED and LPN
Dementia, Chronic Illnesses, Diabetes, Rehab
PointClick EMR
Requirement:
NY License
BLS (AHA only)
Certification: Basic Life Support
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