Nurse: RN and LVN; Fontana, California
We are a center providing senior adult day health services.
**LOOKING FOR RETIREES AND NEW GRADUATES!
Bilingual in Mandarin Chinese 中文 or Spanish español preferred and big plus.
JOB DESCRIPTION
The Nurse is a full-time/part-time position providing nursing care to center participants and responsible for nursing services. The position reports to the Program Director.
- Assess each participant initially and subsequently to determine needs for nursing, personal care and assistance in activities of daily living such as bathing, grooming, toileting and eating, include these needs in the plan of care and supervise the provision of these services.
- Develop the plan of care in collaboration with the participant’s identified goals and/or concerns.
- Completing at a minimum, quarterly and six-month reassessments, which includes evaluating and reviewing the progress made towards the participant’s identified goal(s) collaboratively with participant and updating the plan of care as needed or desired by the participant and the collaborative process.
- Attending and participating in all the multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings.
- Preparing an individual plan of care for each participant if nursing and/or personal care services are to be provided.
- Administering medications to participants and monitoring these medications, assessing a participant’s ability to self-administer medications and providing training and monitoring any participants who administer their own medications.
- Providing all nursing care specified in the participant plans of care.
- Providing observation and monitoring of the participants’ health status.
- Providing health education and counseling to the participants and their families, when indicated in their plans of care.
- Supervising the personal care services provided to the participants by the program aides.
- Supervising any maintenance program(s) designated to be under the supervision of the RN.
- Developing the plans of care for participants capable of benefiting from a continence-training program.
- Assisting participants in obtaining medical services from providers other than the adult day health center staff.
- Acting as a liaison to the participants’ personal physicians and notifying them of any marked changes in the participants’ conditions.
- Providing emergency care, including arrangements for transportation when necessary.
- May serve as a member of the Utilization Review Committee.
- Providing dietary counseling and nutrition education to participants who are not on a therapeutic/special diet.
- Maintaining the nursing component of the participant health records.
- Maintenance and supervision of all drug supplies and medications stored at the center and recording all these medications.
- Destruction of any drugs which have expired or been left in the center 30 days after the participant’s last visit.
- The RN is on duty full-time during the hours the center provides required services and reports to the Program Director.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Pay: $30.00 - $50.00 per hour
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Standard shift:
Weekly schedule:
Work Location: In person