Resident Nursing Care

• Works collaboratively with the Nurse Manager, ED, AHS Home Care, Physicians, Registered Nurses and other members of the interdisciplinary team to provide resident care and safety as outlined in the resident care plan
• Consults with the Nurse Manager, residents’ medical doctors or other health care professionals for changes in resident status including issues such as pain management, medication and bereavement services
• Performs various procedures within scope, observes, monitors, reports, and documents change in physical, mental or emotional state to ensure optimal resident care
• Provides care for residents who meet admission criteria and monitors ever changing conditions.
• Leads and guides HCAs with the assessment of each resident and their care givers, establishing and maintaining a plan of care for each resident/family; and communicates status and plan of care with the team
• Provides feedback for resident care conferences including relevant information regarding treatments and procedures
• Understands and applies knowledge of all nursing practice to be consistent with relevant Acts and Regulations, Codes of Ethics, Standards of Practice and approved competencies of the CLPNA Perform all nursing duties with a strong level of understanding of the responsibility for fitness to practice in terms of physical and mental health.
• Administers medication using various routes, monitors continuous subcutaneous infusions and adjusting as deemed necessary/appropriate (includes programming, monitoring and changing)
• Provides support and comfort to residents and families.
• Demonstrates strong level of independence, emotional intelligence, self-awareness and critical thinking skills