Residential/Quality Registered Nurse (Huntsville/Madison, AL)
Ability Plus Inc
- Huntsville, AL
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Completes audits and related reports as assigned for quality purposes.
- Attends the monthly Incident Reporting Committee meeting.
- Contributes ideas and strategies for quality and improvement.
- Completes and updates nursing care plans as scheduled annually and with any significant change.
- Administers prescribed medications; Manages delivery and administration processes; Completes medical treatments as ordered.
- Monitors client's physical condition; Evaluates and records significant signs and symptoms deviating from normal established parameters; Coordinates physician referrals and orders, as appropriate.
- Applies critical thinking skills to affect focused nursing interventions and improved outcomes.
- Takes temperature, pulse, blood pressure, and other physical assessment skills to detect deviations from normal accepted parameters and provides individualized care based on needs assessment.
- Directs and delegates training and supervision of personnel rendering direct medical care to consumers within assigned region.
- Facilitates and monitor employee performance and competency and recertification skills. Delegates and provides medication administration and documentation pursuant with state guidelines.
- Carries out documented company operational procedures, policies, and standards associated with this position.
- Recommends changes/improvements to existing operational procedure documents.
- Creates/complete activity reports to reflect progress and status in attaining patient health objectives and revise objectives and plans in accordance with current conditions.
- Provides skilled nursing care. Assumes emergency call as assigned.
- Supervises supports and evaluates ongoing performance of direct service personnel.
- Reporting as required in Therap